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Atuguba’s mind was made up before election petition trial - Lawyer Ampaw

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  • JMP 10 years ago

    Is Maurice saying that the petitioners discharged the burden of proof beyond all reasonable doubts but that Justice Atugba ignored the evidence just on the basis of this simple statement? I thought he was somebody some of tho ...
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  • Kay 10 years ago

    HE WILL RECEIVE THE WRATH OF GOD.

  • Ben 10 years ago

    It is a fact that this man delivered a terrible judgement and got a Visa and run out of the country.

  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    Ignorant fool!!

  • Fofie 10 years ago

    When is he returning to Ghana? Coming events casts their shadows.

  • Krachie 10 years ago

    When will you guys just accept defeat?. There will never come a time to do that. I hope if you ever win again you tell Ghanaians that the EC favored you, instead of the losers.

  • IDRIS PACAS 10 years ago

    When will nPP members stop daydreaming? These people are happy to be known as Minority in parliament, but erroneously think that what affects them affects the majority in Ghana. Daydreamers! First, redirect your analysis to f ...
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  • william 10 years ago

    is ampaw a lawyer or a village letter writer?What a shame? And this is dishonorably stated at a function by a so-called 'institute' bearing Danquah's name!!!

  • Nicholas J Bedzo 10 years ago

    How comes, were you there as a witness
    come out to say your vedict in public.

  • kofi 10 years ago

    I thought people would look at this article objectively and make informed judgment. How could people be so partisan in their analysis. Please let's think about the country first before a tribe or party. If we as a country don ...
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  • True True 10 years ago

    Atuguba, most compromised and so easily bribeable judge of this era. Oh, what a disgraced judged!!

  • Fo Kwaku - Tanyingbe 10 years ago

    NOT ON TECHNICALITIES OR ON THE FACE OF PINKSHEETS. NPP GET IT INTO YOUR UGLYHEADS

  • Yaw(VA) 10 years ago

    elections, just as they are won at the Polling Stations, are also stolen at the Polling Station, FOOL! That election was not won but stolen, IDIOT. Get that thru your thick head.

  • Nsohbunu 10 years ago

    Since you are that smart can you tell us how the election was stolen? I don't remember hearing that as one of the pleadings. No presiding officer appeared anywhere to say he/she did not sign because the results were false or ...
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  • Okanta Otanka 10 years ago

    Get it through your own thick skull that if the only means of winning elections in Ghana is through rigging, then Kuffour rigged the elections in 2000 and 2004 so let's live with it.

  • BABZY 10 years ago

    This maurice fool is a disgrace to the profession. An ignorant frustrated lawyer

  • Brainy guy 10 years ago

    Please write a sensible rebuttal to his article instead of insulting him.

  • Concerned 10 years ago

    During the petition hearing I used to listen to Maurice on TV3 and thought he was good and politically neutral. He praised the SC President profusely when he stabilised the country. I now feel completely let down.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 10 years ago

    This group of Danquah Jazzmen faking under the institutional status of credence, may sooner than later burn Oman Ghana down before all. If they are not at the helm of affairs, then all is wretchedly bad and nothing is looking ...
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  • NPP - Disillusioned Desperadoes 10 years ago

    “For starters I would state that the Judiciary in Ghana, ....., does not READILY (caps mine) invalidate a public election, .......”

    Some of these NPP personnel anad lawyers must stop exposing their shallow mindedness ( ...
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  • DDH 10 years ago

    Man, you must be one of the guys who really learnt very well in school. You have excellent knowledge of issues. Ghana we seriously lack analytical minds. That is what is worrying NPP. There a group of people with money and bo ...
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  • Akwadaa_Nyame 10 years ago

    First time I heard him speak on a legal matter on JoyFM`s PM Express.
    His answers to simple questions posed by the host were so convoluted that I think he left his listeners more than they were before the programme. I have h ...
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  • TT 10 years ago

    If good legal brains will not discuss issues on TV. The void must be filled

  • Dzato 10 years ago

    The election will always be rigged but sice the court does not have jurisdiction to overturn a disputed results we have to start fighting like it is the case in other African countries.

  • Agbedefu 10 years ago

    Nonsense

  • koo 10 years ago

    fuck you. we will advice our selfs next time.

  • Okanta Otanka 10 years ago

    Cowards like you will always shout fight fight but will shift in your pants at the sound of a fire cracker.lol
    In the early 80s to 90s your uncles,grand fathers,and fathers were cowed by the mere sight of a man in uniform ho ...
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  • SHEIK 10 years ago

    LOOK AT THIS FOOLISH MAN TOO AND HIS SAYINGS.WE ARE TIRED OF YOUR STUPIDITY OF GOING TO COURT

  • DONBOLI 10 years ago

    Another Stupid man who thinks from his eyes. There is no Judge how can over turn our Supreme Court decision. Foolish are those who think Atuguba can over turn our Supreme Court decision. The Supreme Court made John Mahama Pre ...
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  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    When the guy used to ran commentary for TV3 during the trial, he was always struggling in explaining basic things. He doesn't even have good command over English language. He is a quack.

  • Beejoe 10 years ago

    Amofa, you see how stupid you are? Where on earth do we use Someone's Language as a yard-stick to measure the intelligent level of a person? No Wonder people like you always rely on the state to be what you are.

  • Yaw Amofa 10 years ago

    If you weren't an idiot, you would have known that the official language of the Ghanaian judiciary is English, so if you have a lawyer who is not articulate, how do they perform? Your bloody self did not post in Arabic, did y ...
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  • Agbedefu 10 years ago

    The truth is as Justice William Atuguba said. The supreme interest of the public supersedes everything else. That is considering the peace and safety of Ghanaians before anything else; such as the arrogancy and I must be Pres ...
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  • Johnson Adjei 10 years ago

    Akufo Addo wants to be president as all costs, I see no reason why he wants Ghanaians to put him at the Flagstaff House, he should have gone there and claim the presidency orally, I AKUFU ADDO I DECLARE MYSELF AS PRESIDENT O ...
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  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    All these fools should give us all a break. If you as a lawyer refuse to have confidence in the SUPREME COURT of the land then what the hell do they expect from the rest of the populace. These NPP apologist should please SHUT ...
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  • kooljaay 10 years ago

    Maurice is a big fool who Does not know his left from right. Maurice can continue to work for his pay masters.nonsense and rented minded lawyer. appuuu!

  • KOFI ADU 10 years ago

    Yr 2016 will be war...We shall all carry our pink sheets-signed or unsigned, and see what the idiot Afari Gyan will do..Atuguba is evil, but like Kofi Awonnor, the EVIL that men do lives on after them

  • Kodjo 10 years ago

    Kofi, you and who will fight for these dickhead politicians??? Don't be stupid and go find something useful to do with your spare time!! And by the way Dr Afari Gyan would have retired GRACEFULLY and I for one will recommend ...
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  • OBIBINI 10 years ago

    Dr Ampaw is day dreaming.So he wanted the votes of thousands of ghanaians to be invalidated in favour of Akuffo-Addo.Was that not going to be a traversity of justice?The NPP can continue to cry over a spilled milk and who car ...
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  • AFARI GYAN - 27 ZERO;CREATED,LOOTED 10 years ago

    Unjust Atuguba - full of sound and fury signifying NOTHING!!! These Ghanaian leaders without principles e.g. Atuguba & Co. will wake up day and realise the adverse effects of their actions - the consequences of their actions ...
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  • ASANTE 10 years ago

    AMPAW YOU ARE A FOOL YOU KNOW NOTHING

  • Ike Kofi-kyei 10 years ago

    at least Atuguba Jsc made it clear to the world by the statement that he and other judges were just wasting our time and they were not about law but abt sustaining John Mahama. We just have to advice ourselfs in the subseque ...
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  • ODIKRO 10 years ago

    A WHOLE MONTH AFTER THE VERDICT, IS THIS WHAT DR. AMPAW CAN COME UP WITH? SOME PEOPLE JUST LIKE TO BE HEARD. SOME EVEN WHEN THEY SNORE. PATHETIC, PATHETIC, PATHETIC

  • Wahab klagon 10 years ago

    May God granted us long life and healthy 2016 if single bloodshed lose we didnt forgive him and his corruption judges because nobody will file any petition to supreme court.

  • GHANAIAN OBSERVER 10 years ago

    THE IMAGE OF GHANA'S SUPREME COURT IS ALREADY DENTED. WITH JUSTICES ATUGUBA AND BAMFO (LATE ATTA MILLS CONCUBINE/GIRLFRIEND) SIDED AND SHARED SECRET NOTES WITH RESPONDENT (NDC, MAHAMA AND ELECTORAL COMMISIONER) LAWYERS AFTER ...
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  • peace 10 years ago

    forget this and remove that idiot mahama from office

  • Ghanaian 10 years ago

    If Mahama is idiot? then i wonder what ur father will be.

  • KWAKU 10 years ago

    WHEN I LOOK AT THE WAY LAWYERS ARE GENERALLY QUICK AT DENIGRATING THEIR OPPONENTS BASED ON THEIR POLITICAL INCLINATIONS, I BEGIN O UNDERSTAND WHY SOME JUDGES WERE ABDUCTED AND MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD IN THE PAST. THE UTTERANCE ...
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  • Nsohbunu 10 years ago

    You may not agree with this but the way some of the SC judges upheld some of the reliefs really baffles me. That is actually the danger - that an SC knowing very well that the petitioners refused to bring presiding officers t ...
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  • all the way 10 years ago

    atuguba is a big thief

  • Sarfo Ba 10 years ago

    Who to be blamed NPP. Too match trust will kill NPP. Say it if you don't aggree thats why I like Sir John. He may sound stupid but man maintain this guy.

  • BUKARI 10 years ago

    ATUBIGA DESERVES NOT TO BE AT SUPREME COURT.HE IS CORRUPT AND SHOULD BE MADE TO REFUND THE 5M BRIBE.

  • Johanny 10 years ago

    If you live in Ghana you may feel everything in Ghana is ok, and will not notice what you these people are lacking. It is not your fault.

  • Ghanaian 10 years ago

    Am sory for NPP.

  • yaw buadu 10 years ago

    This petition was so bias and sort of "arm-twisting" approach to seeking justice.

  • Raymond 10 years ago

    This man doeds not have a PHD. He was honoured by the a religious body.This empty brain calls himself a social commentator? We are watching those media houses who invite him and introduce him as an independent panelist

  • Papa Yaw 10 years ago

    How

  • jojo 10 years ago

    Why not try going to war if you think you guys want to rule anyhow.

  • JAN 10 years ago

    MOVE THE PARTY ON AND STO THIS NONSENCE. GABY WILL GROUND THE PARTY IN A SENSATIONAL FASHION.

  • Kofi Ghana 10 years ago

    He made up his mind long before the decision was made!

  • Spider 10 years ago

    Ghana is now controled by idiots. They do not even look like Ghanians

  • Kwame Aidoo 10 years ago

    He does not belong to our country no more due to his ill-judgement and nation wrecking decision in the last SC failure.We, Ghanaians are ready to defend our nation in the name togetherness and peace.Any nation-wrecker must be ...
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  • Pee 10 years ago

    I think the Justices were sympathetic to even allow the case to go as far as it went. if there was anything bad about the case it was that sort of tolerance. How can any right-thinking legal scholar even imagine that one can ...
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  • Osei Yao 10 years ago

    Whwere were these latter-day lawyers. The NPP would have done better with them pleading the case. Of course any nincompoop can now speak if only to vilify the judges.

  • Johnson Adjei 10 years ago

    Maurice Ampaw go hang yourself this NPP and their all die be die, win at all cost mantra, do you expect the SC should throw away 4 million votes cast so that your drug dealer should be crowned president?, you are out of your ...
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  • JOSH 10 years ago

    It is a disheartening to hear that Ghanaians were disappointed in the judgment. Who are those Ghanaians? the majority who voted for JM or the NPP followers and surrogates? Someone should educate me. I really did not know that ...
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  • Woman's Wisdom 10 years ago

    Ghanaians in US must look for Atuguba and deal with him. The man is evil and Satanic.

  • jim 10 years ago

    Hmmmmmm interesting indeed.The irony of the Ghanaian intellectual.We were all struggling in practice at the courts then he is awarded a hononary doctorate degree by a theological institute at Gbawe and suddenly he becomes an ...
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  • curious 10 years ago

    why don't you bring all of your woman's wisdom' with you to the US and look for him and deal with him as you think fit?

  • nicman@atl 10 years ago

    how did you know there will ba an election decided by the supreme court. still under the influence of the 77 missen parcels of cocaine.

  • Analyst 10 years ago

    Perhaps somebody (probably some layman) has to explain Justice Atugugah to the learned lawyer.
    This is what the Justice said: “For starters I would state that the Judiciary in Ghana, like its counter parts in other jurisdi ...
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  • kofi ofori amoako 10 years ago

    NPP lost the case when Atuguba intimidated the NPP lawyers into withdrawing their motion to have him recused from the case because he is the uncle of Raymond Atuguba,Mahama's executive assistant who at one point used to write ...
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  • frank 10 years ago

    If things go againt you, then hell should break loose.

    Shambolic and bogus analysi

    leave this nobel man alone

    he stood firm against all npp mavirics

  • hb 10 years ago

    Apaw, you have nothing to say give us a break.

  • VAVIOTO 10 years ago

    HISTORY HAD BEEN MADE. NO PROBLEMS ON ANY FUTURE ELECTION WILL BE SENT TO COURT AGAIN. OUR SUPREME COURT JUDGES DID NOT JUDGE WITH MUCH OBJECTIVITY. IT WAS A ONE SIDED AFFAIR. ONLY VIOLENCE WILL BE USED TO SETTLE ELECTION P ...
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  • OSEI TAWIA JUSTICE (USA). 10 years ago

    WE ARE SICK AND TIED OF THIS USELESS AND STUPID DANQUAH INSTITUTE. ANY THING THAT GOES AGAINST THIS SO CALLED DANQUAH, BUSIA, DOMBO PEOPLE IS NOT A GOOD ONE WHY?''NKWASIAFUO''.

  • ABBAS 10 years ago

    u people are just confused, the chief justice per the constitution of the land appointed 9 justices, and am sure the judgement was not only from atuguba even though he presided over the land mark case. i expect the DI to chan ...
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  • WIGGY 10 years ago

    so if I may know. what is your problem. NPP will be in opposition for a very long time. come 2016 NPP will lose. then u will know your party never won 2012. mind you it is Ghanaians who decides who should be president and not ...
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  • SAY IT AS IT IS! 10 years ago

    One gets sick to read from people you think to know better if they are not sick in thier heads. Is is just sicken to read this from someone like AMPAW to stoop so low as he has done at this so called DI. Pity iwill say and ma ...
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  • hb 10 years ago

    Is npp having problem sleep at a dog, and solving your own problems?

  • YAA 10 years ago

    WHAT ARE SUPRISE OFF, WHAT DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND? FOOL NDC NKWASIAFUO, NDC THIEVES AND BASTARDS, YOU WILL ALL ROTE IN HELL.

  • Nii Ashitey 10 years ago

    Dr Ampaw has exhibited a crass misunderstanding of how the courts arrive at their judgements and the rules that they follow.Every case that goes to the court, the court must premise its search for the facts or the truth with ...
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  • Ghana 10 years ago

    Ghana posterity will judge

  • James, Karikari 10 years ago

    Ampaw must be cautious with his utterances. It is always better to have a responsible attitude and make intelligent argument than making wide and wild claims without any logic or foundation of the truth. For any respectable ...
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  • MENSAH 10 years ago

    I am so! so! so! disappointed in you Maurice. I thought you we a descent neutral panelist when you were appearing on TV3 discussions during the petition hearings. I never thought you were a ravaging wolf in sheep skin. The de ...
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  • SAKARA 10 years ago

    npp LAWYER, YOU CAN SEND LAWYER ATUGUBA TO COURT IF YOU KNOW THE LAW MORE THAN HIM. ARE YOU REALLY A LAWYER? OH MY GOD. npp LAWYER GHANA NEED PEACE.

  • Mark 10 years ago

    Please be mindful of your comments. You can disagree with what Maurice said without insulting him. Educated people should always keep thier comments decent

  • BOB MARLEY J 10 years ago

    THIS UGLY PEPENII JUDGE WILL SURELY BURN IN HELL. THIS FOOL KILLED DEMOCRACY IN GHANA AND THE REST OF AFRICA. FROM NOW ON WHAT IS THE POINT IN ANYONE GOING TO COURT. THIS UGLY BEAST ATUGUBA (ONCE A TOILET CARRIER) SHOULD HIDE ...
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  • Relistic 10 years ago

    MAURICE THIS SHAMEFULL OF YOU IF INDEED THIS PIECE IS FACTUAL! I TOT YOU WERE VERY OBJECTIVE,TRY & ANALISE ATUGUBA PROPERLY. AFTERALL WHAT MASSIVE EVIDENCE DID NPP PROVED TO HAVE WON THEM THE VERDICT? STOP THIS! IF...

  • osei-rotterdam 10 years ago

    i am trabalistic here because atuguba is the number one trabalistic man in ghana.

  • Agbee 10 years ago

    even lawyers can make blanket statements like this. what is the number of Ghanaians who confined in Dr. Ampaw, that they had been disappointed by judgement? it is evident that some Ghanaians (the petitioners and allies)had be ...
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  • tohugu 10 years ago

    Maurice Ampaw's argument is so laced with NPP lies that even a drunk can quickly tell of how insubstantively warped it is. It is a shame that warped-minded individuals with myopic thinking and parading themselves on conferenc ...
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  • Mr. Haircare 10 years ago

    the terrorists will SOON run over AtuguBA. How on earth did we expect him to rule against a northerner and more so when his nephew has a position in the administration? Death to him and all who ruled with him.

  • tohugu 10 years ago

    When Ampaw cites 1300 dead kenyans and 600,000 others displaced, is he in a veiled way suggesting that Ghanaians are so unwise and prone to violence like other countries, to emulate their unwise animalism? Ampaw should unders ...
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  • SAKARA 10 years ago

    What's your name? Who say WHO SAY NAM NO DAY MAN DAY. What's your name Damongo man?

  • DDH 10 years ago

    I cry for this nation. Every idiot comes out to say any rubbish and call themselves lawyers.

  • zongo president 10 years ago

    Atuguba is corrupt judge,,,,his hands is in the pocket of ndc party, with that dont be surprise he is another stupid pepeniii.....

  • kofi 10 years ago

    I thought people would look at this article objectively and make informed judgment but all that some people could do was to insult others who had done diligent assessment of this corrupt judgment. Atuguba and the so called ma ...
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  • YAA 10 years ago

    YES ATUGUBA MADE UP HIS MIND BEFORE THE PETITION STARTED. GOD PUNISH YOU ATUGUBA, YOU WILL NEVER KNOWN PEACE FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. SHAME ON YOU. WHERE ARE YOU? COME TO GHANA AND FACE THE MUSIC. GHANAIANS ARE WAITING FOR ...
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  • Whatever 10 years ago

    Loser stop looking for excuses for court defeat over your "you and I were not there petition". Are you a lawyer or a psychologist? crazy nonsense

  • venom 10 years ago

    Grant Ghanaians a break with your election bla..bla...blaaah.It is over and just get back to work. The distasteful truth is you cannot win an election with only two regions. Even with those regions NDC had managed to impact t ...
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  • yahaya jafaru 10 years ago

    Dr.Ampaw should know better as a lawyer,when a parson is having conflict desires like Nana, it manifest anger and hatred,so ampaw and co should learn how to live with it or should go to hell.

  • Justman 10 years ago

    LAWYER AMPAW WAS DIAGONSED AS SUFFERING FROM HIGH FEVER AS A RESULT OF THE ELECTION PETITION.SO HE DREAMI NG THAT HE IS IN THE MIND OF THE SUPREME COURT JUDGE ATUGUBA. A SERIOUS HIGH FEVER CONDITION THAT IS INCURABLE.

  • Justman 10 years ago

    LAWYER AMPAW DIAGONSED OF INCURABLE HIGH FEVER SYNDROM THAT MAKES HIM SEE HIMSELF IN THE MIND OF JUDGE ATUGUBA.

  • Francis 10 years ago

    The face of Atuguba was like a roasted pawpaw. It was like more than a Brutus. What did God told Cain after he had murdered his brother, if you have done well , but sin is before you,pursuing you.Why did he run to US to ban ...
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  • Francis 10 years ago

    Big head like Athuguba's own is full of wickedness.He should pray for forgiveness from the righteous Judge if he had ever fined or jailed some one before. For what Samuel and other Judges didn't do he embraces it. shame Atug ...
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  • Francis 10 years ago

    Atuguba swam in dirty muddy water like swine to cool down the body temperature because of the under laid fat

  • Philip 10 years ago

    I'm actually not surprise about the verdict because from day one this judge Atuguba or whatever his name is took sides in the case,i was rather surprise to hear Tsatsu saying one one of the jugdes made his polictical support ...
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  • Isaac Agyekum 10 years ago

    The lord wil judge every body including atuguba himself