All these corrupt people playing scare tactics.
WHY CAN'T WE INVEST IN OUR OWN ECONOMY?
Because of corruption we teamed up with the foreigner to invest while we take a commission.
The foreigner pay to play that's why he th ... read full comment
All these corrupt people playing scare tactics.
WHY CAN'T WE INVEST IN OUR OWN ECONOMY?
Because of corruption we teamed up with the foreigner to invest while we take a commission.
The foreigner pay to play that's why he the foreigner should be worried heh?
ELINAM 8 years ago
We have created the toxic atmospheres for the foreigner to PAY TO PLAY.
OSAFO MAAFO and the gang are all in to this PAY TO PLAY that's why the so-called investor have to be worry.
We need a clean Ghana with NO corrupt fore ... read full comment
We have created the toxic atmospheres for the foreigner to PAY TO PLAY.
OSAFO MAAFO and the gang are all in to this PAY TO PLAY that's why the so-called investor have to be worry.
We need a clean Ghana with NO corrupt foreign "investor".
REMEMBER VODAFON? IT WAS PAY TO PLAY
ELINAM 8 years ago
All of a sudden, all the big pastors who preach from the "powerful" pulpit against corruption all became mummu?
Where's the METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP of Accra?, where's Otabil?Where's Duncan William?
Is His Holiness Right Rev ... read full comment
All of a sudden, all the big pastors who preach from the "powerful" pulpit against corruption all became mummu?
Where's the METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP of Accra?, where's Otabil?Where's Duncan William?
Is His Holiness Right Rev. Matte still in Ghana?
WHERE'RE THE HOLY MEN'S POSITION ON the JUDGES?
We're going deaf on their silence.
Obed Adore 8 years ago
Ask again oo, Elinam
Ask again oo, Elinam
vigour 8 years ago
The incident will boost investor confidence if the judges involved are dealt according to law. We have the opportunity to make an example of them and the whole world will know we are serious. We should not allow the mafia sys ... read full comment
The incident will boost investor confidence if the judges involved are dealt according to law. We have the opportunity to make an example of them and the whole world will know we are serious. We should not allow the mafia system to operate in Ghana
yaw 8 years ago
Vigour,in the first place ,what is Mr.Sarfo Marfo saying? These judges must rather be set as an example to investors to see us as serious nation and have confidence in the judiciary.
We Play the trick they fear us and they w ... read full comment
Vigour,in the first place ,what is Mr.Sarfo Marfo saying? These judges must rather be set as an example to investors to see us as serious nation and have confidence in the judiciary.
We Play the trick they fear us and they will not even come.
ASEMPA 8 years ago
LOOK WHO IS TALKING.
A GHANAIAN POLITICIAN?
LOOK WHO IS TALKING.
A GHANAIAN POLITICIAN?
Humanity 8 years ago
Alas BNI et al only investigate and arrest those directed by the Gov't of the day. shame about our country, one wonders what type of people we are.
Alas BNI et al only investigate and arrest those directed by the Gov't of the day. shame about our country, one wonders what type of people we are.
Koofori 8 years ago
It is now evident that BNI and co. work for the interest of the government. If the gov. is not interested in a case, BNI is non-existence. Remember that the no.1 corrupt officials are from the government. Since this case surf ... read full comment
It is now evident that BNI and co. work for the interest of the government. If the gov. is not interested in a case, BNI is non-existence. Remember that the no.1 corrupt officials are from the government. Since this case surfaced, have you heard any comment from any of them. They are all scared to the tooth.
HUMANISM 8 years ago
GHANAIANS SHOULD TAKE THEIR CIVIC DUTIES SERIOUSLY. WE HAVE TO TAKE ELECTED LEADERS TO TASK EVERY DAY. NO ONE PERSON CAN DO THAT JOB FOR US. EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD MAKE IT HER/HIS DUTY TO BE VIGILANT ON EACH SINGLE MOVE OF O ... read full comment
GHANAIANS SHOULD TAKE THEIR CIVIC DUTIES SERIOUSLY. WE HAVE TO TAKE ELECTED LEADERS TO TASK EVERY DAY. NO ONE PERSON CAN DO THAT JOB FOR US. EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD MAKE IT HER/HIS DUTY TO BE VIGILANT ON EACH SINGLE MOVE OF OUR ELECTED LEADERS.
BNI .... AND OTHERS ARE ALL USELESS
Baba,Accra 8 years ago
Arrest Kweku Baako And Anas Now
Arrest Kweku Baako And Anas Now
Ugly akufo addo 8 years ago
This ugly idiot must be caged
This ugly idiot must be caged
Bukom Boy 8 years ago
AKUFFO ADDICT, ATAA AYI KUFFUOR , AND ASAFO MARFO ,BELONGS TO KUMASI ZOO. WHAT A COLLECTION OF UNSIGHTLY BEINGS.
AKUFFO ADDICT, ATAA AYI KUFFUOR , AND ASAFO MARFO ,BELONGS TO KUMASI ZOO. WHAT A COLLECTION OF UNSIGHTLY BEINGS.
Sammy 8 years ago
Do the citizens have to suffer at the hands of judges because we want investors? Who told Omafo Safo - Chuck that some of these so-called investors are not pleased with corruption? Do you we have institutionalised corruption ... read full comment
Do the citizens have to suffer at the hands of judges because we want investors? Who told Omafo Safo - Chuck that some of these so-called investors are not pleased with corruption? Do you we have institutionalised corruption in the so-called advanced countries? Should innocent men and women languish in jail at the hands of corrupt judges?
Kofi 8 years ago
He is a consummate prick!
He is a consummate prick!
CORNEY 8 years ago
Don't mind him,the world already knew how corrupt our system is which includes the judiciary,every sector in that country is corrupt with the NPP being the brain behind most the corruption in Ghana.
These people even don't w ... read full comment
Don't mind him,the world already knew how corrupt our system is which includes the judiciary,every sector in that country is corrupt with the NPP being the brain behind most the corruption in Ghana.
These people even don't want the police to probe their corrupt activities.
They were the people who were bribing Peter Dery who is a known sympathiser of their party if not a member for throwing away all the cases government brought against their corrupt officials,they supported that judge when he was helping them to get away with crime against the people of Ghana.
Just ignore this corrupt guy who as a Minister of Finance went to a barber's shop to get a loan in London wasting tax payers money,he should give us a break.
SBD 8 years ago
Did you understand what you read? He is insinuating that the scandal could affect investor confidence, which is very likely. I did not read anywhere in the article that Osafo-Maafo wants citizens to suffer at the hands of the ... read full comment
Did you understand what you read? He is insinuating that the scandal could affect investor confidence, which is very likely. I did not read anywhere in the article that Osafo-Maafo wants citizens to suffer at the hands of these corrupt judges. Sammmy, I don't think you read the article.
KnYc(USMC) 8 years ago
You are just a fool, and you can't read to understand. What is your problem about what this man said? Your chew and pour education has catch up with you, since you can't understand what this article is all about. MORON.
You are just a fool, and you can't read to understand. What is your problem about what this man said? Your chew and pour education has catch up with you, since you can't understand what this article is all about. MORON.
kwasi 8 years ago
Our true character should be known to the world, Mr.Macmillan/Barbering Saloon.
Our true character should be known to the world, Mr.Macmillan/Barbering Saloon.
NII 8 years ago
NPP IS A CURSE IMPOSED TO W GHANIANS.
NPP IS A CURSE IMPOSED TO W GHANIANS.
Yaw 8 years ago
Really, do you remember d planes loosing its wheels in Accra, wat of d fire nd rain, ebola, melcon, 3mil jet flight, woyome, dumsormuststop, mills, last in education, worst currency ever, gcb press car, et all... Do you remem ... read full comment
Really, do you remember d planes loosing its wheels in Accra, wat of d fire nd rain, ebola, melcon, 3mil jet flight, woyome, dumsormuststop, mills, last in education, worst currency ever, gcb press car, et all... Do you remember all... Now don't be an ndc corrupt judge.. Rethink nd type again #nonsense
SIMON PETER 8 years ago
The NPP people are always thinking of evil things to befall Ghana. This Osafo Marfo's mind and intentions are full of evil things. WHY CAN'T OSAFO MARFO RATHER SAY THAT, NOW THAT THE ROT IN THE JUDICIARY HAS BEEN EXPOSED, INV ... read full comment
The NPP people are always thinking of evil things to befall Ghana. This Osafo Marfo's mind and intentions are full of evil things. WHY CAN'T OSAFO MARFO RATHER SAY THAT, NOW THAT THE ROT IN THE JUDICIARY HAS BEEN EXPOSED, INVESTOR CONFIDENCE WILL GO UP!
Abdul sky 8 years ago
Shut up you tribalistic arse hole, you don't have to be BNI to expose corruption, we are all equally responsible in the fight against corruption, and this kind of exposure will rather boost the confidence of investors, so go ... read full comment
Shut up you tribalistic arse hole, you don't have to be BNI to expose corruption, we are all equally responsible in the fight against corruption, and this kind of exposure will rather boost the confidence of investors, so go and get your ugly head examine, kwasia.
Faya 8 years ago
Why the contradictions? Osaka, you claim the "scandal" is harmful, yet you want the BNI and other tax-payer-funded institutions to do the "investigations".
Meaning, you FEAR the media?
Why the contradictions? Osaka, you claim the "scandal" is harmful, yet you want the BNI and other tax-payer-funded institutions to do the "investigations".
Meaning, you FEAR the media?
Kofi 8 years ago
Go back and read what he said. You are an illiterate.
Go back and read what he said. You are an illiterate.
Faya 8 years ago
Kruman, why don't you point it out so I can understand, since I am illiterate!
Kruman, why don't you point it out so I can understand, since I am illiterate!
Kaboro 8 years ago
If he is "illiterate" how can he "go back and read"?
Moron Kofi, here is a definition:
il·lit·er·ate
i(l)?lid?r?t/
adjective
1.
unable to read or write.
If he is "illiterate" how can he "go back and read"?
Moron Kofi, here is a definition:
il·lit·er·ate
i(l)?lid?r?t/
adjective
1.
unable to read or write.
Dwuma 8 years ago
Booklong Kofi doesn't know "comprehension" from "illiterate"!
Faya and majority here misunderstood
what Osafo Maafo was trying to specify!
Booklong Kofi doesn't know "comprehension" from "illiterate"!
Faya and majority here misunderstood
what Osafo Maafo was trying to specify!
Kingsley 8 years ago
Investor confidence will be affected negatively by negative tribal sentiments usually expressed by Osafo Margo.
Investor confidence will be affected negatively by negative tribal sentiments usually expressed by Osafo Margo.
Tufguy 8 years ago
EOCO and BNI are all corrupt institutions and can not effectively do any good job like Anas did. They would even collect bribes from judges if they are made to investigate such cases. Forget about EOCO and BNI.
EOCO and BNI are all corrupt institutions and can not effectively do any good job like Anas did. They would even collect bribes from judges if they are made to investigate such cases. Forget about EOCO and BNI.
Katawodi3so 8 years ago
Katawodi3so
Katawodi3so
OBRONI 8 years ago
Please your opinion in this matter shows that you don't have a clue how and what investors think and what is important to them.
The General opinion of investors is already the Ghana is corrupt.
So what has changed in this o ... read full comment
Please your opinion in this matter shows that you don't have a clue how and what investors think and what is important to them.
The General opinion of investors is already the Ghana is corrupt.
So what has changed in this opinion ? Noting, it only confirms what everybody already new.
However we could turn this in something positive to attract foreign investors by prosecuting and jailing these corrupt officials.
That gives a signal to the world that Ghana is seriously fighting corruption and could have a positive effect on FDI.
Nana Poku USA 8 years ago
Leaders of corruptions will always try to shield their posse. oh[poor Ghana] when?
Leaders of corruptions will always try to shield their posse. oh[poor Ghana] when?
Solo 8 years ago
Mr Sarfo said it right . We are damaging our own self. Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt ?
Mr Sarfo said it right . We are damaging our own self. Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt ?
Faya 8 years ago
Quote: "Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt?"
So isn't that WHY they must be EXPOSED so that they watch their back and become fearful? that somebody is WATCHING??
Quote: "Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt?"
So isn't that WHY they must be EXPOSED so that they watch their back and become fearful? that somebody is WATCHING??
Dessie 8 years ago
low intelligent comment;how do we damage ourself;we rather combat corruption thast pave way for strong and vibrant economy..if we allow corruption cripple our country like what Nigeria experiencing,what a heck investors will ... read full comment
low intelligent comment;how do we damage ourself;we rather combat corruption thast pave way for strong and vibrant economy..if we allow corruption cripple our country like what Nigeria experiencing,what a heck investors will be safe for investing in hostile invironment
ADOMBA 8 years ago
Thank God for JDM for allowing all these corruptions to come out. Kuffuor thought corruption is part of human nature so why worry about, but Mahama thinks otherwise and making room for it to be exposed. God bless him
Thank God for JDM for allowing all these corruptions to come out. Kuffuor thought corruption is part of human nature so why worry about, but Mahama thinks otherwise and making room for it to be exposed. God bless him
KAY 8 years ago
The exposure could also be interpreted to mean we have the ability to unearth crime and we are bold to deal with it irrespective of who are involved. Investors know very well that there is no country under the sun without cor ... read full comment
The exposure could also be interpreted to mean we have the ability to unearth crime and we are bold to deal with it irrespective of who are involved. Investors know very well that there is no country under the sun without corrupt people. What they care for most is the preventive systems and the management of corruption. So this exposure could also mean we can eventually expose corruption and deal with it to increase investor confidence. God Bless.
Kakaminamor 8 years ago
You did the greater damage already by your ethnocentric comments. What else, Mr. Tribalism and Nepotism! Shut your ugly mouth!!!!!
You did the greater damage already by your ethnocentric comments. What else, Mr. Tribalism and Nepotism! Shut your ugly mouth!!!!!
Azumah Nelson 8 years ago
Your former boss Kufuor appointed all these Judges
Your former boss Kufuor appointed all these Judges
Senior Citizen Braunschweig Germany. 8 years ago
Some arguments on this platform are unnecessary.Instead of one to suggest something educative,they apportion blames on who appointed them.Appoinment as a judge to a high court or supreme court are done on merrit and track rec ... read full comment
Some arguments on this platform are unnecessary.Instead of one to suggest something educative,they apportion blames on who appointed them.Appoinment as a judge to a high court or supreme court are done on merrit and track records and by the racommandations of the judicial council to the president,before such sensitive appointments are made.The president does not give advice to the judges to to go and indolge in corrupt practices.It is therefore unnecessary for one to seat behind his computor and write that,it was JA Kuffour who appointed them just to suggest that he appointed these corrupt judges who took money from litigants to win their favour.My advice to lawyers and social commentators is that,they have a great responsibility to help erradicate the rot of this country which has reached the tipping point and not until dynamic efforts are being made,we shall all be heading towards a complete shipwreck.
Abanga 8 years ago
Which investors is this man talking about? Have u forgotten that John Mahama's gross display of incompetence has already driven away all investors? No serious businessman will invest in Ghana
Which investors is this man talking about? Have u forgotten that John Mahama's gross display of incompetence has already driven away all investors? No serious businessman will invest in Ghana
Kwame Sarfo 8 years ago
BNI and EOCO like many state agencies are waste of taxpayers money.We need another coup d'etat for complete house cleaning and total transformation of the country.All those who are against military intervention should show t ... read full comment
BNI and EOCO like many state agencies are waste of taxpayers money.We need another coup d'etat for complete house cleaning and total transformation of the country.All those who are against military intervention should show the alternative if we have failed to practice DEMOCRACY.Where are the soldiers?
Kwasi Poku 8 years ago
We need a complete house cleaning. Whiteman's Democracy has failed in Ghana.Where are the soldiers? There is no option at this time.We are tired.
We need a complete house cleaning. Whiteman's Democracy has failed in Ghana.Where are the soldiers? There is no option at this time.We are tired.
Kwame 8 years ago
Safo mafoh foolish man.this will encourage investers to ghana if the judges are punish
Safo mafoh foolish man.this will encourage investers to ghana if the judges are punish
Kwame 8 years ago
Punish the judges
Punish the judges
Mugu Yaro 8 years ago
Nana the finest ever
Nana Addo the finest politician to ever walk on ghana after Nkrumah.so much love for u nana always for the poor and so much love for his country.
Nana the finest ever
Nana Addo the finest politician to ever walk on ghana after Nkrumah.so much love for u nana always for the poor and so much love for his country.
Dessie 8 years ago
In what sense..how does judicial scandal affect investors confidence?..
In what sense..how does judicial scandal affect investors confidence?..
Anyigba 8 years ago
Has MAAFO OSAFO asMr. Kofi Wayo calls him, forgotten about his pronouncement on Tribalism and Nepotism.This could also affect investor confidence for that matter internal conflicts?. He should close his mouth and rather conce ... read full comment
Has MAAFO OSAFO asMr. Kofi Wayo calls him, forgotten about his pronouncement on Tribalism and Nepotism.This could also affect investor confidence for that matter internal conflicts?. He should close his mouth and rather concentrate on N.P.P's great falling......
Kofi 8 years ago
The BNI and EOCO are there only to protect the NDC government. They only protect government functionaries.
The BNI and EOCO are there only to protect the NDC government. They only protect government functionaries.
G M A 8 years ago
Hon Oaf Marfi, please come trays on your ethnocentric remarks and ideas & stop spelling doom for this country. I pray that you are forgiven for your thinking that Ghana belongs to only akyems. May you reap what you sow. We ew ... read full comment
Hon Oaf Marfi, please come trays on your ethnocentric remarks and ideas & stop spelling doom for this country. I pray that you are forgiven for your thinking that Ghana belongs to only akyems. May you reap what you sow. We ewes, gas, adangmes, northerners others know you. Adieu.
Yiddana 8 years ago
The BNI is sleeping on the wheel. They harass petty criminals while white criminals go untouched.
The BNI is sleeping on the wheel. They harass petty criminals while white criminals go untouched.
francis 8 years ago
what is mr Sarfo marfo talking about, is it not his government that appointed most of this corrupt judges into the chambers . lets go back to records to find out how many of this corrupt judges where appointed by the eastword ... read full comment
what is mr Sarfo marfo talking about, is it not his government that appointed most of this corrupt judges into the chambers . lets go back to records to find out how many of this corrupt judges where appointed by the eastword administration of mr john kuffour, non of the judges is question was appointed by the NDC government. NPP appointed all this judges . Sarfo margo should go to hello for his doom saying. God is watching, they will lose again and again.
Nokware_ Asa 8 years ago
Shenanigans some of you folks have embarked on, to run duly elected party executives out of your own party, for fighting against corruption?
Remember your cabal is not yet in control of our national purse; please
check your ... read full comment
Shenanigans some of you folks have embarked on, to run duly elected party executives out of your own party, for fighting against corruption?
Remember your cabal is not yet in control of our national purse; please
check your own past behaviour, my brother, and 'DO NOT BRING YOURSELF'!
My Opinon 8 years ago
I thought while you were at it you would mention Martin Amidu's treatment he suffered at the hands of your NDC for trying to fight Corruption in the party. The presidency would be next then we'll see what you would say.
I thought while you were at it you would mention Martin Amidu's treatment he suffered at the hands of your NDC for trying to fight Corruption in the party. The presidency would be next then we'll see what you would say.
Ghanaman 8 years ago
Is true, EOCO n BNI shld be up n doing. They shld b Anas nxt Target
Is true, EOCO n BNI shld be up n doing. They shld b Anas nxt Target
Dela. Lagos 8 years ago
Osafo Marfo do you listen to yourself. Can't you see preaching tribal politics is far dangerous to scare investors.? Shame on you. Oluman bor nie.
Osafo Marfo do you listen to yourself. Can't you see preaching tribal politics is far dangerous to scare investors.? Shame on you. Oluman bor nie.
kofi Atinga 8 years ago
Listen to him.osafo marfo shud not women at all.look at pot calin kettle black.who is more corrupt than osafo marfo shud
Listen to him.osafo marfo shud not women at all.look at pot calin kettle black.who is more corrupt than osafo marfo shud
OYIKO 8 years ago
We don't have to believe any agency, department, institutions and government in Ghana. We are all corrupt. Even with the pastors in our system. It is sad that nothing is moving well in Ghana. We are too selfish and wicked.
We don't have to believe any agency, department, institutions and government in Ghana. We are all corrupt. Even with the pastors in our system. It is sad that nothing is moving well in Ghana. We are too selfish and wicked.
Kristopher, Nyanyano 8 years ago
Osafo Maafo saying what? U should know that even your tribalistic comments is enough to dent investor confidence.
Osafo Maafo saying what? U should know that even your tribalistic comments is enough to dent investor confidence.
B. K 8 years ago
See who is talking, you have no credibility I thought you were a matured man, not knowing tribal bigot ,who thinks Ghana should be ruled by certain people,
See who is talking, you have no credibility I thought you were a matured man, not knowing tribal bigot ,who thinks Ghana should be ruled by certain people,
joe navajo 8 years ago
99.99% of institutions in Ghana are all corrupt. When is the next coup?
99.99% of institutions in Ghana are all corrupt. When is the next coup?
EZEKIEL 8 years ago
Yes,you generate investor confidence when you go to SIGN a CONTRACT IN GERMAN LANGUAGE without understanding WHAT you were signing !!!!!
INVESTOR CONFIDENCE INDEED !!!!!!!
Holier -than-thou-fool !
Yes,you generate investor confidence when you go to SIGN a CONTRACT IN GERMAN LANGUAGE without understanding WHAT you were signing !!!!!
INVESTOR CONFIDENCE INDEED !!!!!!!
Holier -than-thou-fool !
bee lee 8 years ago
ask urself mr president to be!
ask urself mr president to be!
Ali mumuni 8 years ago
Ppl so soon forget when JJ told u ghanafo3 that that 70 percent of the current gov't are corrupt the whole world watch so if maafo say something abt why are you talking
Ppl so soon forget when JJ told u ghanafo3 that that 70 percent of the current gov't are corrupt the whole world watch so if maafo say something abt why are you talking
JH. New York 8 years ago
I do not agree with Hon Osafo Maafo. It's time Ghanaians discard these kinds of "African ideas"!.
I think the Judiciary Scandal would rather Boost Invester Confidence if the
Video is not Swept Under the Carpet but Shown on ... read full comment
I do not agree with Hon Osafo Maafo. It's time Ghanaians discard these kinds of "African ideas"!.
I think the Judiciary Scandal would rather Boost Invester Confidence if the
Video is not Swept Under the Carpet but Shown on National TV, for the information of the general Public and appropriate action taken,including but not limited to:(1)Swift Arrest and
Retrial of the Culprits(criminals) according to due processes of the Law,(2) Arrests of Judges, Judiciary Staff and Others Involved and Swiftly Prosecuted and Severely Purnished, including Refund of the amounts (bribes) involved in the Scandal to gov't Chest,etc. That is the way forward!.
Menaba 8 years ago
You should also have been investigated for sending Ghana to a hairdressing saloon for a loan
You should also have been investigated for sending Ghana to a hairdressing saloon for a loan
Bright Boadu 8 years ago
AFTER ALL , THE SO-CALLED INVESTORS WILL COME; FOOL AND CHEAT THEIR EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY (INVESTORS ) KNOW THAT THEY CAN BRIBE THE JUDGES AND GO AWAY FREELY.
AFTER ALL , THE SO-CALLED INVESTORS WILL COME; FOOL AND CHEAT THEIR EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY (INVESTORS ) KNOW THAT THEY CAN BRIBE THE JUDGES AND GO AWAY FREELY.
Happy As Larry in a Candy Shop 8 years ago
MAY GOD HELP OUR MOTHER GHANA!!
To those thinking that foreign investor's don't know our judicial system is corrupt, wake up for you are in the dark.... That is why the Lebanese brag openly, that they have colonized Afric ... read full comment
MAY GOD HELP OUR MOTHER GHANA!!
To those thinking that foreign investor's don't know our judicial system is corrupt, wake up for you are in the dark.... That is why the Lebanese brag openly, that they have colonized Africa through corruption. They added "everyone has a price, including the president, It's never a question of whether or not it's possible to bribe them, rather a question of, How much". SADDLY THIS CONFESSION BY THE KNOWN LEBANESE MAN IS THE HASH TRUTH!
The European investors opinion; "It's pointless going to court for redress, IN A COURT WHERE THE TRUTH DOESNT MATTER".
Ghanaians have sort to prayers and other demonic powers some as to kill the other party to administer spiritual Justice themselves.
Readers; Are you ALL not disguised by these damming Expose, confirmed that CJ has viewed the tape and suspend Judges, and queried others?" Taking bribe from an armed robber, murder to get them off the hook. Oh dear!.... Oh dear..... My heart is failing....
One major problem most Ghanaians, particularly our men have is lack is integrity!!!! That is a precipitation factor of corruption in the entire system not only the Judiciary. The public reaction towards the Judiciary is mainly because we go to them for redress. And taking bribe from a murderer, arm robber to "let them off the hook". Is heart recking!
JOEJO 8 years ago
BNI ARE CORRUPT THAN ANY ORGANIZATION IN GHANA
BNI ARE CORRUPT THAN ANY ORGANIZATION IN GHANA
inercycl 8 years ago
Did their job diligently sir, you would also be sitting in the slammer. Some things are better not said
Did their job diligently sir, you would also be sitting in the slammer. Some things are better not said
James Yeboah-Asuamah 8 years ago
I'm 200% in agreement with Mr. Marfo. These state owned investigative bodies must be ashamed of themselves. I wish some are fired because they're equally thieves and nation wreckers. Their duties are no more required! Shame! ... read full comment
I'm 200% in agreement with Mr. Marfo. These state owned investigative bodies must be ashamed of themselves. I wish some are fired because they're equally thieves and nation wreckers. Their duties are no more required! Shame! shame! thieves!
Victor A. Young 8 years ago
BIN and the security agencies are being influenced by the NDC gov't. They will chase people and harass others for nothingwwhile the real criminals walk freely on our streets.They're bogus wasting tax-payers money for nothing!
BIN and the security agencies are being influenced by the NDC gov't. They will chase people and harass others for nothingwwhile the real criminals walk freely on our streets.They're bogus wasting tax-payers money for nothing!
Musah 8 years ago
They saw the seed of corruption in the judiciary by twisting the judiciary to jail Tsatsu and packed the supreme court with their cronies to deliver the final blow to Tsatsu. So we got to know that though these things do happ ... read full comment
They saw the seed of corruption in the judiciary by twisting the judiciary to jail Tsatsu and packed the supreme court with their cronies to deliver the final blow to Tsatsu. So we got to know that though these things do happen, but we can not do it in the open because Kuffour did it in the open.
CONCERN PEOPLE OF GHANA WORLD WIDE 8 years ago
OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF JUSTICE, DEAR MADAM , THE 11 JUDDERS WHO HAVE PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT THEIR NOT CORRUPT, LOVE GHANA, GHANAIAN S, LOVE THEIR COUNTRY SHOULD BE ELEVATED, PROMOTED AND MADE HEROES FOR THE WHOLE WORLD T ... read full comment
OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF JUSTICE, DEAR MADAM , THE 11 JUDDERS WHO HAVE PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT THEIR NOT CORRUPT, LOVE GHANA, GHANAIAN S, LOVE THEIR COUNTRY SHOULD BE ELEVATED, PROMOTED AND MADE HEROES FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE,. GHANA PEOPLE ARE PROUD OF THEM.
THE REST SHOULD BE THE GIVEN FAIR TRY AND IF FOUND GUILTY SHOULD BE GIVEN THE GREATEST PRISON SENTENCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE GHANA FOR COMING GENERATION TO SEE,HEAR AND READ, GHANA IS NOW AT A CROSS ROAD AND OUR DESTINY IS IN OUR OWN HAND, GHANA PEOPLE WANT TRUTH AND JUSTICE, GOD BLESS GHANA .FROM CONCERN PEOPLE OF GHANA ALL OVER THE WORLD
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ. 8 years ago
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, BARRISTER-AT LAW, QCL, PLC, DPA, CPA, BA (HONS) {GHANA}, MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) {NEW YORK, USA} PENDING, MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL (WORLD/GLOBAL) BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, ASSO ... read full comment
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, BARRISTER-AT LAW, QCL, PLC, DPA, CPA, BA (HONS) {GHANA}, MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) {NEW YORK, USA} PENDING, MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL (WORLD/GLOBAL) BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATE MEMBER, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION
EBAA LAW CONSULT
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FLOOR
P.O. BOX AN 5966
ACCRA.
GHANA.
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BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
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TO: HER LADYSHIP CHIEF JUSTICE OF GHANA GEORGINA THEODORA WOOD
HON. MINISTER OF JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GHANA MARIETTA BREW
APPIAH OPPONG
HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE OF SUPREME COURT ADINYIRA
HON. PRESIDENT OF GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION NENE AMEGATCHER
INFO TO:
H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA DR.JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA
H.E.VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA KWESI AMISSAH ARTHUR
RT.HON.SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT OF GHANA EDWARD DOE ADZAHO
HON. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & REGIONAL INTEGRATION HANNAH TETTEY
HON. MINISTER OF INTERIOR
INSPECTOR GENERAL OF GHANA POLICE SERVICE MOHAMMED ALHASSAN
DIRECTOR OF BNI
SPECIAL INFO ALERT TO:
H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BARACK OBAMA
HON. SECRETARY OF STATE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOHN KERRY
DIRECTOR OF FBI
DATE: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
SUBJECT: AMICUS CURIAE BRIEF ON BEHALF OF THE JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND STAFF OF THE JUDICIAL SERVICE PURPORTED TO BE IMPLICATED BY THE SECRET VIDEO EXPOSE OF ANAS AMEREYAW ANAS TAKING COGNIZANCE OF ARTICLE 18 (2) OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION, THE EVIDENCE ACT AND THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF DECLARATIONS OF FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS, THERETO.
IT IS A TRITE LAW AND KNOWLEDGE THAT ANYTHING THAT TOUCHES AND CONCERNS "VIOLATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS IS EQUALLY WRONG TO ADOPT "ILLEGAL AND CLANDESTINE SECRET MEANS TO OBTAIN ILLEGAL MATERIAL".
IT IS THEREFORE IN VIEW OF THE ABOVE THAT I AM RESPECTFULLY REFERRING TO ANAS AMEREYAW PHOTOGRAPHS BELOW AS EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE ILLEGAL AND SECRET CLANDESTINE METHODS ADOPTED TO OBTAIN ILLEGAL MATERIALS/EVIDENCE, THERETO, BELOW:
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IT IS THEREFORE AT THESE RELATED BACKDROPS THAT I AM AGAIN REVISITING AND TO PUT SAME IN ISSUE THE CASE THAT I HAVE ALREADY MADE AS FOLLOWS:
RE: THE LEGAL ISSUES RAISED BY THE ANAS AREMEYAW SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE 34 JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND 100 JUDICIAL STAFFS AND THE LEGAL POSITIONS AS A WAY FORWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA JURISPRUDENCE.REFRESHING MEMORIES AND UPDATE NOTES FOR THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PROTECTION OF ARTICLE 18 CLAUSES 1 & 2 OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF DECLARATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND
TAKING ALSO COGNIZANCE OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AS FOLLOWS:
UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
"Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour/honor and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks."
THAT A CLEAR CLASSICS CASES THAT CALL FOR THE PROTECTIONS OF SUCH CONSTITUTIONAL LAW RELATED RIGHTS ARE THE SECRET VIDEO TAPE RECORDINGS OF THE FOLLOWING WORLD LEADERS WHEN HIS/HER EXCELLENCIES WERE EVEN AT THE TOILETS AND THEIR PRIVACY WERE VIOLATED BY THE "SECRET ILLEGAL VIDEO RECORDERS FOR MISCHIEF AND OTHER CRIMINAL RELATED INTENDED PURPOSES, THERETO, AS FOLLOWS:
(i) H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BARACK OBAMA
(ii) HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II
(iii) HIS PAPACY HOLY FATHER POPE FRANCIS !
(iv) H.E.RT.HON.PRIME MINISTER OF UNITED KINGDOM DAVID CAMERON
(v) H.E.PRESIDENT OF FRANCE FRANCOIS HOLLANDE
(vi) H.E. GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL
(vii) H.E.RT.HON.PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL BENJAMIN NETANYAHU
(viii)H.E.PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA VLADAMIR PUTIN
(ix) H.E. UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY GENERAL BAN-KI MOON
(x) HON. DALA MAI
THAT IT IS AGAINST THESE RELATED BACKDROPS THAT THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL OF GHANA, GOVERNMENT OF GHANA AND THE CIVILIZED WORLD TO CONSIDER IN THE BEST NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LAW INTERESTS TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS TO PRIVACY TO HELP REMOVE THE THREAT IT POSES TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD WHILE TO ADOPT A MORE OPEN AND TRANSPARENT MEANS AND WAYS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND CORRUPT PRACTICES NOT ONLY IN GHANA BUT ALSO IN THE CIVILIZED WORLD.
HOWEVER, MY RESPECTFUL SUBMISSION IS NOT INTENDED TO PLAY DOWN ON ANAS AMEREYAW SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS INVESTIGATIONS SINCE "IGNORANCE OF THE LAW IS NO EXCUSED OF THE LAW" BUT TO HELP TO ENCOURAGE HIM AND OTHERS WITH GOODWILL AND GOOD INTENTIONS TO FIGHT CORRUPTION AND CORRUPT PRACTICES TO DO IT WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF THE LAW, THERETO.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
GOD BLESS GHANA, AMERICA, UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED NATIONS.
VERY TRULY YOURS,
BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ.
INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
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BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, BARRISTER-AT LAW, QCL, PLC, DPA, CPA, BA (HONS) {GHANA}, MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) {NEW YORK, USA} PENDING, MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL (WORLD/GLOBAL) BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, ASSOCIATE MEMBER, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION
EBAA LAW CONSULT
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ACCRA.
GHANA.
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BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT
TEL: 0545758633
MOBILE NO: 0245848560
NOTE: (SENDING THIS E-MAIL AT HO IN THE VOLTA REGION OF GHANA)
TO: HER LADYSHIP CHIEF JUSTICE OF GHANA GEORGINA THEODORA WOOD
HON. MINISTER OF JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GHANA MARIETTA BREW APPIAH-OPPONG
HON. JUDICIAL SECRETARY OF GHANA
HON. PRESIDENT OF GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION NENE AMEGATCHER
INFO TO:
H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA DR. JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA
H.E.VICE PRESIDENT OF GHANA KWESI AMISSAH ARTHUR
RT. HON. SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT OF GHANA EDWARD DOE ADZAHO
HON. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS & REGIONAL INTEGRATION HANNAH TETTEY
HON. MINISTER OF VOLTA REGION OF GHANA HELEN ADJOA NTOSU
SPECIAL INFO ALERT TO:
H.E.DR.MR.PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BARACK OBAMA
H.E. RT. HON.PRIME MINISTER OF UNITED KINGDOM DAVID CAMERON
HON. SECRETARY GENERAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH
HON. SECRETARY OF STATE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA JOHN KERRY
DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2015
HON. CHIEF OF STAFF AT FLAGSTAFF HOUSE JULIUS DEBRAH
SUBJECT:THE LEGAL ISSUES RAISED BY THE ANAS AREMEYAW SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE 34 JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND 100 JUDICIAL STAFFS AND THE LEGAL POSITIONS AS A WAY FORWARD FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF GHANA JURISPRUDENCE.
MAY I RESPECTFULLY AND HUMBLY SUBMIT MY CANDID OPINION ON THE ABOVE RELATED DICEY MATTER FIRST AS A GHANAIAN LAWYER WHO ALSO BELONGED TO OTHER BAR ASSOCIATIONS AND AS INTERNATIONAL LAWYER/LEGAL CONSULTANT.
THAT IT IS A TRITE LAW AND KNOWLEDGE THAT MATTERS/ISSUES THAT HINGED ON THE LAW ARE DEEMED TO SEEN AND TO BE TREATED FROM THE LEGAL "PAR LANCE" PERSPECTIVE POINTS OF LEGAL VIEWS.
THIS IS BECAUSE MATTERS CONCERNING LAW AND MORALS ARE SEEN DIFFERENTLY SO FAR AS THE LAW IS CONCERNED.
IT IS THEREFORE IN THE LIGHT OF ABOVE THAT THE LAWS OF GHANA AS OTHER LAWS OF OTHER COUNTRIES ARE ALSO CODIFIED OR WRITTEN, THERETO.
THAT THE LEGAL SYSTEMS OF GHANA BELONG TO THE "COMMON LAW TRADITION/JURISDICTION" AND FOR THAT MATTER THE "COMMON LAW" IS PART OF THE LAWS OF GHANA AND GHANA CAN THEREFORE RESERVED THE RIGHT TO CITE OR USE THE CASE LAWS OF THE "COMMON LAW JURISDICTIONS".
THAT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND UNITED KINGDOM AS OTHER COUNTRIES BELONGED TO THE "COMMON LAW TRADITIONS/JURISDICTIONS" AND THEREFORE GHANA JUDICIAL AND LEGAL SYSTEMS CAN AND COULD CITE CASE LAWS FROM THESE JURISDICTIONS AS "PERSUASIVE AUTHORITIES", THERETO.
THAT TAKING COGNIZANCE ALSO OF THE FACT THAT GHANA IS A SIGNITORIES TO INTERNATIONAL TREATIES AND CONVENTIONS UNDER THE COMMONWEALTH, UNITED NATIONS, AFRICAN UNION, ECOWAS AND OTHERS, THERETO.
HOWEVER, IT IS SUFFICIENT JUST TO CITE ONLY THESE FEW INSTANCES ABOVE AND TO RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THAT "ALL APPLICABLE LAWS ARE DEEM TO APPLY TO A CASE AT THE COURTS OF LAW WHENEVER, THERE IS ENSUING LITIGATION, THERETO.
THAT UNDER GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION, CRIMINAL LAW, CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW AND THE EVIDENCE ACT INCLUDING THE INTERNATIONAL LAW ARE DEEM TO APPLY TO THE CASE OF ANAS AMEREYAW SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS OF GHANA 34 JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND OVER 100 JUDICIAL STAFF PURPORTED TO BE SECRETLY VIDEO BY ANS THAT ALLEGED CORRUPTION AND CORRUPT PRACTICES OF THE JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND THE JUDICIAL STAFF AS PUBLISHED BELOW BY THE "STARR FM ONLINE".
THAT AS A GHANAIAN LAWYER, INTERNATIONAL LAWYER AND LEGAL CONSULTANT THAT IT BEHOOVES ON ME TO RENDER MY CANDID LEGAL OPINION ON THE MATTER TO HELP IN THE EXPOSITION OF THE LEGAL POSITIONS ON THE MATTER TO HELP ADVANCE THE COURSE/CAUSE OF JUSTICE AND THE RULE OF LAW.
THAT GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION CLEARLY PROVIDES FOR THE PROTECTION OF PRIVACY OF HOMES AND PROPERTY AS FOLLOWS:
GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION
PROTECTION OF PRIVACY OF HOME AND OTHER PROPERTY
"
18. (1) Every person has the right to own property either alone or in association with others.
(2) No person shall be subjected to interference with the privacy of his home, property, correspondence or communication except in accordance with law and as may be necessary in a free and democratic society for public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the protection of the rights or freedoms of others "
THAT FOR THE AVOIDANCE OF ANY RELATED DOUBTS, WHATSOEVER, THAT I PERSONALLY WILL NEVER CONDONE CRIME AND MOREOVER TO PURPORT TO DEFEND CRIME, HOWEVER, AS GHANAIAN LAWYER, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND LEGAL CONSULTANT IT BEHOOVES ON ME TO HELP STATE THE POSITIONS OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND ALL OTHER LAWS THAT ARE DEEM TO APPLY TO THE CASE UNDER REVIEW AND IN VIEW ALSO OF THE POSITIONS OF
THE SAME LAWS PROTECTING ANAS AMEREYAW WHEN HE UNDERTOOK THAT ONEROUS RESPONSIBILITY, THERETO.
THAT IT IS IN VIEW OF SUCH LEGAL ANALYSIS THAT CLEARLY CALLS TO ISSUE TO PROPER AND TRUE INTERPRETATION OF ARTICLE 18 (2) OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION THAT PROVIDES FOR
No person shall be subjected to interference with the privacy of his home, property, correspondence or communication except in accordance with law and as may be necessary in a free and democratic society for public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the protection of the rights or freedoms of others "
IT IS IN LIGHT OF THE ABOVE THAT MAKES ANAS AMEREYAW CASE VERY DICEY AND THE LEGAL ISSUE THEREFORE TO BE DETERMINED "WHETHER OR NOT BEFORE ANAS EMBARKED ON HIS SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS INVESTIGATIONS OF THE JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND OTHER JUDICIAL STAFF HE WAS SUPPOSED TO OBTAIN "A VALID COURT ORDER AS A PROTECTION?"
FURTHER, WHETHER OR NOT HIS PETITION TO H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA DR.JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA AND HON.MINISTER OF JUSTICE & ATTORNEY GENERAL OF GHANA MARIETTA BREW APPIAH-OPPONG WHEN HE PRESENTED HIS SECRET INVESTIGATIONS REPORT AND HE WAS GRANTED "IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS" SERVED AS A RELIEF FROM NOT OBTAINING THE VALID COURT ORDER BEFORE EMBARKING ON THE SECRET INVESTIGATIONS, THERETO? OR THE "IMMUNITY FROM CIVIL AND CRIMINAL LIABILITIES HAS BEEN BACK DATED TO COVER THE BEGINNING OF THE SECRET INVESTIGATIONS, THERETO?"
IF YES, THEN WHAT IS THE POSITION OF THE RULE OF LAW? BUT IF THE ANSWER IS NO THEN WHAT IS THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS, THERETO?
THAT IT IS MY RESPECTFUL AND HUMBLE SUBMISSION THAT ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE RELATED QUESTIONS WILL HELP PAVE WAY TO THE RESOLUTIONS OR DETERMINATIONS OF THE ANAS CASE, THERETO.
THAT THE LEGISLATIVE HISTORY AND LEGISLATIVE INTENT OF ARTICLE 18 CLAUSES1 & 2 TO BE TAKEN A JUDICIAL NOTICE AT WHEN BOTH GHANA JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND LAWYERS DEDICATED EVERY YEAR JUNE 30 AS "MATYRS DAY" AND DULY OBSERVED SAME SINCE OUR DEAR THREE (3) HIGH COURT JUSTICES AND ARMY OFFICER WERE ALL PICKED UP FROM THEIR VARIOUS HOUSES AND WERE MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD AND BURNT INTO ASHES INCLUDING THE LATE MR.ANKRA FROM AGORTIME- AFEGAME WHO WAS ALSO PICKED FROM HIS HOUSE AT NIGHT AND MURDERED IN COLD BLOOD AND ALSO BURNT IN ASHES. HOWEVER, HIS CASE NEVER RECEIVED NATIONAL ATTENTION AS IT OUGHT TO GAIN AT THE TIME.
THAT REALLY CALLS FOR THE NEED TO PROTECT THE PRIVACY OF HOMES AND PROPERTY.
THAT IN THE CASE OF CLEMENCE ATIASU VRS. THE REPUBLIC (SUIT NO.P22CLEMENT ATIA/9/2015) THAT CAME ON APPEAL AT THE HIGH COURT-2, HO IN THE VOLTA REGION OF GHANA PRESIDED OVER BY HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE PATRICK BAAYEH THAT SIMILAR ARGUMENTS WERE MADE BY ME WHEN I WAS THE COUNSEL FOR THE APPELLANT WHEN THE POLICE OF THE NARCOTIC UNIT FROM THE VOLTA REGIONAL POLICE HEADQUARTERS WITHOUT "A VALID SEARCH WARRANT" CONDUCTED AN ILLEGAL SEARCH AT 4.30AM AT THE APPELLANT HOUSE AT KPEDZE IN THE VOLTA REGION AT THE TIME THE APPELLANT JUST RETURNED FROM A FUNERAL AT AVE- DAKPA AT 9.30PM WHEN HE INTIMATED THAT SOMEONE POSED A THREAT AGAINST HIS LIFE THAT HE WAS GOING TO SHOW HIM AND AT DAWN POLICE OFFICERS FROM THE NARCOTICS UNIT CAME TO HIS HOUSE AND CONDUCTED ILLEGAL SEARCH AND RETRIEVED "CANIBIS" WHICH TESTED POSITIVE AND HE WAS CHARGED FOR CULTIVATION AND POSSESSION OF "CANIBIS SUBSTANCE".
THAT THE ARGUMENTS I MADE USING ARTICLE 18 (2) OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND THE EVIDENCE ACT AND THE CRIMINAL PROCEDURE LAW THAT THE HIGH COURT TO OVER-TURN THE CIRCUIT COURT JUDGEMENT AND TO ACQUIT AND DISCHARGE THE APPELLANT WAS REJECTED BY THE HIGH COURT AND EVEN THE CASE MADE ON THE APPELLANT SERIOUS HEALTH CONDITIONS REPORTED BY HO PRISON MEDIUM AUTHORITIES WAS ALSO REJECTED BY THE HIGH COURT.
HOWEVER, HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE PATRICK BAAYEH IN HIS JUDGEMENT CLEARLY STATED THAT IT IS ONLY H.E.PRESIDENT OF GHANA DR.JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA ALONE WHO CAN OR COULD GRANT THE APPELLANT PARDON.
IT IS THEREFORE, SURPRISING THAT THE APPELLANT HAS NOT BEEN GRANTED THE PARDON UPTIL NOW.
IT IS THEREFORE, MY RESPECTFUL AND HUMBLE SUBMISSION THAT LEGAL EFFECT TO BE GIVEN IN A FAIR MEANS AND MANNER TO THE INTERPRETATIONS AND APPLICATIONS OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND OTHER LAWS OF GHANA TAKING INTO CONTEMPLATION ALSO THE INTERNATIONAL LAW.
IT IS THEREFORE AT THESE RELATED BACKDROPS THAT I AM RESPECTFULLY OBLIGED TO REFER TO THE EVIDENCE ACT OF GHANA AND GHANA COMMUNICATIONS ACT AND HUMBLY SUBMIT AS FOLLOWS:
THAT SECTION 94 OF THE EVIDENCE ACT (ACT 30/60) DULY PROVIDES AGAINST "ILLEGAL SEARCHES, THAT IS, SEARCHES WITHOUT A VALID SEARCH WARRANT BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION".
THAT IN THE CASE OF ANAS WHO CONDUCTED A SECRET VIDEO RECORDINGS OF THE JUDGES/MAGISTRATES IN QUESTION WITHOUT OBTAINING "A VALID COURT ORDER" IN VIEW OF THE EXCLUSIONARY EVIDENTIAL RULES THAT "ANY ILLEGAL MATERIAL OBTAINED THROUGH ILLEGAL MEANS THAT THE EVIDENTIAL ILLEGAL MATERIALS ARE EXCLUSIVE FROM THE RECORDS OF THE PROCEEDINGS AND IF THEY ARE ALLOWED TO ENTER THE RECORDS IT SERVED AS "POISONOUS" UNDER THE "DOCTRINE OF THE POISONOUS TREE, A PRINCIPLE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND IN GHANA UNDER THE EXCLUSIONARY EVIDENCE RULE THAT SUCH ILLEGAL OBTAINED MATERIALS TO BE 'EXPUNGED FROM THE RECORDS OF THE PROCEEDINGS".
THEREFORE, THE SECRET VIDEO TAPE RECORDINGS OF ANAS AMEREYAW CLEARLY FALLS UNDER THE EXCLUSIONARY EVIDENCE RULE AND TO BE RENDERED A NULLITY, THERETO.
THAT TAKING ALSO COGNIZANCE OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS AS FOLLOWS:
UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF UNIVERSAL DECLARATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
IT IS THEREFORE FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE AND PROTECTIONS OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND THE INTERNATIONAL LAW THAT I AM RESPECTFULLY CITING THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CASE BELOW AS "A PERSUASIVE AUTHORITY" AND ALSO TO HELP GHANA JUDICIAL COUNCIL AND GOVERNMENT OF GHANA TO HELP REFORM GHANA JUDICIAL SYSTEM TO REALLY FIT INTO THE GLOBAL LEGAL AND JUDICIAL SYSTEMS OF THE 21ST CENTURY WORLD TO HELP DEVELOP GHANA JURISPRUDENCE AS A WAY FORWARD, THERETO.
PLEASE, REFER TO THE CASE BELOW:
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOURTH (4TH) AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA RIGHTS AND CASE LAW AS AN "ORBITA DICTA" OR PERSUASIVE AUTHORITY:
United States Supreme Court
MAPP v. OHIO, (1961)
No. 236
Argued: March 29, 1961 Decided: June 19, 1961
All evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Federal Constitution is inadmissible in a criminal trial in a state court. Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25 , overruled insofar as it holds to the contrary. Pp. 643-660.
170 Ohio St. 427, 166 N. E. 2d 387, reversed.
A. L. Kearns argued the cause for appellant. With him on the brief was Walter L. Greene.
Gertrude Bauer Mahon argued the cause for appellee. With her on the brief was John T. Corrigan.
Bernard A. Berkman argued the cause for the American Civil Liberties Union et al., as amici curiae, urging reversal. With him on the brief was Rowland Watts.
MR. JUSTICE CLARK delivered the opinion of the Court.
Appellant stands convicted of knowingly having had in her possession and under her control certain lewd and lascivious books, pictures, and photographs in violation of 2905.34 of Ohio's Revised Code. 1 As officially stated in the syllabus to its opinion, the Supreme Court of Ohio found that her conviction was valid though "based primarily upon the introduction in evidence of lewd and lascivious books and pictures unlawfully seized during an unlawful search of defendant's home . . . ." 170 Ohio St. 427-428, 166 N. E. 2d 387, 388. [367 U.S. 643, 644]
On May 23, 1957, three Cleveland police officers arrived at appellant's residence in that city pursuant to information that "a person [was] hiding out in the home, who was wanted for questioning in connection with a recent bombing, and that there was a large amount of policy paraphernalia being hidden in the home." Miss Mapp and her daughter by a former marriage lived on the top floor of the two-family dwelling. Upon their arrival at that house, the officers knocked on the door and demanded entrance but appellant, after telephoning her attorney, refused to admit them without a search warrant. They advised their headquarters of the situation and undertook a surveillance of the house.
The officers again sought entrance some three hours later when four or more additional officers arrived on the scene. When Miss Mapp did not come to the door immediately, at least one of the several doors to the house was forcibly opened 2 and the policemen gained admittance. Meanwhile Miss Mapp's attorney arrived, but the officers, having secured their own entry, and continuing in their defiance of the law, would permit him neither to see Miss Mapp nor to enter the house. It appears that Miss Mapp was halfway down the stairs from the upper floor to the front door when the officers, in this highhanded manner, broke into the hall. She demanded to see the search warrant. A paper, claimed to be a warrant, was held up by one of the officers. She grabbed the "warrant" and placed it in her bosom. A struggle ensued in which the officers recovered the piece of paper and as a result of which they handcuffed appellant because she had been "belligerent" [367 U.S. 643, 645] in resisting their official rescue of the "warrant" from her person. Running roughshod over appellant, a policeman "grabbed" her, "twisted [her] hand," and she "yelled [and] pleaded with him" because "it was hurting." Appellant, in handcuffs, was then forcibly taken upstairs to her bedroom where the officers searched a dresser, a chest of drawers, a closet and some suitcases. They also looked into a photo album and through personal papers belonging to the appellant. The search spread to the rest of the second floor including the child's bedroom, the living room, the kitchen and a dinette. The basement of the building and a trunk found therein were also searched. The obscene materials for possession of which she was ultimately convicted were discovered in the course of that widespread search.
At the trial no search warrant was produced by the prosecution, nor was the failure to produce one explained or accounted for. At best, "There is, in the record, considerable doubt as to whether there ever was any warrant for the search of defendant's home." 170 Ohio St., at 430, 166 N. E. 2d, at 389. The Ohio Supreme Court believed a "reasonable argument" could be made that the conviction should be reversed "because the `methods' employed to obtain the [evidence] . . . were such as to `offend "a sense of justice,"'" but the court found determinative the fact that the evidence had not been taken "from defendant's person by the use of brutal or offensive physical force against defendant." 170 Ohio St., at 431, 166 N. E. 2d, at 389-390.
The State says that even if the search were made without authority, or otherwise unreasonably, it is not prevented from using the unconstitutionally seized evidence at trial, citing Wolf v. Colorado, 338 U.S. 25 (1949), in which this Court did indeed hold "that in a prosecution in a State court for a State crime the Fourteenth Amendment [367 U.S. 643, 646] does not forbid the admission of evidence obtained by an unreasonable search and seizure." At p. 33. On this appeal, of which we have noted probable jurisdiction, 364 U.S. 868 , it is urged once again that we review that holding. 3
I.
Seventy-five years ago, in Boyd v. United States, 116 U.S. 616, 630 (1886), considering the Fourth 4 and Fifth Amendments as running "almost into each other" 5 on the facts before it, this Court held that the doctrines of those Amendments
"apply to all invasions on the part of the government and its employes of the sanctity of a man's home and the privacies of life. It is not the breaking of his doors, and the rummaging of his drawers, [367 U.S. 643, 647] that constitutes the essence of the offence; but it is the invasion of his indefeasible right of personal security, personal liberty and private property . . . . Breaking into a house and opening boxes and drawers are circumstances of aggravation; but any forcible and compulsory extortion of a man's own testimony or of his private papers to be used as evidence to convict him of crime or to forfeit his goods, is within the condemnation . . . [of those Amendments]."
The Court noted that
"constitutional provisions for the security of person and property should be liberally construed. . . . It is the duty of courts to be watchful for the constitutional rights of the citizen, and against any stealthy encroachments thereon." At p. 635.
In this jealous regard for maintaining the integrity of individual rights, the Court gave life to Madison's prediction that "independent tribunals of justice . . . will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights." I Annals of Cong. 439 (1789). Concluding, the Court specifically referred to the use of the evidence there seized as "unconstitutional." At p. 638.
Less than 30 years after Boyd, this Court, in Weeks v. United States, 232 U.S. 383 (1914), stated that
"the Fourth Amendment . . . put the courts of the United States and Federal officials, in the exercise of their power and authority, under limitations and restraints [and] . . . forever secure[d] the people, their persons, houses, papers and effects against all unreasonable searches and seizures under the guise of law . . . and the duty of giving to it force and effect is obligatory upon all entrusted under our Federal system with the enforcement of the laws." At pp. 391-392. [367 U.S. 643, 648]
Specifically dealing with the use of the evidence unconstitutionally seized, the Court concluded:
"If letters and private documents can thus be seized and held and used in evidence against a citizen accused of an offense, the protection of the Fourth Amendment declaring his right to be secure against such searches and seizures is of no value, and, so far as those thus placed are concerned, might as well be stricken from the Constitution. The efforts of the courts and their officials to bring the guilty to punishment, praiseworthy as they are, are not to be aided by the sacrifice of those great principles established by years of endeavor and suffering which have resulted in their embodiment in the fundamental law of the land." At p. 393.
Finally, the Court in that case clearly stated that use of the seized evidence involved "a denial of the constitutional rights of the accused." At p. 398. Thus, in the year 1914, in the Weeks case, this Court "for the first time" held that "in a federal prosecution the Fourth Amendment barred the use of evidence secured through an illegal search and seizure." Wolf v. Colorado, supra, at 28. This Court has ever since required of federal law officers a strict adherence to that command which this Court has held to be a clear, specific, and constitutionally required - even if judicially implied - deterrent safeguard without insistence upon which the Fourth Amendment would have been reduced to "a form of words." Holmes, J., Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, 251 U.S. 385, 392 (1920). It meant, quite simply, that "conviction by means of unlawful seizures and enforced confessions . . . should find no sanction in the judgments of the courts . . .," Weeks v. United States, supra, at 392, and that such evidence "shall not be used at all." Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, supra, at 392. [367 U.S. 643, 649]
There are in the cases of this Court some passing references to the Weeks rule as being one of evidence. But the plain and unequivocal language of Weeks - and its later paraphrase in Wolf - to the effect that the Weeks rule is of constitutional origin, remains entirely undisturbed. In Byars v. United States, 273 U.S. 28 (1927), a unanimous Court declared that "the doctrine [cannot] . . . be tolerated under our constitutional system, that evidences of crime discovered by a federal officer in making a search without lawful warrant may be used against the victim of the unlawful search where a timely challenge has been interposed." At pp. 29-30 (emphasis added). The Court, in Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928), in unmistakable language restated the Weeks rule:
"The striking outcome of the Weeks case and those which followed it was the sweeping declaration that the Fourth Amendment, although not referring to or limiting the use of evidence in courts, really forbade its introduction if obtained by government officers through a violation of the Amendment." At p. 462.
In McNabb v. United States, 318 U.S. 332 (1943), we note this statement:
"[A] conviction in the federal courts, the foundation of which is evidence obtained in disregard of liberties deemed fundamental by the Constitution, cannot stand. Boyd v. United States . . . Weeks v. United States . . . And this Court has, on Constitutional grounds, set aside convictions, both in the federal and state courts, which were based upon confessions `secured by protracted and repeated questioning of ignorant and untutored persons, in whose minds the power of officers was greatly magnified' [367 U.S. 643, 650] . . . or `who have been unlawfully held incommunicado without advice of friends or counsel' . . . ." At pp. 339-340.
Significantly in McNabb, the Court did then pass on to formulate a rule of evidence, saying, "[i]n the view we take of the case, however, it becomes unnecessary to reach the Constitutional issue [for] . . . [t]he principles governing the admissibility of evidence in federal criminal trials have not been restricted . . . to those derived solely from the Constitution." At pp. 340-341.
II.
In 1949, 35 years after Weeks was announced, this Court, in Wolf v. Colorado, supra, again for the first time, 6 discussed the effect of the Fourth Amendment upon the States through the operation of the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. It said:
"[W]e have no hesitation in saying that were a State affirmatively to sanction such police incursion into privacy it would run counter to the guaranty of the Fourteenth Amendment." At p. 28.
Nevertheless, after declaring that the "security of one's privacy against arbitrary intrusion by the police" is "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty' and as such enforceable against the States through the Due Process Clause," cf. Palko v. Connecticut, 302 U.S. 319 (1937), and announcing that it "stoutly adhere[d]" to the Weeks decision, the Court decided that the Weeks exclusionary rule would not then be imposed upon the States as "an essential ingredient of the right." 338 U.S., at 27 -29. The Court's reasons for not considering essential to the [367 U.S. 643, 651] right to privacy, as a curb imposed upon the States by the Due Process Clause, that which decades before had been posited as part and parcel of the Fourth Amendment's limitation upon federal encroachment of individual privacy, were bottomed on factual considerations.
While they are not basically relevant to a decision that the exclusionary rule is an essential ingredient of the Fourth Amendment as the right it embodies is vouchsafed against the States by the Due Process Clause, we will consider the current validity of the factual grounds upon which Wolf was based.
The Court in Wolf first stated that "[t]he contrariety of views of the States" on the adoption of the exclusionary rule of Weeks was "particularly impressive" (at p. 29); and, in this connection, that it could not "brush aside the experience of States which deem the incidence of such conduct by the police too slight to call for a deterrent remedy . . . by overriding the [States'] relevant rules of evidence." At pp. 31-32. While in 1949, prior to the Wolf case, almost two-thirds of the States were opposed to the use of the exclusionary rule, now, despite the Wolf case, more than half of those since passing upon it, by their own legislative or judicial decision, have wholly or partly adopted or adhered to the Weeks rule. See Elkins v. United States, 364 U.S. 206 , Appendix, pp. 224-232 (1960). Significantly, among those now following the rule is California, which, according to its highest court, was "compelled to reach that conclusion because other remedies have completely failed to secure compliance with the constitutional provisions . . . ." People v. Cahan, 44 Cal. 2d 434, 445, 282 P.2d 905, 911 (1955). In connection with this California case, we note that the second basis elaborated in Wolf in support of its failure to enforce the exclusionary doctrine against the States was that "other means of protection" have been afforded "the [367 U.S. 643, 652] right to privacy." 7 338 U.S., at 30 . The experience of California that such other remedies have been worthless and futile is buttressed by the experience of other States. The obvious futility of relegating the Fourth Amendment to the protection of other remedies has, moreover, been [367 U.S. 643, 653] recognized by this Court since Wolf. See Irvine v. California, 347 U.S. 128, 137 (1954).
Likewise, time has set its face against what Wolf called the "weighty testimony" of People v. Defore, 242 N. Y. 13, 150 N. E. 585 (1926). There Justice (then Judge) Cardozo, rejecting adoption of the Weeks exclusionary rule in New York, had said that "[t]he Federal rule as it stands is either too strict or too lax." 242 N. Y., at 22, 150 N. E., at 588. However, the force of that reasoning has been largely vitiated by later decisions of this Court. These include the recent discarding of the "silver platter" doctrine which allowed federal judicial use of evidence seized in violation of the Constitution by state agents, Elkins v. United States, supra; the relaxation of the formerly strict requirements as to standing to challenge the use of evidence thus seized, so that now the procedure of exclusion, "ultimately referable to constitutional safeguards," is available to anyone even "legitimately on [the] premises" unlawfully searched, Jones v. United States, 362 U.S. 257, 266 -267 (1960); and, finally, the formulation of a method to prevent state use of evidence unconstitutionally seized by federal agents, Rea v. United States, 350 U.S. 214 (1956). Because there can be no fixed formula, we are admittedly met with "recurring questions of the reasonableness of searches," but less is not to be expected when dealing with a Constitution, and, at any rate, "[r]easonableness is in the first instance for the [trial court] . . . to determine." United States v. Rabinowitz, 339 U.S. 56, 63 (1950).
It, therefore, plainly appears that the factual considerations supporting the failure of the Wolf Court to include the Weeks exclusionary rule when it recognized the enforceability of the right to privacy against the States in 1949, while not basically relevant to the constitutional consideration, could not, in any analysis, now be deemed controlling. [367 U.S. 643, 654]
III.
Some five years after Wolf, in answer to a plea made here Term after Term that we overturn its doctrine on applicability of the Weeks exclusionary rule, this Court indicated that such should not be done until the States had "adequate opportunity to adopt or reject the [Weeks] rule." Irvine v. California, supra, at 134. There again it was said:
"Never until June of 1949 did this Court hold the basic search-and-seizure prohibition in any way applicable to the states under the Fourteenth Amendment." Ibid.
And only last Term, after again carefully re-examining the Wolf doctrine in Elkins v. United States, supra, the Court pointed out that "the controlling principles" as to search and seizure and the problem of admissibility "seemed clear" (at p. 212) until the announcement in Wolf "that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment does not itself require state courts to adopt the exclusionary rule" of the Weeks case. At p. 213. At the same time, the Court pointed out, "the underlying constitutional doctrine which Wolf established . . . that the Federal Constitution . . . prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures by state officers" had undermined the "foundation upon which the admissibility of state-seized evidence in a federal trial originally rested . . . ." Ibid. The Court concluded that it was therefore obliged to hold, although it chose the narrower ground on which to do so, that all evidence obtained by an unconstitutional search and seizure was inadmissible in a federal court regardless of its source. Today we once again examine Wolf's constitutional documentation of the right to privacy free from unreasonable state intrusion, and, after its dozen years on our books, are led by it to close the only [367 U.S. 643, 655] courtroom door remaining open to evidence secured by official lawlessness in flagrant abuse of that basic right, reserved to all persons as a specific guarantee against that very same unlawful conduct. We hold that all evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Constitution is, by that same authority, inadmissible in a state court.
IV.
Since the Fourth Amendment's right of privacy has been declared enforceable against the States through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth, it is enforceable against them by the same sanction of exclusion as is used against the Federal Government. Were it otherwise, then just as without the Weeks rule the assurance against unreasonable federal searches and seizures would be "a form of words," valueless and undeserving of mention in a perpetual charter of inestimable human liberties, so too, without that rule the freedom from state invasions of privacy would be so ephemeral and so neatly severed from its conceptual nexus with the freedom from all brutish means of coercing evidence as not to merit this Court's high regard as a freedom "implicit in the concept of ordered liberty." At the time that the Court held in Wolf that the Amendment was applicable to the States through the Due Process Clause, the cases of this Court, as we have seen, had steadfastly held that as to federal officers the Fourth Amendment included the exclusion of the evidence seized in violation of its provisions. Even Wolf "stoutly adhered" to that proposition. The right to privacy, when conceded operatively enforceable against the States, was not susceptible of destruction by avulsion of the sanction upon which its protection and enjoyment had always been deemed dependent under the Boyd, Weeks and Silverthorne cases. Therefore, in extending the substantive protections of due process to all constitutionally unreasonable searches - state or federal - it was [367 U.S. 643, 656] logically and constitutionally necessary that the exclusion doctrine - an essential part of the right to privacy - be also insisted upon as an essential ingredient of the right newly recognized by the Wolf case. In short, the admission of the new constitutional right by Wolf could not consistently tolerate denial of its most important constitutional privilege, namely, the exclusion of the evidence which an accused had been forced to give by reason of the unlawful seizure. To hold otherwise is to grant the right but in reality to withhold its privilege and enjoyment. Only last year the Court itself recognized that the purpose of the exclusionary rule "is to deter - to compel respect for the constitutional guaranty in the only effectively available way - by removing the incentive to disregard it." Elkins v. United States, supra, at 217.
Indeed, we are aware of no restraint, similar to that rejected today, conditioning the enforcement of any other basic constitutional right. The right to privacy, no less important than any other right carefully and particularly reserved to the people, would stand in marked contrast to all other rights declared as "basic to a free society." Wolf v. Colorado, supra, at
THAT IT IS IN THE LIGHT OF ABOVE THAT THE PROTECTION OF THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF THE PERSON AND PEOPLE TO BE RESPECTED, PROTECTED AND TO BE DEFENDED IN A FREE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY.
THAT IT IS THE MOTTO AND PRINCIPLE OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION THAT "DEFENDING LIBERTY WHILE PURSUING JUSTICE"
IT IS THEREFORE MY RESPECTFUL SUBMISSION AND CANDID OPINION THAT SINCE ANAS EXPOSE FAILED, NEGLECTED AND REFUSED TO RESPECT AND OBEY ARTICLE 18 (2) OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION, THE EVIDENCE ACT AND THE UNITED NATIONS CHARTER OF FREEDOM AND HUMAN RIGHTS BY OBTAINING A VALID COURT ORDER BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION OR THE EXPOSE WAS ALSO NOT DONE IN AN OPEN AND TRANSPARENT MANNER IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW THAT THE ANAS VIDEO EXPOSE IS DEEM ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND CANNOT BE ACCEPTED AS A LAWFUL EVIDENTIAL MATERIAL.
THAT IN VIEW ALSO OF THE LEGAL PRINCIPLE 'WHETHER OR NOT ANY LEGALITY CAN RESULT OUT OF ILLEGAL ACTS OF BOTH PARTIES OR PERSONS AS IN THE CASE OF ANAS AMEREYAW ANAS EXPOSE?"
THAT IT HAS BECOME VERY NECESSARY AND ALSO VERY DICEY IF THE ASSERTION AND CLAIM MADE BY "SIR JOHN" FORMER GENERAL SECRETARY OF NPP THAT "THEY HAVE SOME INVINCIBLE FORCES WORKING FOR THEM AND THEIR RESULT WOULD SOON BE KNOWN?"
THAT ASSUMING AND GRANTING THAT WE ARE LIVING IN THE PHYSICAL AND VISIBLE WORLD AND THERE WAS A CLAIM THAT THERE ARE "SOME INVISIBLE FORCES ALSO WORKING UNKNOWN TO THOSE OF US LIVING REASONABLE IN THE VISIBLE , OPEN AND TRANSPARENT WORLD AND THE LEGAL ISSUE THEREFORE "WHO IS ANAS AND WHAT IS/WAS HIS "MODUS OPERANDI" OF THE ANAS EXPOSE?
IT IS THEREFORE MY HUMBLE AND CANDID SUBMISSION THAT THE JUDICIAL COUNCIL COMMITTEE TO SERIOUSLY WEIGH, ANALYZE AND EVALUATE ALL THESE RELATED LEGAL ISSUES/MATTERS VERY CAREFULLY TO DISMISS THE CASE MADE AGAINST THE JUDGES/MAGISTRATES AND THE JUDICIAL STAFF IMPLICATED BY ANAS SECRET VIDEO TO HELP PROTECT PRIVACY OF HOME, PROPERTY, COMMUNICATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE AS PROVIDED UNDER ARTICLE 18(2) OF GHANA 1992 CONSTITUTION AND UNITED NATIONS CHARTER ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND FREEDOM.
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED.
GOD BLESS GHANA , AMERICA. UNITED KINGDOM AND UNITED NATIONS.
Listen to him
All these corrupt people playing scare tactics.
WHY CAN'T WE INVEST IN OUR OWN ECONOMY?
Because of corruption we teamed up with the foreigner to invest while we take a commission.
The foreigner pay to play that's why he th ...
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We have created the toxic atmospheres for the foreigner to PAY TO PLAY.
OSAFO MAAFO and the gang are all in to this PAY TO PLAY that's why the so-called investor have to be worry.
We need a clean Ghana with NO corrupt fore ...
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All of a sudden, all the big pastors who preach from the "powerful" pulpit against corruption all became mummu?
Where's the METROPOLITAN ARCHBISHOP of Accra?, where's Otabil?Where's Duncan William?
Is His Holiness Right Rev ...
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Ask again oo, Elinam
The incident will boost investor confidence if the judges involved are dealt according to law. We have the opportunity to make an example of them and the whole world will know we are serious. We should not allow the mafia sys ...
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Vigour,in the first place ,what is Mr.Sarfo Marfo saying? These judges must rather be set as an example to investors to see us as serious nation and have confidence in the judiciary.
We Play the trick they fear us and they w ...
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LOOK WHO IS TALKING.
A GHANAIAN POLITICIAN?
Alas BNI et al only investigate and arrest those directed by the Gov't of the day. shame about our country, one wonders what type of people we are.
It is now evident that BNI and co. work for the interest of the government. If the gov. is not interested in a case, BNI is non-existence. Remember that the no.1 corrupt officials are from the government. Since this case surf ...
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GHANAIANS SHOULD TAKE THEIR CIVIC DUTIES SERIOUSLY. WE HAVE TO TAKE ELECTED LEADERS TO TASK EVERY DAY. NO ONE PERSON CAN DO THAT JOB FOR US. EVERY INDIVIDUAL SHOULD MAKE IT HER/HIS DUTY TO BE VIGILANT ON EACH SINGLE MOVE OF O ...
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Arrest Kweku Baako And Anas Now
This ugly idiot must be caged
AKUFFO ADDICT, ATAA AYI KUFFUOR , AND ASAFO MARFO ,BELONGS TO KUMASI ZOO. WHAT A COLLECTION OF UNSIGHTLY BEINGS.
Do the citizens have to suffer at the hands of judges because we want investors? Who told Omafo Safo - Chuck that some of these so-called investors are not pleased with corruption? Do you we have institutionalised corruption ...
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He is a consummate prick!
Don't mind him,the world already knew how corrupt our system is which includes the judiciary,every sector in that country is corrupt with the NPP being the brain behind most the corruption in Ghana.
These people even don't w ...
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Did you understand what you read? He is insinuating that the scandal could affect investor confidence, which is very likely. I did not read anywhere in the article that Osafo-Maafo wants citizens to suffer at the hands of the ...
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You are just a fool, and you can't read to understand. What is your problem about what this man said? Your chew and pour education has catch up with you, since you can't understand what this article is all about. MORON.
Our true character should be known to the world, Mr.Macmillan/Barbering Saloon.
NPP IS A CURSE IMPOSED TO W GHANIANS.
Really, do you remember d planes loosing its wheels in Accra, wat of d fire nd rain, ebola, melcon, 3mil jet flight, woyome, dumsormuststop, mills, last in education, worst currency ever, gcb press car, et all... Do you remem ...
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The NPP people are always thinking of evil things to befall Ghana. This Osafo Marfo's mind and intentions are full of evil things. WHY CAN'T OSAFO MARFO RATHER SAY THAT, NOW THAT THE ROT IN THE JUDICIARY HAS BEEN EXPOSED, INV ...
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Shut up you tribalistic arse hole, you don't have to be BNI to expose corruption, we are all equally responsible in the fight against corruption, and this kind of exposure will rather boost the confidence of investors, so go ...
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Why the contradictions? Osaka, you claim the "scandal" is harmful, yet you want the BNI and other tax-payer-funded institutions to do the "investigations".
Meaning, you FEAR the media?
Go back and read what he said. You are an illiterate.
Kruman, why don't you point it out so I can understand, since I am illiterate!
If he is "illiterate" how can he "go back and read"?
Moron Kofi, here is a definition:
il·lit·er·ate
i(l)?lid?r?t/
adjective
1.
unable to read or write.
Booklong Kofi doesn't know "comprehension" from "illiterate"!
Faya and majority here misunderstood
what Osafo Maafo was trying to specify!
Investor confidence will be affected negatively by negative tribal sentiments usually expressed by Osafo Margo.
EOCO and BNI are all corrupt institutions and can not effectively do any good job like Anas did. They would even collect bribes from judges if they are made to investigate such cases. Forget about EOCO and BNI.
Katawodi3so
Please your opinion in this matter shows that you don't have a clue how and what investors think and what is important to them.
The General opinion of investors is already the Ghana is corrupt.
So what has changed in this o ...
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Leaders of corruptions will always try to shield their posse. oh[poor Ghana] when?
Mr Sarfo said it right . We are damaging our own self. Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt ?
Quote: "Which of the top officials in Ghana is not corrupt?"
So isn't that WHY they must be EXPOSED so that they watch their back and become fearful? that somebody is WATCHING??
low intelligent comment;how do we damage ourself;we rather combat corruption thast pave way for strong and vibrant economy..if we allow corruption cripple our country like what Nigeria experiencing,what a heck investors will ...
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Thank God for JDM for allowing all these corruptions to come out. Kuffuor thought corruption is part of human nature so why worry about, but Mahama thinks otherwise and making room for it to be exposed. God bless him
The exposure could also be interpreted to mean we have the ability to unearth crime and we are bold to deal with it irrespective of who are involved. Investors know very well that there is no country under the sun without cor ...
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You did the greater damage already by your ethnocentric comments. What else, Mr. Tribalism and Nepotism! Shut your ugly mouth!!!!!
Your former boss Kufuor appointed all these Judges
Some arguments on this platform are unnecessary.Instead of one to suggest something educative,they apportion blames on who appointed them.Appoinment as a judge to a high court or supreme court are done on merrit and track rec ...
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Which investors is this man talking about? Have u forgotten that John Mahama's gross display of incompetence has already driven away all investors? No serious businessman will invest in Ghana
BNI and EOCO like many state agencies are waste of taxpayers money.We need another coup d'etat for complete house cleaning and total transformation of the country.All those who are against military intervention should show t ...
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We need a complete house cleaning. Whiteman's Democracy has failed in Ghana.Where are the soldiers? There is no option at this time.We are tired.
Safo mafoh foolish man.this will encourage investers to ghana if the judges are punish
Punish the judges
Nana the finest ever
Nana Addo the finest politician to ever walk on ghana after Nkrumah.so much love for u nana always for the poor and so much love for his country.
In what sense..how does judicial scandal affect investors confidence?..
Has MAAFO OSAFO asMr. Kofi Wayo calls him, forgotten about his pronouncement on Tribalism and Nepotism.This could also affect investor confidence for that matter internal conflicts?. He should close his mouth and rather conce ...
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The BNI and EOCO are there only to protect the NDC government. They only protect government functionaries.
Hon Oaf Marfi, please come trays on your ethnocentric remarks and ideas & stop spelling doom for this country. I pray that you are forgiven for your thinking that Ghana belongs to only akyems. May you reap what you sow. We ew ...
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The BNI is sleeping on the wheel. They harass petty criminals while white criminals go untouched.
what is mr Sarfo marfo talking about, is it not his government that appointed most of this corrupt judges into the chambers . lets go back to records to find out how many of this corrupt judges where appointed by the eastword ...
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Shenanigans some of you folks have embarked on, to run duly elected party executives out of your own party, for fighting against corruption?
Remember your cabal is not yet in control of our national purse; please
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I thought while you were at it you would mention Martin Amidu's treatment he suffered at the hands of your NDC for trying to fight Corruption in the party. The presidency would be next then we'll see what you would say.
Is true, EOCO n BNI shld be up n doing. They shld b Anas nxt Target
Osafo Marfo do you listen to yourself. Can't you see preaching tribal politics is far dangerous to scare investors.? Shame on you. Oluman bor nie.
Listen to him.osafo marfo shud not women at all.look at pot calin kettle black.who is more corrupt than osafo marfo shud
We don't have to believe any agency, department, institutions and government in Ghana. We are all corrupt. Even with the pastors in our system. It is sad that nothing is moving well in Ghana. We are too selfish and wicked.
Osafo Maafo saying what? U should know that even your tribalistic comments is enough to dent investor confidence.
See who is talking, you have no credibility I thought you were a matured man, not knowing tribal bigot ,who thinks Ghana should be ruled by certain people,
99.99% of institutions in Ghana are all corrupt. When is the next coup?
Yes,you generate investor confidence when you go to SIGN a CONTRACT IN GERMAN LANGUAGE without understanding WHAT you were signing !!!!!
INVESTOR CONFIDENCE INDEED !!!!!!!
Holier -than-thou-fool !
ask urself mr president to be!
Ppl so soon forget when JJ told u ghanafo3 that that 70 percent of the current gov't are corrupt the whole world watch so if maafo say something abt why are you talking
I do not agree with Hon Osafo Maafo. It's time Ghanaians discard these kinds of "African ideas"!.
I think the Judiciary Scandal would rather Boost Invester Confidence if the
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You should also have been investigated for sending Ghana to a hairdressing saloon for a loan
AFTER ALL , THE SO-CALLED INVESTORS WILL COME; FOOL AND CHEAT THEIR EMPLOYEES BECAUSE THEY (INVESTORS ) KNOW THAT THEY CAN BRIBE THE JUDGES AND GO AWAY FREELY.
MAY GOD HELP OUR MOTHER GHANA!!
To those thinking that foreign investor's don't know our judicial system is corrupt, wake up for you are in the dark.... That is why the Lebanese brag openly, that they have colonized Afric ...
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BNI ARE CORRUPT THAN ANY ORGANIZATION IN GHANA
Did their job diligently sir, you would also be sitting in the slammer. Some things are better not said
I'm 200% in agreement with Mr. Marfo. These state owned investigative bodies must be ashamed of themselves. I wish some are fired because they're equally thieves and nation wreckers. Their duties are no more required! Shame! ...
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BIN and the security agencies are being influenced by the NDC gov't. They will chase people and harass others for nothingwwhile the real criminals walk freely on our streets.They're bogus wasting tax-payers money for nothing!
They saw the seed of corruption in the judiciary by twisting the judiciary to jail Tsatsu and packed the supreme court with their cronies to deliver the final blow to Tsatsu. So we got to know that though these things do happ ...
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OPEN LETTER TO CHIEF JUSTICE, DEAR MADAM , THE 11 JUDDERS WHO HAVE PROVED TO THE WORLD THAT THEIR NOT CORRUPT, LOVE GHANA, GHANAIAN S, LOVE THEIR COUNTRY SHOULD BE ELEVATED, PROMOTED AND MADE HEROES FOR THE WHOLE WORLD T ...
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BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, BARRISTER-AT LAW, QCL, PLC, DPA, CPA, BA (HONS) {GHANA}, MASTER OF LAWS (LLM) {NEW YORK, USA} PENDING, MEMBER, INTERNATIONAL (WORLD/GLOBAL) BAR ASSOCIATION, MEMBER, COMMONWEALTH LAWYERS ASSOCIATION, ASSO ...
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