{"id":150318,"date":"2015-09-10T06:30:17","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T06:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=150318"},"modified":"2015-09-10T06:41:59","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T06:41:59","slug":"we-still-have-judges-with-integrity-emile-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=150318","title":{"rendered":"We still have judges with integrity – Emile Short"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retired Judge and former head of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative (CHRAJ), Emile Short, says regardless of the revelations made in Anas Aremeyaw Anas\u2019 latest expos\u00e9<\/a> <\/strong><\/span>on corruption in the judiciary, it would be inappropriate for the public to totally condemn all judges.<\/p>\n

22\u00a0judges implicated in the judicial corruption scandal have been suspended by the Judicial Council while the \u00a0Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Woode has ordered investigations into the matter.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”X0eAgsq7O1m3QbixwP3udDockof7rjiV”]A process has also commenced to determine whether there is a prima facie case can made against the twelve High Court judges also captured in the expos\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Over 100 court officials believed to have engaged in the alleged acts are also going to be pursued and disciplined after the investigative processes, according to the Chief Justice.<\/p>\n

But speaking on Eyewitness News on Citi FM<\/strong> Wednesday, the retired Judge said Ghanaians ought to be circumspect and not tag all judges as corrupt, adding that many judges are dispensing their duties with integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cNormally I am very reluctant to comment unless I have the concrete evidence of what is being alleged. I haven\u2019t heard the audio and I haven\u2019t seen the video. Assuming that the report that I read in the Daily Graphic is correct, then of course the revelations are quite disturbing. But I think that we should allow due process to take its course. I think that we should also remember that even if the allegations are true, the persons involved are entitled to be heard because one is innocent until proven guilty and so that\u2019s the approach that we should be taking\u201d Mr. Short said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also think that we must be careful about making general condemnation of the judiciary because there are many judges both men and women who are performing their duties with integrity. And the judiciary is such an important institution so we should make sure that we don\u2019t undermine the confidence of the judiciary; but that will also depend on how this matter is handled by the judicial council and the Chief Justice\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n

Though Anas\u2019 two-year investigative piece titled \u2018Ghana in the Eyes of God \u2013 Epic of Injustice,\u2019 exposed judges taking bribes ostensibly to influence their judgments, it also came out that some judges rejected such inducements.<\/p>\n

The shocking video is set to premiere at the Accra International Conference Centre on September 22, although reports had suggested there were attempts by some influential individuals to block its public showing.
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\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retired Judge and former head of the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative (CHRAJ), Emile Short, says regardless of the revelations made in Anas Aremeyaw Anas\u2019 latest expos\u00e9 on corruption in the judiciary, it would be inappropriate for the public to totally condemn all judges. 22\u00a0judges implicated in the judicial corruption scandal have been suspended […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":52439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-150318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}