Atuguba's Error

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  • Pumpuni 12 years ago

    You are a communications genius.

  • OYOKOBA 12 years ago

    Undeniably, Adams has penned down a very good article, basically to stress that the principle of separation of powers should be adhered to and respected.

    Easier said than done in practice as compared to theory. And I am pla ...
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  • Bibini 12 years ago

    Adams, don't just write for writing sake. Atuguba did not say he or judges or the judiciary will go out there and bring politicians into the court and deal with them.
    What can be deduced from his words is that, when politic ...
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  • owusu 12 years ago

    I think you are writing for writing sake.There is a politician who has faulted and is brought before him to be dealt with,good deal with him,but what are all these reckless comments about politicians.yes he can advise polit ...
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  • IDRIS PACAS alias Pink sheet 12 years ago

    The police is to maintain law and order, but the police service is an arm of the executive (government where the politicians are). So, if the politicians are wronging the state, but do not instruct the police to act, can they ...
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  • william 12 years ago

    A good analysis by John but because he misses the right context he fails to realise that the statement by the respected judge is far from being an error! The Judiciary is an independent arm of government, with the executive a ...
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  • pink sheet president 12 years ago

    John,
    Even,sir john, with 32 years of legal practise was reduced to nothing.If you wan't to know whether he has made any mistake, come out boldly and face the consequence.

  • krikri 12 years ago

    No doubt the NPP has been a violent party since the days of Kwame Nkrumah. Akufo Addo started it all by saying that if he did not win the 2012 elections AT ALL COST THEN ALL DIE BE DIE. This was immediately taken up by Kenedy ...
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  • Nsawan 12 years ago

    Turning a blind eye to the truth is what has left you in this morally corrupt situation.

  • Yaw. 12 years ago

    Oyakoba, there is also "Checks and Balances" that goes with Separation of Power. So Adams has only been one sided in his article.

  • DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 12 years ago

    Hmmm, that's a fair comment.

  • YVONNE 12 years ago

    greedy npp fools

  • C.Y. ANDY-K 12 years ago

    John, you got it all wrong about how the principle of separation of powers works in practice. If you read the Pol. Science, then you didn't grasp it before your graduation. I nearly stopped reading your piece but I struggled ...
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  • Efie nnyĂ© 12 years ago

    Mind u de SC is not in any way attempting to usurp and play d role of de police but serving notice to people of its intent to clamp on down lawfully anyone "brougth" to it for any breaches of de law. Know that de SC did not c ...
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  • Nemesis 12 years ago

    ALL THIS WOULD NOT HAVE HAPPENED IF NPP HADN'T DRAGGED GHANA TO A STANDSTILL WITH THEIR BOGUS PETITION!!! NOW YOU ARE CRYING AND WONDERING WHY THERE IS CONFUSION....EVIL NPP:IT'S THEIR WAY OR THE HIGHWAY!!!!

  • AFI-TEYE 12 years ago

    YOU'RE INDEED AN 'AKRUASI NI'DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE STATEMENT ATUGUBA MADE ATALL AND ALSO WHAT ARTICLE IS TRYING TO EDUCATE YOU ABOUT???? DO YOU THINK ATUGUBA IS OF ANY GOOD,NO DON'T BE IN A DREAM WORLD.

  • Kofi Adjaho Mahama 12 years ago

    Atubuga is simply power drunk.

  • WARD GDX - WE THE PEOPLE 12 years ago

    His pronouncements and unguided utterances clearly show that the man lacks the requite jurisprudence to be occupying the position he holds as SC judge.

    His actions have been illegal and extra judicial and like those poli ...
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  • Kojo 12 years ago

    1st, what do you supposed the third arm of government is? .2nd what do you think they the courts should be doing, when one half of the 3rd arm is behaving badly. There's a need for order and does it matter where it comes from ...
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  • George 12 years ago

    Justice Atubaga was only expressing his anger over how state institutions have allowed politicians to over ride them and that the Judiciary will lot sit aloof to be over ridden.

  • Okoe 12 years ago

    I am not a lawyer but my common sense tells me that if someone can say I sentence you to be locked up and that order is executed, then that is where power comes from and that what a judge does and it is obeyed. My friend, tha ...
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  • PAUL AFFUL 12 years ago

    “Politicians have disabled law enforcement agencies because of the power they have arrogated to themselves and it is up to the judiciary to clamp down on political bigotry. If we don’t, we will be letting the state down†...
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  • BOY KOFI 12 years ago

    Atubuga should have jailed sir john to stop this nonsense.The real danger in sir john's case has nothing to with court contempt.Let me tell you why we are in Supreme Court today,it's because of sir john who used his own power ...
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  • EVERY ONE 12 years ago

    WHAT ATUKUBA SAID IS PERFECT GHANANAIS RUNS FASTER THAN ONE CAN IMAGING WE HAVE TO KNOW THE LIMIT OF EVERYTHING THE WAY WE PRACTICE OUR FREE DOM OF SPEECH IS TTTOOOOOOOO CHILDISH

  • Qwame 12 years ago

    He who does not know and does not know that he does not know is a damn fool. I hope there is something in this writing that will attract the attention of the Justices to summon this tofloko to appear before them.

  • Martin/PA 12 years ago

    Yes, the justices of the Supreme Court and the other judges of the lower court can and should cut the politicians down to their sizes. But our Courts can only do this if they are clean themselves.

  • Kwaku Azar 12 years ago

    The justices need better training on constitutionalism

  • c.k 12 years ago

    Infact you are a big fool. So you like the tension then in the country eh. Come out and talk.don't hide behind-the-scenes and behave like the be-all and end- all person you want to be.shameless idiot.

  • MAYOR WALEWALE 12 years ago

    I beg to differ from what you think is the right thing you have done. In the first place why did you choose to go to the Supreme Court? I believe you had the confidence in them. Isn't it? But now that you have realise things ...
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  • SUSU BIRIBI 12 years ago

    Atubuga should remember that he cannot prosecute and be a judge in his own case; he should not play "god" because of powers given him. His maiden statement and demeaner when the case began showed he had preconceived mind abou ...
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  • BOY KOFI 12 years ago

    If you cannot proof that what is written on the face of the pink sheets actually happened then they are bogus facts in law.The law says facts must be proven beyond doubt to have legal effect,this is what we call justice.Thank ...
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  • Dan 12 years ago

    Please get education from lawyer Ayikoi Ottoo. In contempt cases, you are guilty as soon as you are sighted and it through with evidence. The purpose of inviting you to court is for you to come and explain why you think you s ...
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  • Nii Okai 12 years ago

    My comment comes on the ff statements said to have been made by Atuguba and I quote;- ''Politicians have diabled law enforcement agencies because of the power they have arrogated to themselves and it is up to the judiciary to ...
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  • BENGUN 12 years ago

    Atubuga is just saying that politicians will not be allowed to destroyed the Judiciary like they have done to other state institutions.Of course,the judiciary cannot stop politicians from destroying state institutions but cer ...
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  • KUKRUDU 12 years ago

    YOU SURELY NEED SOME SERIOUS EDUCATING.
    YOU WANT TO SEE WHERE THIS IS IN OUR CONSTITUTION??? ARE YOU SERIOUS OR ARE YOU REALLY DAFT??
    'I am willing to be educated. If there is a part of the constitution that gives the Court ...
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  • EDENSU 12 years ago

    I agree with the writer. The power to arrest is not vested in the Judiciary. Reading newspapers and listening to radio commentries by Judges just to issue warrant of arrest is never head off in the history of democracy. Co ...
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  • BOY KOFI 12 years ago

    Where did you see the judges arresting people?The writer's main objective is to discredit the SC and prepare the minds of poor NPP supporters that there is no justice in the Supreme Court so that they can reject the verdict.T ...
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  • BOY KOFI 12 years ago

    If you don't need peace we also don't need you in Ghana,go and burn the sea somewhere with lucifer.Please stop the evil thinking,have you forgotten that npp always says Nana Addo went to SC because he wanted peace in the coun ...
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  • B-wise 12 years ago

    IS ADAM A LAWYER?PLS I WANT SOMEONE TO HELP ME TO KNOW IF HE IS OR NOT.I WAS VERY SAD AFTER READING HIS ARTICLE AND I SEE IT TO BE BOGUS AND LACKS MERIT.IT REALLY MAKES ME FEELS THAT INDEED ADAM NEED TO SCHOOLED.IDOIT

  • Dr. Appocco 12 years ago

    Well said. And for some "educated" Ghanaians to egg the SC on is equally disturbing.

  • Taurus 12 years ago

    you,not believing that,the judge can do that,or have the right to do that,have nothing to change.You are not the judge.

  • BIOH SAMUEL 12 years ago

    ATUGUBA IS RIGHT BUT...

  • Klogo 12 years ago

    I could not agree more.

  • PUBLIC 12 years ago

    THE JUDICIARY SHOULD KNOW THEIR LIMITATIONS, AS PER THE CONSTUTION

  • Yaw. 12 years ago

    Kwame, please let us do a balance academic analysis. If you only know of Separation of Powers, it will interest you to know that it has a twin brother called "Checks and Balances".
    I have provided it here for easy reference: ...
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  • Adu- Gyamfi :USA 12 years ago

    what about the politicians error? They think they are untouchables. Somewhere along the line they have to be stopped before they set the country ablaze like Egypt. Please allow the judiciary to sanitize the political environm ...
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  • Dan 12 years ago

    People are not reacting as you would expect(paragraph 4) because Ghanaians are sincere that politicians are not allowing the law to take its course. People are not arrested and prosecuted because of their political affiliatio ...
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  • Abanglo 12 years ago

    its alright with JUSTICE ATUGUBA

  • Nas 12 years ago

    Its a wonderful piece bro, that's an intelligent analysis. Atuguba is just overreacting and it is about time Ghanaians pointed it out to him. He cannot use contempt as a basis to gag politicians. I even doubt if he is a democ ...
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  • SKY IS 12 years ago

    THE SENARIO IS CAN A JUDGE CALL A KNOWN CRIMINAL TO COURT TRY HIM AND FINE HIM WITHOUT GOING THROUGH DUE PROCESS, THROUGH POLICE, PCS AND CHARGE SHEETS ETC,ETC, GHANA WILL BE SWEET FOR JUDGES. FOR THE SAKE OF PEACE, THINGS AR ...
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  • Don Scylla 12 years ago

    What did the police do when Sir John single-handedly 'hijacked' Dr Bawumia's accident car if truly the police are the sole custodian of the duty of maintaining law and order in the country? I side with Justice Atuguba in all ...
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  • R.A . STYLEZ 12 years ago

    i think my man u should go back and study what u claim to be separation of powers very well.its better to be illiterate than to be half literate

  • Henry A 12 years ago

    How do politicians fight back? one thing you don't realize is that Ghana's parliament is a toothless, I say that because they do not draw up their own laws but debate and pass laws based on the Executive dictates. If politici ...
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  • chimchong Z 12 years ago

    this person's pronoucements show how he/she is ignorant of the subject he/she seem to be dealing with - law inforement. when you talk of law inforcement who are the bigwigs? the police or the the judiciary?

  • Ghanabiya 12 years ago

    If the writer is observing matters in the country, he will notice that Atuguba made his statement in a particular circumstances - that is in reprimanding politicians for comments they made on matters that were before the cour ...
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  • JK 12 years ago

    This is just another NPP contempt attempt by Adams

  • Kwame Aidoo 12 years ago

    I believe the govt needs to strengthen our educational system, because many of us are lacking knowledge of many simple constitutional issues.Some constitutional issues need be taught in our secondary school, including but not ...
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  • Wiseman-D 12 years ago

    I am sorry, you seem to have lost it all. i am sorry to tell you that you have misunderstood the statements the gentleman made. You should understand that, the only institution Under which the politician is obliged to kowtow ...
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  • Kofi 12 years ago

    Good piece because I see in Atuguba that his emotions show up too much when he gets people before him whom he claims they are in contempt. No wonder Mr Ayikoi Ottoo diplomatically asked him to calm down lest he suffers from ...
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  • Kwobia,Toronto 12 years ago

    Adams has a valid point.I also agree with Baaku Jr on Joyonline that Justice Atugba should have controlled his emotions on the occasion.

  • Suchel 12 years ago

    This is one of a few sensible articles on Ghanaweb these days.

  • abio 12 years ago

    FACT IS WHEN THE POLICE MAKES ARRESTS IT IS THE JUDICIARY WHICH WILL USE THE LAWS OF THE LAND TO ADJUDICATE AND RIGHTLY DELIVER JUSTICE APPROPRIATELY.SO IF JUSTICE CAN INFLUENCE THE JUDICIARY TO BE UP AND DOING WITH THIER CO ...
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  • otumfo osei tutu 12 years ago

    whoever this writer is, is an educated ilitrate, who does not understand simple english and basic statements of merit. Please go back to school to freshen up. Thanks

  • SOLOMON 12 years ago

    THANK YOU . GOOD JOB.

  • SOLOMON 12 years ago

    GOOD JOB. THANK YOU.

  • AMPONSA KAKABO LONDON 12 years ago

    There is know doubt about of the suffering of Judges Disease of Justice Atuguba.
    According to Solomon LJ, no criticism of however vigorous can amount to contempt of court provided it keeps within the limits of reasonable c ...
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  • Obibini Kwame, Santa Maria, Accra. 12 years ago

    Very sensible and educative piece. Take it or leave it.

  • Opanin 12 years ago

    Is a possible tyranny of the judiciary preferable to tyranny of the military? Food for thought.

  • Umar 12 years ago

    It is rather the writer's duplication of errors.

  • Kofi 12 years ago

    The fact that Atuguba mentioned politicians does not mean that it is all about the legislature. This has little to do with this body. Moreover everybody is a politician and not only members of parliarment or whatever. Let us ...
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  • JOHN MAHAMA 12 years ago

    ATUBUGA DID THE ONE MAN SHOW. HE WAS ABLE TO CONTROL THE FOUR OF HIS FRIENDS TO KEEP MAHAMA IN POWER SO THAT HIS SON CAN BRING MONEY HOME. HOW ABOUT THE GEEDA MESS AND WOYOME? LET ATUBUGA DEAL WITH THEM. ATUBUGA DID THE TRIBA ...
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  • MASHOOD - WA 12 years ago

    i think you need to go a grammar school before brainwashed people like joins you in this all die be die matra