Arrest Anas – Demands Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey

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OGUAF 8 years ago

SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL EFFA DATTEY THAT HE IS A COMPLETE DISGRACE TO HIMSELF AND HIS PROFESSION!! WHEN JUDGES STEAL, THEY ARE HUMANS? WHEN GOLD RUST, WHAT THEN WILL IRON DO?? NO WONDER EFFAH DATTEY DID NOT WIN EVEN THE NPP FLAG ...
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SOMEBODY SHOULD TELL EFFA DATTEY THAT HE IS A COMPLETE DISGRACE TO HIMSELF AND HIS PROFESSION!! WHEN JUDGES STEAL, THEY ARE HUMANS? WHEN GOLD RUST, WHAT THEN WILL IRON DO?? NO WONDER EFFAH DATTEY DID NOT WIN EVEN THE NPP FLAGBEARER POSITION. HE IS A THIEF, A SWINDLER AND A ROGUE. I AM PRAYING FOR A COUP, THAT COUP THAT WILL KILL ALL THESE JUDGES, INCLUDING EFFAH DATTEY. POOH!!
UNMISGUIDED AFRICAN CHILD 8 years ago

If Nkrabea means destiny,then your destiny is morally SINFUL.By your fruit we shall know them.

WE ARE SO FAR BEHIND AS A RACE,AND A SO-CALLED LAWYER LIKE YOU IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY
CORRUPTION WITH SUCH EXCUSES AS "LEAD US N ...
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If Nkrabea means destiny,then your destiny is morally SINFUL.By your fruit we shall know them.

WE ARE SO FAR BEHIND AS A RACE,AND A SO-CALLED LAWYER LIKE YOU IS TRYING TO JUSTIFY
CORRUPTION WITH SUCH EXCUSES AS "LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION".

Nkrabea,What is your understanding of the RULE OF LAW? ...Lead You Not into temptation?
Ghanaians still travel to fetch the family water on their heads in 2015...and that doesn't fiss you?

Even if God sends us a Moses tomorrow
and met Lawyer Nkrabea first,you will be TEMPTED TO TAKE A BRIBE IN EXCHANGE FOR PROSPERTY.

Perhapss,Anas is the only one in Ghana-Africa today fighting corruption
so Nkrabea
"fa wanimguases3m no firi Anas so"

You are a hyena and a shameless cockroach.For people like you and the way you think:
"y3so ne yawiaa na 3bo y3n no"
Joseph Abugri 8 years ago

Only criminals and corrupt people will hate Anas.

Only criminals and corrupt people will hate Anas.
Kukudabi 8 years ago

Nkrabea you got everything wrong! Anas has contributed his part in solving the problem. What is your contribution if you do not endorse corruption?

Nkrabea you got everything wrong! Anas has contributed his part in solving the problem. What is your contribution if you do not endorse corruption?
Simply George. 8 years ago

This Effah Dartw3 man seems to have mental disorder which needs to be cured with horse whip.Imagine having such mad men in our country.What will be the future of Ghana ? I am very sure that he himself is having some skeleto ...
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This Effah Dartw3 man seems to have mental disorder which needs to be cured with horse whip.Imagine having such mad men in our country.What will be the future of Ghana ? I am very sure that he himself is having some skeletons hidden in his cupboard.The BNI must put this lunatic under surveillance.
Sam 8 years ago

This is typical Effah-Dartey trying to bamboozle readers with his spurious arguments. The fact is, corrupt judges have a system in place to feed their practice. Anas, has exposed the system by being inventive. The result or t ...
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This is typical Effah-Dartey trying to bamboozle readers with his spurious arguments. The fact is, corrupt judges have a system in place to feed their practice. Anas, has exposed the system by being inventive. The result or the outcome of the investigation is sooooo damning that you cannot but applaud Anas for his work.
Sakyimo 8 years ago

Your credibility is frying in the biblical ABOMINATION of DESOLATION!

Your credibility is frying in the biblical ABOMINATION of DESOLATION!
Hebert, Sweden 8 years ago

Mr. Nkrabea, With all your practices as a Lawyer since 1987, you have learn nothing. You supposed to have written many books by now on Legal issues, than playing into politics, where you think you can fool Ghanaians , and mak ...
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Mr. Nkrabea, With all your practices as a Lawyer since 1987, you have learn nothing. You supposed to have written many books by now on Legal issues, than playing into politics, where you think you can fool Ghanaians , and make quick wealth (your writing shows).
Let me remind you that, the real meaning of a crime is every thing mention in Law as a crime is a Crime, no matter how, when, why. So your funny examples of naked woman seeing a Pastor does not means the Pastor should feel love, or sex with her is no excuse. The Salaries of Peoples do not excite them to take Bribes from individuals. If you are having grownup-educated children they will be ashamed of your statements, and if they were to be in Europe USA or anywhere apart from Ghana, they will tell you Papa, you are stupid in Block words, because you support support corruption as a Lawyer. I am so deeply sorry for the stand you take against Anas, and I am sure you have been cheating your clients and bribing some of the Judges too. SHAME.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 8 years ago

I am not sure if this article is truly by Effah-Dartey. If that is the case, then it's very disappointing. As Attorney for one or some of the judges who took bribes and deliberately gave false judgement in their court, I was ...
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I am not sure if this article is truly by Effah-Dartey. If that is the case, then it's very disappointing. As Attorney for one or some of the judges who took bribes and deliberately gave false judgement in their court, I was hoping he will advance legal argument as to why Anas should be arrested or why his client/s were victims of entrapment. Sadly, the article lacked coherent in ideas or argument. I wondered whether was preaching a sermon until the last few praragraphs.

May I ask you, on what legal basis do you conclude that what Anas did is criminal, unlawful or illegal and therefore should be arrested? Are you aware that the Anas modus operandi is used across the globe by investigative journalists, including here in the UK? Are you aware that judges should not see a party to a case before him or her alone (ex-parte)? Are also aware that the excuse by the judges that they were entrapped is in law an illegal defence under "ex turpi causa non oritur actio"(one cannot benefit from one's own wrongdoing)?

You have not given any compelling reason why Anas should be arrested. Anas has done nothing wrong, unlawful, illegal or criminal to warrant arrest. Rather, it's your client/s that should have been arrested, granted bail and prosecuted by now if they were in a country where the laws, rules and regulations are enforced and complied with without fear or favour and irrespective of one's position. Your clients are free because in Ghana there is one law for the poor and another for the rich, the elite and powerful. Had this happened in the UK or US, the judges would have been sacked, prosecuted and jailed.

I heard you talk about the double jeopardy rule on Newsfile last Saturday implying that the judges could not be prosecuted if they are sacked. It appears you do not understand the law on such matters. I suggest you Google Judge Mark Ciavarella Jnr and read how he was sacked, prosecuted and jailed 28 years for sentencing young people to more than the law requires then received kickbacks from a private youth prison in the US in 2013. It's similar to what the Ghanaian judges did.

We need more investigative journalists like Anas and if Ghana had more of them the fight against corruption would be effective. You are just making empty threats and no sense. Are you really a qualified lawyer in Ghana? I am shocked.
Jasmine 8 years ago

It is him, Effa-Dartey. He's been whining a lot of late and making no sense at all. What he doesn’t’ know is that, from now on we believe he is very corrupt and probably that he has his neck in some dark stuff, which is w ...
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It is him, Effa-Dartey. He's been whining a lot of late and making no sense at all. What he doesn’t’ know is that, from now on we believe he is very corrupt and probably that he has his neck in some dark stuff, which is why he is very uncomfortable with Anas’ investigation. Should someone investigate Effah right now, I am sure it would be found out money's is his motivation.

The last time, I have quoted an article in the latest Time Magazine at the moment, to justify the legality of Anas' investigation, and I recall that here:

"How an Anonymous Spy With A Video Camera Infiltrated Planned Parenthood And Reignited THE ABORTION DEBATE"

by Alex Altman.

Still in the magazine under the Chapeau “STEALTH FOOTAGE”, the writer writes, "Posing as a representative of a fetal-tissue-procurement company, David Daleiden wangled private meetings with Planned Parenthood officials. His secretly recorded videos spurred a new GOP push to defund the women's-health organization, one that could result in a government shutdown."

In the main article, the writer contends "He is an antiabortion activist, and for two and half years, he was an undercover agent in one of the most elaborate exploits in recent political history... He acquired fake IDs, launched an extensive website and proffered business cards adorned with the logo of a bubbling beaker. He slipped into exclusive conferences for abortion providers, hobnobbed with high-ranking officials and discussed medical procedures with doctors.'

So why is this different from what Anas did? And this happened in the USA and has actually created a polemic. But the fact is that, no one is even talking about the guy who infiltrated so many groups and unveiled stuff that's still being discussed and drew public investigation into Planned Parenthood.

There are times I believe our stupidity in Ghana knows no bound. I don't know how people expect Anas to tell the judges he was investigation them at the moment he does.

In any case, anyone in Ghana who would try any stupid thing against Anas will be facing the wrath from most of us. We support him 1000 percent. WE encourage Anas to continue to expose everyone.
Kwei Kuma 8 years ago

If effah dartey thinks Anas has committed any offence then he should quickly get to the nearest police station and report him to be arrested and stop wasting our time herer.

If effah dartey thinks Anas has committed any offence then he should quickly get to the nearest police station and report him to be arrested and stop wasting our time herer.
Dabo 8 years ago

And we had such a person as a legislator. God help us!!

Wait until an armed robber attacks yourself or a member of the family and the reality of the Anas revelations will hit you! I think you are living in cloud cuckoo lan ...
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And we had such a person as a legislator. God help us!!

Wait until an armed robber attacks yourself or a member of the family and the reality of the Anas revelations will hit you! I think you are living in cloud cuckoo land now.

Stupid man.
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago

The moral of the Anas expose continues to elude even the best in society. Guess what Effah-Dartey? If those Judges who threw Anas out understood the laws of Ghana to dispense and render judgment on those brought before them t ...
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The moral of the Anas expose continues to elude even the best in society. Guess what Effah-Dartey? If those Judges who threw Anas out understood the laws of Ghana to dispense and render judgment on those brought before them they would have filed legal complaints with the appropriate department to prosecute Anas; they chose not because they dared not shake the nest.

The moral of the Anas expose is not about the arrest and prosecution of those judges but an insight to the system for us all but more so for those in NPP who think that because the NPP used the courts to imprison Tsatsu Tsikata the world must be glad for our laws and system of prosecution. Far from it; Anas did us all a favor by exposing the corrupt practices of a judicial system that has outcomes predicated on power and money and not the dispensation of justice for all. Kufour and Nana Akufo-Addo did their misdeeds to see to it that Tsatus Tsikata was found guilty of mismanagement and yet the same administration could not bring and do same unto those who managed the NPP era Ghana@50 celebration. That is some of the lessons to be learned from the Anas project. A corrupt judicial system is not good for anyone and those who choose to think there was ever a dispensation of justice in our courts must think twice ;you have been fooled.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago

If this is how this Effah-Dartey guy thinks about how the Law should work, then he must be debarred immediately.

Since when did we make our fallibility an excuse to commit crime? The fact that we have weaknesses do not pr ...
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If this is how this Effah-Dartey guy thinks about how the Law should work, then he must be debarred immediately.

Since when did we make our fallibility an excuse to commit crime? The fact that we have weaknesses do not preclude us from being prosecuted for having given in to those weaknesses.

Did Effah-Dartey ever think about those poor, ordinary folks who get tempted by unguarded property that belongs to another and steal it only to be caught and sent to jail?

Does Effah-Dartey know why we even have Laws, the Courts and the Judiciary? If we were to accept this guy's twisted logic, we would not even have any need for the Police, or ever think of arresting most criminals.

This is because for most criminal cases, the culprit would always claim a certain temptation that lured him or her that he or she could not control himself or herself over.

If the Judges caught for taking bribes knew they had that kind of weakness to easily give in to crime when the temptation was right in their face, they should not have gotten into that profession. Being a Judge is the kind of profession that requires absolute resistance to all temptations to commit crime. Period! Anyone who does not have that moral fortitude does not belong in it.

Moreover, Effah-Dartey's weird analogy with celibate Catholic Priests is a most dangerous one that makes me fear he could himself be a high-risk potential rapist.

We encounter women in bikinis all the time. Do we have to jump on them to rape them or even attempt to woo them into bed just because of what they are clad in? For this Lawyer to excuse Priests who would be so morally disjointed that they would throw away their cassock and rosary and suspend taking Confessions in order to take a sexy-looking Lady who has come to seek confession to bed, is at the top of insanity.

What would Effah-Dartey say to the Pedophilic Catholic Pastors who might have been sensually aroused by good looking kids they encounter and force themselves on those kids? Are the kids to blame because they might be wearing cute little dresses or shorts that could have exposed some part of their bodies that the 'sick' Priests found uncontrollably alluring?

Our Societies are full of such alluring things. But we, as morally healthy adults, are required to use our best judgment to refrain from pouncing on those things to take possession of them without proper procedures.

We are supposed to hold our urges in check to stay out of trouble, no matter how we get into proximity and awareness of things that lure us. That is what an orderly society, and all sane adults are supposed to act.

The Laws were made to constrain those of us who would be foolish enough to allow their urges get the better of them to harm others in order to satiate those urges. The Prisons were built for those hopelessly weak adults, of whom Effah-Dartey has alluded to being one. Lucky him, he is yet to be caught red-handed.

If Effah-Dartey cannot appreciate that Laws exist to keep in check those who cannot use their brains well enough to control their fallibility, he should not be in the Law Profession at all. In fact, I wish he had expressed this infantile, crooked logic as his principle before his last membership in Parliament, folks would never have chosen him to be a Member of Parliament.

Now, folks, we know why Corruption has stayed with us for so long. MPs and Lawyers like Effah-Dartey would rather have us look the other way for the crime to ran amuck, so long as he culprits are not the ones to initiate it.

Meanwhile, the question of entrapment in this case has long been amply explained elsewhere. The very nature of the Profession of the Judges is the reason why they ought to have rejected any enticements from the Tiger Eye PI, because the Judges knew the Law best.

Effah-Dartey may just be a Lawyer in Ghana. He surely could never practice in the USA, for example. This is because the Law Enforcement Agencies in the USA, especially the Drug Enforcement Agency, could only infiltrate the criminal organizations with exactly the kind of approach Tiger Eye employed in netting the crooked Judges.

Effah-Dartey must be debarred for believing that women who dress 'provocatively' deserve to be jumped upon for sex by the men who see them. Does dressing in a certain way necessarily mean an invitation to engage in sex with the person so dressed?

What a 'Cocoyam Fufuo' mind does this Lawyer have?

God help us!!

Effah-Dartey is the one who deserves to be arrested for indicating how dangerous a potential rapist he is.

Long Live Ghana!!!
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago

Your arguments are pedestrian, if not totally infantile.

You state glibly:

"It is a different thing if an ace investigator gets a tip off that Judge A is doing a particular case and that there is a strong perception tha ...
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Your arguments are pedestrian, if not totally infantile.

You state glibly:

"It is a different thing if an ace investigator gets a tip off that Judge A is doing a particular case and that there is a strong perception that the judge wants to take bribe or that one of the parties want to influence the judge with bribe – then this our ace investigator will nose around and insert himself into the quadrangle of Judge, Court Clerk, lawyers and the party,
then sniff around holding the latest recording gadgets, and then presto!!!!!!! – catches them red handed in the act!!!!!!!!!!"

The above is a correct account of exactly what Anas did. Anas got tip-offs that those judges were doing particular cases and formed a strong perception that they will collect bribes. That is why presto! He went for his gadgets and got them.

That fact is not varied in any way by your senile statement:

"But not this queer type of investigator who THINKS that some particular Judge MAY take a bribe in a particular case, then pretends a role as a party and then marches to the Judge to sell a story and plant money and take pictures as TIGER EYE!!!!!!!!"

You are too clueless to know that the "MAY" you inserted in there does not transmute a fair investigatory tactic into an entrapment. Whether a person "may" take a bribe or "will" take a bribe, the person shows "potential" to be bribed and can be fair game to any tactic to implicate him. The least potential for wrong-doing is fatal to the defense of entrapment.

You write like somebody that has no clue about the law and invokes none to support your diatribe.

But I can tell you that Anas will not be arrested. No law makes such a thing possible. If you remember any iota of your criminal law, you will recall that Abas, as an investigator, is covered by his intent to expose the judges, which overrides the mens rea of a typical bribery. So your proposition that he be arrested is fairly moot.

Thus instead of exposing your ignorance here and on the radio, devote your precious time to think of better defenses for your clients and stop showing to everybody that you are just another bad lawyer who has not read anything on the law long after law school.

You don't even understand the concept of double jeopardy which only applies in criminal cases under some strict circumstances. What else do you know?

No!!!!!! I think this is immoral, I think it is highly unethical and is something that must be CONDEMED fully and wholly with all the vehemence we can command. It is a CRIME to attempt to influence a Judge with a bribe. Anas himself says that some judges drove him out
of their presence. Is that enough? Why not arrest him? Why not prosecute him for offering bribes to judges, with an aim to pervert the course of justice
Godd 8 years ago

Why say "clueless" (as opposed to you being in the all-knowing), why "ignorance" (as opposed to you knowing everything), why "senile" (as opposed to you who is a 25 yr old), why all this attempt at "putting down" your opponen ...
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Why say "clueless" (as opposed to you being in the all-knowing), why "ignorance" (as opposed to you knowing everything), why "senile" (as opposed to you who is a 25 yr old), why all this attempt at "putting down" your opponent when your argument is strong enough on its own without resort to all those denigrating words?

Do you use such words in your US courtroom to show that your opponent's arguments are wrong?
GORGORDUTOR 8 years ago

Mr Effah- Dartey is an obvious shill here. Did you skip the ethics class at Law school? What about procedure you knave? Are you aware that judges must not discuss cases outside the courtroom and their chambers with the provis ...
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Mr Effah- Dartey is an obvious shill here. Did you skip the ethics class at Law school? What about procedure you knave? Are you aware that judges must not discuss cases outside the courtroom and their chambers with the proviso that lawyers for both parties must always be present. Your clients are corrupt bribe receiving asshole who have been pervert ING justice for a long time! Any time a judge agrees to discuss a case outside the courthouse he is in violation of procedure and custom. When he goes on to bargain for a bribe and then pervert justice he must be prosecuted and jailed with hard labor. Don't these corrupt asshole sentence people to 10 years for stealing a goat or a 78 year old grandmother to 15 years for cultivating a few plants of God given cannabis.
Go way you dere with your shameless defense of corruption among judges, you and your ilk are one of the reasons why corruption runs rampant everywhere in Ghana.
TARANTULA 8 years ago

I really cannot figure out why you guys are wasting your valuable time on this pimp of a lawyer who is obstinately defying common-sense only just to make a few 'bob'.

Effah- Dartey, nobody ever made it to the source of th ...
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I really cannot figure out why you guys are wasting your valuable time on this pimp of a lawyer who is obstinately defying common-sense only just to make a few 'bob'.

Effah- Dartey, nobody ever made it to the source of the river by swimming against the tide. A crook is still a crook whether he shows up in a stupid ridiculous blond wig sitting on a fat African nose, or he turns up looking emaciated and hungry and and in a threadbare pair of 'broni wawu' shorts.

Yes, times are hard in Ghana but for a lawyer/politician of Effah- Dartey's standing to resort to prostituting the law, in order to ostensibly keep body and soul together, shows how bad things really are in this country.

Effah-Dartey, I say to your law practice, RIP!
OKUAPEM NI 8 years ago

Wow are you really educated? You invoke God, you invoke sexism, and you invoke stupidity! Why don't we set free all criminals since some humans are bound to be criminals!

Wow are you really educated? You invoke God, you invoke sexism, and you invoke stupidity! Why don't we set free all criminals since some humans are bound to be criminals!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

That's a good one, from all corners!

Greetings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's a good one, from all corners!

Greetings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Godd 8 years ago

Effah-Dartey was on to a good argument but he spoiled it by calling for the arrest of Anas and making excuses for the indicted justices. Else he was on to a good argument.

No, there is no need to arrest Anas. The national ...
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Effah-Dartey was on to a good argument but he spoiled it by calling for the arrest of Anas and making excuses for the indicted justices. Else he was on to a good argument.

No, there is no need to arrest Anas. The national mood does not even support that. There is also no need to try to excuse the CRIME of the fallen justices. The national mood doesn't support that either and the national mood is right, methinks too.

But there is the need to question the methods of Anas on legal and moral grounds. Even if Anas brought us all results that we like and are very happy about, there are many Ghanaians who are VERY UNCOMFORTABLE with his methods.

If Effah-Dartey had limited himself to this aspect of the case, he would have had my full support.

There are many commentators here on ghanaweb who are unable to separate the issue of the established guilt of the justices from the grave discomfort with the methods by which they were caught. They conflate the two and think if the one is desirable, then the other is desirable too. But there are no moral philosophical grounds to hold such a stand!
Jasmine 8 years ago

Read my post above. Have you ever heard about two fold effect in ethics before?

In any case, the first and final intentions of Anas Anas were good. Now, I charge you to look for the first and final intention of his actions ...
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Read my post above. Have you ever heard about two fold effect in ethics before?

In any case, the first and final intentions of Anas Anas were good. Now, I charge you to look for the first and final intention of his actions, that is the aim and objectives of his investigation.

On the other hand, some of the judges demurred taking bribes offered by Anas and even threaten him.
In the end, he employed the same methods others would employ to bribe those who by profession, should be defending the constitution of the Republic of Ghana. They failed woefully and out to have been shot.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago

As a lawyer, why waste electronic ink with so many words, Lawyer Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey?

Why don't you simply say, "Arrest Anas, Demand I?

Our Lord this!

Our Christ that!

So, why all that preachy, preachy, now?

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As a lawyer, why waste electronic ink with so many words, Lawyer Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey?

Why don't you simply say, "Arrest Anas, Demand I?

Our Lord this!

Our Christ that!

So, why all that preachy, preachy, now?

YOU SAY: "...I read the article...by Elizabeth Ohene...she was making a very valid point – that some policemen are corrupt, some politicians are corrupt, some teachers are corrupt – so if some judges are corrupt – is it surprising?..."

WE SAY: Lawyer-man, did it ever occur to you that the actual scale and its perception depends on where you sit, even with your novel "FORTY PER CENT statute and SIXTY per cent DISCRETIONARY"!

But not to worry, according to you, our lawyer, we can catch the bad judges by Jesus Christ, by that cockamamie story of the Ethiopian night.

Yes "No!!!!!!"

You are dabbling by conflation. You've got the legal and professional confused with the "immoral", spiritual, and "ethical".

What nonsense, for a lawyer to talk about the ethics of a journalist in Ghana, in this matter of corrupt judges, today.

And so, when it was the judges who took the monies and other phantom gifts thinking they were bribes, that they would have to give consideration to the "bribe-giver" in their courtroom contrary to the law, it is Anas who must be arrested, according to you, Mr. Nkrabeah Effah-Dartey.

What a life!

What nonsense!
Nima Boy 8 years ago

Nkrabeah, you are making a mockery of yourself and I feel sorry for your clients for wasting their money to hire a BAFFOON like you to represent them in court. You need to go back and sit the bar exams again my friend. Did y ...
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Nkrabeah, you are making a mockery of yourself and I feel sorry for your clients for wasting their money to hire a BAFFOON like you to represent them in court. You need to go back and sit the bar exams again my friend. Did you go through your article before posting it?

Didn’t that same bible tell’s you to RESIST TEMPTATION when faced with one? James 4:17 James 4:7

What happen to The judges who drove Anas away ? Are they friends to temptation ( evil ) that, he told them not to take the bribe?

The 33 judges made a choice to follow the path of evil by accepting the bribe knowing very well the consequence for their action. What is your beef with Anas?

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