The stoppage of the showing of the film ‘Ghana in the Eyes of God' points to the fact that there is still more work to be done. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that neither the customs service nor vehicle licensing div ... read full comment
The stoppage of the showing of the film ‘Ghana in the Eyes of God' points to the fact that there is still more work to be done. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that neither the customs service nor vehicle licensing division is performing any better. The 'concert party' attitude to expositions of bribery corruption mus give way to real meaningful legal battling of these cankers and a national conscience that disowns the same as inevitable components of the national fabric. It is only then, that the quest embarked upon by such patriots as Anas will be considered to have chalked appreciable success. Until then, let's all accept to say "NO" to bribery and corruption at every front and in all sectors.
Godd 8 years ago
No matter which way u look at it, Anas has done well to expose the corrupt judges. But sone of us want to know more about the particularities of Anas' methods. So we're waiting for the continuation of this piece. We still wan ... read full comment
No matter which way u look at it, Anas has done well to expose the corrupt judges. But sone of us want to know more about the particularities of Anas' methods. So we're waiting for the continuation of this piece. We still want to know that Anas didn't go overboard in his efforts to flush out the bad nuts.
From this piece, we know these bad nuts are in the minority. Then why is the situation being created that the Ghanaian judiciary is completely cloaked in corruption? Anas is showing us far more corrupt judges than conscientious ones. This is an incorrect reflection of the Ghanaian judiciary. Most of them are not like Justice Dery. But we're being told that they are!
I'll wait for the other promised parts of this report before deciding how biased Anas was in his methods.
I heard rumours that Anas is prone to exaggerating his findings. But I wait for more evidence before I believe this.
G. K. Berko 8 years ago
Kudos! Anas, that dirty cleansing had to be done. But it entailed lots of risks and you and your team took up the challenge. Thus far, your job has been exquisite. At least, it has exposed the very top of the rot from which w ... read full comment
Kudos! Anas, that dirty cleansing had to be done. But it entailed lots of risks and you and your team took up the challenge. Thus far, your job has been exquisite. At least, it has exposed the very top of the rot from which we could track how deep down it has gone in the Society.
This should only be part of a long fight to uproot the rot. So, keep on working hard. You have our full support. Don't let anything stop you. Not even the Legislature or Executive. They may all have constipated t*rds stuck in their rotten an*s, looking for some dark public place to drop them, instead of simply going to the Johns.
Sorry, about my lingo, folks. But I am boiling with rage as to how some Lawyers like that cretin, Effah-Dartey, have been intimidating you and your group.
Long Live Tiger PI!
Long Live Ghana!!!
Kwaku Mensah 8 years ago
As a supervisor, the Chief Justice has the duty to review certain cases where even a lay person can suspect miscariage of justice - Woyome's case and armed robery cases. She is part of the problem. Let the President prove tob ... read full comment
As a supervisor, the Chief Justice has the duty to review certain cases where even a lay person can suspect miscariage of justice - Woyome's case and armed robery cases. She is part of the problem. Let the President prove tobe an efficient supervisor.
Okponglo Guy 8 years ago
Send Anas to CID and BNI
Send Anas to CID and BNI
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
This is an appropriate title: The Lawless Judges of Ghana. We may add: In Lawless Ghana.
I am glad to read that they have thought of and done such research on plugging the loopholes and re-building a trustworthy judicial ... read full comment
This is an appropriate title: The Lawless Judges of Ghana. We may add: In Lawless Ghana.
I am glad to read that they have thought of and done such research on plugging the loopholes and re-building a trustworthy judicial system across board, not only punishing the judges caught in the act. A sample size of 55 and over half of them found culpable makes the problem endemic and definitely makes the whole judicial apparatus systemically rotten, just like other aspects of the Ghanaian system, public and private.
Ad hoc solutions such as just trying those caught (there are many equally bad and even worse not caught like Justice "You-Don't-Even-Have-To-Spend-Your-Salary") and bringing in a foreign judge, as being perniciously advocated by some, to try the judges must be avoided. We need deep-rooted radical and far-reaching reforms. And, some of us who are trained in the relevant subjects are watching them closely.
Andy-K
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
C.Y. ANDY-K,
Yes, research!
That is what we need more of.
Not just talk and flash.
ITEM: It is about time someone/government published the pay and all the benefits each of the judges take from the people, month, aft ... read full comment
C.Y. ANDY-K,
Yes, research!
That is what we need more of.
Not just talk and flash.
ITEM: It is about time someone/government published the pay and all the benefits each of the judges take from the people, month, after month!
Peace!
Godd 8 years ago
"Based on the reports they collected from a number of Courts in north, central and south Ghana, they first pinpointed 55 judges whose verdicts showed an erratic pattern."
Even if one justice is crooked, that is bad enough. ... read full comment
"Based on the reports they collected from a number of Courts in north, central and south Ghana, they first pinpointed 55 judges whose verdicts showed an erratic pattern."
Even if one justice is crooked, that is bad enough.
But we should be a bit more critical of the things we read and not only look at one part. The above quote will show that the Anas team was already working with a biased sample. They targeted the justices they suspected were tainted. Therefore, they will get an overwhelmingly tainted judiciary. They did not use a random sample!
Moreover, we cannot conclude that those justices the team found as clean were actually clean. They may just have been smarter than Anas team and known when to bite a bait and when not to.
Then the article goes on to talk about the good justices and somehow managing to contradict itself in its conclusions about the judiciary.
You and Lungu call for research into the judicial system. That is necessary but it should be a proper scientific research - one which Anas can hardly be asked to lead...
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
In fact, I am awfully critical. My judgement is not only based on the things I have read since Anas' story broke out. It is based on a very long association with the judicial system which my own great grandfather and his uncl ... read full comment
In fact, I am awfully critical. My judgement is not only based on the things I have read since Anas' story broke out. It is based on a very long association with the judicial system which my own great grandfather and his uncle who was in the LegCo from 1916-42 helped to establish the judiciary in the Gold Coast. In my early teens, reading the big ledgers of court cases our grandpa kept in his very fine handwriting, we (myself and my immediate snr brother) used to giggle over the word "plaintiff", thinking it meant "plain thief", until we figured it out that it rather stood for the complainant! Fast forward to now: I have two siblings who are lawyers, one snr and one jnr to me. Snr retired as Chief State Prosecutor. The jnr, a brother, actually dissuaded me from adding law to my studies, as I was then planning go return home.Oh! The stories! And then, and then...ok, let's drop the background stuff but just to let you know that it is not only Anas who knew that something uncanny was happening in the judiciary. Even Akuffo-Addo knew, as he gleefully proclaimed that he never "went to see any judge in chambers"! One may ask what he did about that "seeing judges in chambers" when he was in govt and was even AG? Huh?!
What Anas and co. did is enough good sampling. Well, you must also know about the Null Hypothesis and accepting the Alternative Hypothesis not necessarily meaning arriving at the truth. There is nothing in statistics like the "truth", so your argument that those not found culpable might not be cleaned is redundant.
Of course, Anas is very capable of providing doing that research and providng ideas to reform the judiciary. He and his team in Tiger PI have proven more capable than all the security agencies (CID, BNI, Police), the CJ, the President, The Ghana Bar Assoc., our book allowance chasing intellectually bankrupt academics, yes, the whole of Ghana's population combined, in unearthing and exposing corruption in Ghana! And you dare demean him?!!! Ha! ba! Oga, this no be book long? So dump your random sampling! The shite has already hit the fan!
Andy-K
Godd 8 years ago
Andy, why will u take any seeming criticism of Anas as demeaning him? If your fellow researcher, when you were studying in Norge, was critical of your method, did you take that as his trying to demean you?
Yes, Anas was b ... read full comment
Andy, why will u take any seeming criticism of Anas as demeaning him? If your fellow researcher, when you were studying in Norge, was critical of your method, did you take that as his trying to demean you?
Yes, Anas was bold, brave and did what many of us cannot do. And he's done a great service to us all. No two ways about that. But it's not as if he's above criticism. As I argued in a comment to another article, Ghanaians are divided about his methods of catching the "thieves" but they are not divided about his catching them "at all". We are all agreed he did a great job. But it seems many of us don't want to look beyond that.
As for your "legal" background, anyone who has been reading your comments since long ago, knows that. Your interest in judicial matters without you being a lawyer is equivalent to Kofi Ata's on this forum. I was fully aware of that when I read your comment and made mine.
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Keep up the good work, Anas Anas Aremeyaw Anas and The Tiger Team!
READ: "...Posing as relatives and friends of criminals, the Tiger team had approached fifty-five judges with bribes. Thirty-four judges had accepted....The ... read full comment
Keep up the good work, Anas Anas Aremeyaw Anas and The Tiger Team!
READ: "...Posing as relatives and friends of criminals, the Tiger team had approached fifty-five judges with bribes. Thirty-four judges had accepted....The Tiger team’s investigation...was clearly a success. They had caught on video and audio not just judges, but also clerks, bailiffs, interpreters, ushers and even drivers working for Ghanaian courts. There was a veritable judicial mafia at work...They had all been very eager to, in exchange for bribes, forge papers, attach judges’ seals, introduce ‘cousins’ of criminals to judges and facilitate ‘private meetings’ with these judges to discuss the cases of detained -sometimes even sentenced- ‘cousins,’ ‘nephews,’ ‘brothers’ and ‘friends..."
WE SAY: Reads like an unorganized Mafia, alright.
THEN THIS: "...reason why the Tiger team now chose to target the highest institution of the land: the courts. If they, the very embodiment of justice and the rule of law, were also infected with corruption, was there any hope for Ghana? They wanted to test that. Based on the reports they collected from a number of Courts in north, central and south Ghana, they first pinpointed 55 judges whose verdicts showed an erratic pattern..."
WE SAY: A ha!
There was a theory at bottom of the "investigation.
So, "doo dat", we must say!
FINALLY: "...How can court performance be monitored effectively? They planned analytical articles about such possible measures to be published in weeks to come..."
WE SAY: Can't wait to read more!
We will even volunteer our help and assist in writing/editing, Ghana-Centered/Ghana-Proud. (Just contact us via www.GhanaHero.com).
IN CLOSING: The Impact!
This, from the other side, yesterday ---- the Judiciary skipping worship service as a result of The Tiger Team inquiries!
READ:
"...Added on October 5, 2015
Judges caught in Anas video dodge Church service
The 34 judges implicated in the recent Anas Aremeyaw Anas bribery scandal failed to show up at the special church service for the opening of the 58th Legal Year on Saturday.
Daily Guide’s checks at the Cathedral Church of the Most Holy Trinity on the High Street in Accra revealed that none of the judges was present at the public event ushering in the new legal year on the theme: “Deepening Public Trust & Confidence in Justice Delivery”, weeks after the exposé by the investigative journalist allegedly captured the judges taking bribes.
Top brass of the Judiciary including the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, Justice William Atuguba, Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, and the High Court judges for the first time were not in their usual robes.
The officiating clergy and lawyers who showed up for the event walked sombrely into the auditorium, which indicated that the judiciary was probably still smarting from the Anas “sting.”..."
WE SAY AGAIN: Ha, ha, ha!
Hopefully they were all repenting in the solemnity of the homes, away from the prying eyes of the people in so many churches who value their cars, homes and wealth more than the justice they give to everyone, equally, transparently.
Ha, ha, ha!
Stay at home and do better for Ghana - when you get back to the office. Or, from jail, for corruption!
Peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sakyimo 8 years ago
CNN, BBC, etc, are all hyping your dedicated diligence, so NO need for this crass self-promo
crap!
CNN, BBC, etc, are all hyping your dedicated diligence, so NO need for this crass self-promo
crap!
Prof Lungu 8 years ago
Crass Sakyimo, we must tell you!
Crass Sakyimo, we must tell you!
Kaboro 8 years ago
Moron Prof Lungu: you see shadows of yourself? you, WE whom!
Moron Prof Lungu: you see shadows of yourself? you, WE whom!
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
Honestly, it didn't appear like Anas himself wrote this article but a member of his team. There is a mix-up somewhere. If his names were deliberately used, then that was rather not quite disingenious.
Andy-K
Honestly, it didn't appear like Anas himself wrote this article but a member of his team. There is a mix-up somewhere. If his names were deliberately used, then that was rather not quite disingenious.
Good job
The stoppage of the showing of the film ‘Ghana in the Eyes of God' points to the fact that there is still more work to be done. Moreover, there is abundant evidence that neither the customs service nor vehicle licensing div ...
read full comment
No matter which way u look at it, Anas has done well to expose the corrupt judges. But sone of us want to know more about the particularities of Anas' methods. So we're waiting for the continuation of this piece. We still wan ...
read full comment
Kudos! Anas, that dirty cleansing had to be done. But it entailed lots of risks and you and your team took up the challenge. Thus far, your job has been exquisite. At least, it has exposed the very top of the rot from which w ...
read full comment
As a supervisor, the Chief Justice has the duty to review certain cases where even a lay person can suspect miscariage of justice - Woyome's case and armed robery cases. She is part of the problem. Let the President prove tob ...
read full comment
Send Anas to CID and BNI
This is an appropriate title: The Lawless Judges of Ghana. We may add: In Lawless Ghana.
I am glad to read that they have thought of and done such research on plugging the loopholes and re-building a trustworthy judicial ...
read full comment
C.Y. ANDY-K,
Yes, research!
That is what we need more of.
Not just talk and flash.
ITEM: It is about time someone/government published the pay and all the benefits each of the judges take from the people, month, aft ...
read full comment
"Based on the reports they collected from a number of Courts in north, central and south Ghana, they first pinpointed 55 judges whose verdicts showed an erratic pattern."
Even if one justice is crooked, that is bad enough. ...
read full comment
In fact, I am awfully critical. My judgement is not only based on the things I have read since Anas' story broke out. It is based on a very long association with the judicial system which my own great grandfather and his uncl ...
read full comment
Andy, why will u take any seeming criticism of Anas as demeaning him? If your fellow researcher, when you were studying in Norge, was critical of your method, did you take that as his trying to demean you?
Yes, Anas was b ...
read full comment
Keep up the good work, Anas Anas Aremeyaw Anas and The Tiger Team!
READ: "...Posing as relatives and friends of criminals, the Tiger team had approached fifty-five judges with bribes. Thirty-four judges had accepted....The ...
read full comment
CNN, BBC, etc, are all hyping your dedicated diligence, so NO need for this crass self-promo
crap!
Crass Sakyimo, we must tell you!
Moron Prof Lungu: you see shadows of yourself? you, WE whom!
Honestly, it didn't appear like Anas himself wrote this article but a member of his team. There is a mix-up somewhere. If his names were deliberately used, then that was rather not quite disingenious.
Andy-K