The Supreme Court has handed a four-months prison sentence to the two panelists, and the host of the’Pampamso’ show, Salifu Maase, alias Mugabe, who threatened to kill judges of the Supreme Court during a radio discussion.
The Court earlier issued a warrant for the owners of the station, host of the station’s ‘Pampaso’ programme, and the panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of a case on the credibility of the voters’ register, to appear before them to answer for contempt charges.
At its second hearing of the suit last week, the accused persons were found guilty of contempt charges brought against them by the court.
Alistair Nelson blames ‘strange disease’ for outburst
One of the accused panelists, Alistair Nelson , at that hearing, blamed his comments in which he and Godwin Ako Gunn, threatened to kill the judges to a disease called “kpokpogbligbli.”
According to him, “kpokpogbligbli is an unknown disease that takes over a person’s body and controls what he says and does.
Nelson made the confession when he appeared before the Supreme Court to explain why he and others should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalizing the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”
On his part, the host of the show, Maase Salifu, popularly known as Mugabe, apologized for his comments, also adding that his producer fell ill and there was no one to control him in the studio.
Mugabe also stated that he regrets his comments and pleaded with the judges to forgive him as he has been a journalist of good repute for 15 years.
By: Dan Kwasi Prince// www.dailyviewgh.com
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