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The Justice of Intimidation

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  • Thinker 10 years ago

    Justice Atuguba is a disgrace to the law profession. Shame on him

  • SGT ANANI FIADZOE 10 years ago

    NPP followers never want to play fair. They always try to find a way to get the Supreme Court to rule in their. A clear example is this contribution by Professor S. Kwaku Asare. If such distortions are coming from a so-called ...
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  • Joseph 10 years ago

    "Professor", Since you are interested in facts, I want you to bring your mind to the fact that:

    1. your party lost the 2012 election fairly and squarely

    2. your lead counsel has no clue as to what he is doing in court ...
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  • Kojo T 10 years ago

    Your main points were fraud and conspiracy. Prof withe your excellent Knowledge and analytical ability, should Atukpuga not have asked about the frtaud and conspiarcy? You called the President " stealer" . What has Addisons q ...
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  • Kwabena Erzoah 10 years ago

    Professor Asare,
    I have read your piece with interest. Without disrespecting your views, I find it difficult to understand or pin point your objectives. I can see a lot of prejudicial comments made in your piece. But as a p ...
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  • Thinker 10 years ago

    Are you sure you are watching this court proceedings or you are in your room watching the NDC proceedings on video they sent you?

    Where was Atuguba when Tsatsu was insulting his peers?

    Where was Atuguba when Tsatsu was ...
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  • Joseph 10 years ago

    tell us who you really are. is thinker a name? you believe your impressions should be the standard and that no one else is entitled to their impressions? come again.

  • Conventional Wisdom 10 years ago

    Why have you deviated from your discussion with Thinker ?

  • Yao Kpega 10 years ago

    and he rambles as if he never studied law. He is too biased and should recuse himself. The Prof. is right for 100 points.

  • LEVI 10 years ago

    Prof I share your sentiments, he,the presiding judge is not doing justice to himself and the Supreme Court. What he, the presiding judge fails to realize is that the proceedings are being telecast live, and many people includ ...
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  • Conventional Wisdom 10 years ago

    Atuguba is yet to come to terms with REALITY.

  • Gyambibi 10 years ago

    "...we expect all playing lawyers praying to the court to display their professional ethics at least". Well said.

    That is precisely what the Professor is saying: that display of professional ethics should not be expected ...
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  • STEVEO 10 years ago

    Gyambibi, which legal show have you been watching that is depriving you of the reality unfolding in this case. If you are honest with yourself, you know that Justice Atuguba has conducted himself so well in handling this sens ...
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  • Okonko Palm 10 years ago

    People who don't know Kwaku Asare also known as Kwaku Azar on Say it loud,you may take this article as coming from a professor and therefore worth a serious consideration.But this a man of whose daily routine had been to be a ...
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  • STEVEO 10 years ago

    It is sad that those who are expected to know better, ie members of the educated class, have descended into the gutter to dish out dirt on Justice Atuguba, who happens to be discharging his duty.

    I don't have any problem ...
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  • Mama Tula 10 years ago

    I can't agree with you better than this response of yours. Indeed, my brother, Ghana is in total mess and doomed because of criminals and the nefarious activities of the educated elite like the so called Prof. Asare and his c ...
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  • Social Thinker 10 years ago

    Please, we should chose our words carefully in commenting on this sensitive issue. After all, we are all one people, there is no other place that we can call our country except this one. We might disagree with each other's vi ...
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  • ADWEN 10 years ago

    When I watch the on going supreme court case, I cringe on seeing open display of incompetence, disorganisation of proceedings, lack of procedural controls by the supreme court judges (the supreme court judges led by Atuguba a ...
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  • Amma 10 years ago

    I lost hope pretty quickly after a few days of court hearing. You don't get a tinge of awe one would normally feel when looking close up at the work of those considered the 'creme de la creme'. The dreary speeches, crass dec ...
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  • Nana TWUNEBOAH KOFI - KSI 10 years ago

    DON'T YOU KNOW PHILIP WAS NOT TALKING WELL AS A LAWYER.DOUBT IF PHILIP CAN EVER WIN A CASE IN COURT.

  • ghanaman 10 years ago

    unfortunately for npp spin doctors like asare, the case is live so every ghanaian can make his/her own opinion. Just like how these spin doctors who have no respect for the truth & peace of ghana discredited the EC when the e ...
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  • ghanaman 10 years ago

    unfortunately for npp spin doctors like asare, the case is live so every ghanaian can make his/her own opinion. Just like how these spin doctors who have no respect for the truth & peace of ghana discredited the EC when the e ...
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  • Mama Tula 10 years ago

    Congrats my brother, hit them and hit them at their groins. They think they call fool every one with their propaganda machinery. It honestly makes me feel sad when I read materials like that of Prof. Asare attacking the inter ...
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  • James Eshun 10 years ago

    Be a decent human being. He has stated his opinion. State yours without the insults, if you are capable of putting together a coherent paragraph.

  • Sylvia Mensah 10 years ago

    Do you have what it takes to address the issues he is raising? Some of you are too foolish.

  • Maame Esi Brown 10 years ago

    Stop supporting blindly, ok? Kwaku Asare's article can best be described as trash. Addison is arrogant, disrespecful, spiteful and a disgrace to the Ghana Bar association. I think Justice Atuguba and co. are being too lenien ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Maame Esi,
    How about the thief Tsatsu? Did you ever hear his cross-examination of Dr Bawumia? I guess with your type of intellect that wil be lost on you.
    Cry the beloved country!

  • Gyambibi 10 years ago

    Oh Ghanaians...

  • STOP THE Z 10 years ago

    This place should be one for intellectual and constructive discussions. Ghanaweb Shoul filter out insulting comments. Tweneboah should bow in shame.

  • Mama Tula 10 years ago

    What has Tweneboah said that necessitates bowing his head in shame?? What about the writer who was directly attacking the learned judge of bias. Pls let us call spade a spade. I did not go to school up to Kwaku Asare's level ...
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  • Nana Yaw 10 years ago

    You are not Kwaku Asare. The Prof has said what everyone sees. Hopefully, Atuguba will read it and change

  • Kwobia (Toronto ) 10 years ago

    Your views reflect your own biases as well.

  • Alaba Lucy 10 years ago

    You are telling lies. Atuguba's bias is well known. Even on trivial matters, he votes against NPP resulting in 8-1 on the Court. He has no integrity

  • Brother 10 years ago

    Why call Prof unsavory names. Prof is expressing his biased opinion so what. why insult him. NPP surportors shd also be aware that the justices are nine and Justice Atuguba can not take decisions alone. Why insult him. Is it ...
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  • Maame Esi Brown 10 years ago

    Keep your childish and foolish views to yourself! Your NPP brainwashed mind is so polluted u can't even reason well. To u, it's only when Justice Atuguba does or says things in support of the petitioners that he can be consid ...
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  • concerned ghanaian 10 years ago

    My Dear Prof.,

    I have read and feel very disappointed by your article. It is your right to express your views but if as you are accusing the Justice of BIAS, why do you leave your Bias so open and glaring?
    The worse thin ...
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  • Kwamina Ansa 10 years ago

    The Prof. may have his own biases, as a human being, but I think he has stated facts on this one. Atuguba has become a disgrace

  • Sylvia Mensah 10 years ago

    Do you have what it takes to address the issues he is raising? Some of you are too foolish.

  • jake 10 years ago

    I say how do you guys get away with it.
    insults, defamation, character assassination and no one, takes them court, and sue the hell out of these hot heads.
    An example ought to be set, to bring an end to this.
    Some calling ...
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  • Peter Tasiri 10 years ago

    where Judges are above scrutiny and criticisms

  • jake 10 years ago

    no sense
    A literate illiterate, can't reason factually.
    Another frioco.
    Go get your grandma train you again- idota.

  • You have no integrity 10 years ago

    You misled NPP to accuse an Israeli Company of faxjacking election results in a facility at Dzorwulu, falsifying them, before transmission to the EC strong room.

    Why are you not proving that allegation in court?

    You hav ...
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  • Yaa Konadu 10 years ago

    Address the points he has made and stop the nonsense. How can he mislead NPP into anything? Is he superman?

  • jake 10 years ago

    that is the foot soldiers for you.

  • Akufo Addo 10 years ago

    This nonsense against Justice Atuguba won't wash. You have been waiting to castigate him after your lost course. You can say whatever you like about him but your case is just absurd. Addisson has nothing more to ask and so he ...
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  • seidu ali 10 years ago

    I am surprise professor is attached to your name. your reasoning is not here nor there. i can see a bitter man and frustrated man making his voice heard. there is no objectivity in this your piece since all indications are th ...
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  • GENERAL DeGAULE 10 years ago

    “the court would not hesitate in applying sanctions to Addison in accordance with the ethics of the court if he continued casting insinuations at the judges.”

    Did we all watch the same proceedings. I thought justice At ...
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  • GRACE 10 years ago

    Justice Atuguba spoke only after Jus tice Bonnie has drawn Addison's attention to his wild behaviour. Why single out Justice Atuguba. Are there not nine Judges hearing the case? How can Justice Atuguba alone force his decis ...
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  • Maame Esi Brown 10 years ago

    Ghanaians don't need articles from people like Kwaku Asare who are still lost in the wilderness and who believe in the all die be die nonsense! These are the selfish people who place their selfish interests above that of the ...
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  • Chabba 10 years ago

    The greatest blame goes to the Chief Justice, Georgina Wood, for picking Justice Atugba, a pro NDC, as the presiding judge. The fact is, as soon as the NDC came to power in 2008,one of their first agenda was to vilify,threate ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Chabba,
    I share your sentiments, but I believe that the Chief Justice put forward Atuguba's name for a purpose. She rightly did not include herself because one of her blood reltives is married to one of the petitioners.

    ...
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  • Amma 10 years ago

    If Georgina Wood thought of recusing herself because of the tag of 'conflict of interest' how the hell did she not see the sense in doing same with Atuguba? All the judges have a leaning one way or the other but when it is so ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Amma,
    It was for Atuguba, if he had any sense of responsibility or respect for his own self, to decline to serve on the panel. As Chabba rightly pointed out, the NDC had been baying for Mrs Wood's blood. So she implicated At ...
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  • Amma 10 years ago

    I run out of tears for my beloved country, Kobena! By the way, what I said was to say, just like you I agree with what Chabba, had to say. And I might add again, the judges are a complete let down. It was said during the ele ...
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  • Kobena 10 years ago

    Well said, Prof,
    Atuguba is clearly an interested party in this petition and should have not been on the panel in the first place. I believe the Chief Justice intentionally put him on the panel hoping that he would do the de ...
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  • Baba Alhassan 10 years ago

    Ghanaians cannot trust Atuguba to be fair from the look of things. If indeed he and his team are looking for the truth they could compel the EC to produce the original documents in contention to court so that they match those ...
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  • AMICUS LAWYER 10 years ago

    The 9 judges ought to know that the future of our country Ghana which has a population o over twenty million lies in their hand, Politics, unfair justice, bribery and corruptions, has led many beautiful people from the countr ...
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  • JA 10 years ago

    Learn from the Kenyans. They did theirs BEFORE the winner was sworn-in. They did it within ONE MONTH. Ours is purely an academic exercise. My opinion is that NOTHING can overturn the results.

  • yaw 10 years ago

    Idun stands up and accuses addison of being impolite to afari gyan about ideal democracy. atuguba steps in to reprimand addison. addison retorts, idun protested for afari gyan and not himself. so in this case, either atuguba ...
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  • Kojo Samla 10 years ago

    Azar is showing the bias all his NPP compatriots show. By now he should realise that Addison has nothing to say so he is trying his best to solicit negative responses from the justices by his uncouth ways. By so doing he is p ...
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  • Desmond 10 years ago

    Guys, let us admit we rigged the elections and leave power nicely with immediate effect before judgement comes on us. That will be too shameful. The evidence is too much to bear and I cannot sit comfortably in my seat when hi ...
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  • STEVEO 10 years ago

    Desmond, Inspite of all your tirade, can you please tell us how many pink sheets the NPP filed?

    Stay on the issue.

  • OTU 10 years ago

    Prof. I know it All. Too known writer. People like you find faults where there are none. The Prof. is wrong 100%. Allow the Judges to do the job that they love doing.

  • Atuguba is just fake 10 years ago

    Nothing will prevent the petitioner's from winning the case. Atuguba is just one man

  • HON. JOHN ASIEDU NKETIA 10 years ago

    GHANA SUPREME COURT IS INEFFICIENT WITH ATUGUBA AS HEAD. CHIEF JUSTICE HAS TO REPLACE HIM IN THE FUTURE TO INSTILL THE TRUST AND DISCIPLINE IN THE SUPREME COURT. CURRENTLY, PEOPLE BOTH LOCAL AND OUTSIDERS WATCHING THE CASE LI ...
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  • nabia 10 years ago

    so you have managed to get this useless article here.
    NPP are going to lose this case. What Azar is doing is to prepare a scape goat. First it was President Mahama, it did not work, Afari gyan has also eluded them, who next ...
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  • Jorotara 10 years ago

    Leave Atuguba alone. He is not biased.

  • Ben 10 years ago

    Are you not ashamed to be called a professor and writing this article. What do u know about law? Are u a judge of the judges of the SC? Reason well

  • Bonti Benjamin 10 years ago

    Justice Atuguba is causing more harm than good to the image of the judicial system.He should learn to be fair in order for people to stop raising doubt about him.

  • A K 5 10 years ago

    Justice Atugubah is not a fair person. Has he ever warned the likes of Tsikata or Tony - although they have committed more serious breaches of the "rules"? I like the EC lawyer, Quarshie-Idun: he is the only one I cannot faul ...
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  • He's alive 10 years ago

    Good name is better than riches. Indeed there is God who created heaven and earth, He's alive and watching.

    Do the judges have families?

  • atomic 10 years ago

    we tend to self inflict fatal wounds on ourselves when we continuously accuse others for our undoing. we start attacking JM and the NDC for rigging the elections. then we dont see any issues of fraud int the petition. Afari G ...
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  • Bad man 10 years ago

    If any bad thing happend ghanaian must put the blame on injustice atuguba

  • Mr. Newton 10 years ago

    please lets not look for scape goats in this case. fact is the petitioners (NPP) just have a bad case.

  • EBOW 10 years ago

    Justice at the SC should acknowledge God presence at the court room. What they are doing God has seen them. How can you protect a witness who is in the box. Did you protect Bawumia.

  • Whatever 10 years ago

    What is this writer saying? Didn't he hear Mr Addison attacking the respondents counsel using foul language and insinuation? You wanted the chair of the bench(Atuguba) to sit aloof while NPP continue to mar the process with f ...
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  • Mabia 10 years ago

    A SELF SERVING ONE SIDED DIATRIBES OF A FRUSTRATED LOSER. YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE, SO BIASED THAT, YOU HAVE SUFFERED TEMPORARY AMNESIA AND CANNOT ECALL THE SAME JUDGE HANRAGUING BOTH TONY LITHUR AND TSATSU TSIKAKA.
    THOSE OF US ...
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  • Quarcoopome 10 years ago

    Tsatsu can say shut up to the other lawyers and Atuguba will cheer on.

  • CK 10 years ago

    In your article you write that you were in the court for just 2 days out of the 34 days. You are drawing conclusions about Atuguba after you failed to attend even 10 percent of the hearings. Where were you when the respondent ...
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  • Mama Tula 10 years ago

    Tell him again....

  • T Squared 10 years ago

    Do you need 1 year to observe bias?

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Idiocy!

  • JOSHUA KYEREMEH 10 years ago

    PROFESSOR WHAT? I SAID IT. THESE TITLES HELD BY SOME GHANAIANS CAN BE MISLEADING. IN GHANA ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN. EVEN KAYAYEI CAN BECOME JUDGES OR LAW LECTURERS OVERNIGHT WITHOUT KNOWING HOW,TO READ OR WRITE.. ALL THEY NEED TO ...
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  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Skin pain anti-intellectual!

  • Akadu Mensema 10 years ago

    Kwaku:

    Thanks for this piece. You wonder why the press can't bring this to the public attention. Atuguba is biased against the NPP!

  • Matemeho 10 years ago

    Oh Kweku B so upon all your accounting knowledge on double-sided transaction you still could not balance your story

    So you have not seen or heared the arrogance of Addison in court. You are not aware that Addison sometimes ...
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  • Chabba 10 years ago

    Ghana web, my comment was about the 8th comment, why do you keep on always moving my comments further down? What are you afraid of? Shame on you!

  • Mumuni Iddrisu 10 years ago

    Every Ghanaian citizen owes Professor Kwaku Asare a BIG THANK YOU. His article is very well written, and extremely logical.
    What the learned Professor omitted in his article is the fact that Justice Atuguba's brother or clos ...
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  • Jane London 10 years ago

    I have been following the court hearing with great interest and I am sorry to say that I find justice Atuguba a bully, who has been intimidating Lawyer Addison all in court.

    What Atuguba has forgotten is that this case is ...
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