One of the lawyers for some of the implicated judges in the recent judicial corruption scandal, is accusing the Judicial Council of bending the law to please investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
According to Mr Ndebugri, the law entreats Anas, who is always in a hood, to be unveiled when he appears before the committee set up by the Judicial Council to investigate the bribery allegations leveled against the judges.
[contextly_sidebar id=”A5KIH2aLvHUHhgSLkh51oxntz9YZkL3k”]He said several pleas to get the committee sitting on the matter to make Anas remove his guise has been thwarted.
“You say that you have approached a judge, when you approached the judge you were not wearing a hood and then you now come and then you are wearing hood. How would the judge know that you are the one he had the meeting with. You are bending the rules just to please one person who claims that he is the most patriotic person in Ghana. I disagree,” the lawyer fumed on Eyewitness News.
Lawyer Ndebugri noted that though he is representing some of the accused judges, he refused to appear before the committee because he feels his clients are not being treated fairly.
“That is why I refused to go to the hearing. I gave my clients an option that if we go there and he [Anas] does not remove the hood I will not deal with him because the laws don’t allow that and I don’t know why you would bend the law just because of one person. That is serious. It is unthinkable,” he added.
Ndebugri argued that he is only defending the constitution, adding “I am not saying that judges are not corrupt, but the way he [Anas] is going about it is wrong. I have seen some of the videos and I’m convinced that it is wrong and then you come there and you won’t unveil your face too.”
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmononline.com/Ghana