{"id":229494,"date":"2016-07-10T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229494"},"modified":"2016-07-10T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T11:02:03","slug":"montie-fm-bnis-harmless-description-unreasonable-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=229494","title":{"rendered":"Montie FM: BNI’s ‘harmless’ description unreasonable – Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely-Hayford has described the Bureau of National Investigation’s (BNI) statement that the two Montie FM panelists were harmless as unreasonable.<\/p>\n

A statement from the BNI said the two \u2013 Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn did not have the capability to carry out their threats on the\u00a0judges since they made the claims \u201cin a show of needless bravado.\u201d<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”3bWsoJAIZiHQdXzxPDQcxIGdB29LhLOT”]\u201cAt the interrogation, the two suspects admitted making those statements and acknowledged that their remarks were regrettable and unfortunate. Further checks by the BNI have however established that the suspects were incapable of carrying out pronouncements but did so in a show of needless bravado,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n

However, according to Sydney Casely-Hayford, it is impossible to determine anyone’s criminal tendencies\u00a0after a limited assessment of them, as the BNI did.<\/p>\n

“Nobody, particularly where you are not a lawyer or a judge or court, should suggest that they can\u2019t prosecute someone because they don\u2019t think they have the capacity to commit a particular crime on assessment,” Sydney Casely-Hayford said on Citi FM<\/strong>‘s news analysis programme, The Big Issu<\/strong><\/em>e<\/strong> on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“Where\u2019s the yardstick that tells me that someone is capable or incapable of murder? It is a totally nonsense argument to bring a situation up. You can\u2019t look at someone and say this person looks like someone who will steal. You can\u2019t look at anyone and say the person is capable or incapable of a crime.”<\/p>\n

Casely-Hayford stated that the issue of a person’s capacity to commit any crime is an irrelevant one as\u00a0anyone can argue they didn’t commit a particular crime \u00a0because they lack the capacity to do so.<\/p>\n

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Sydney Casely Hayford<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“If you extend this whole thing of capacity to do something, it means that if I am accused of burgling a house, I can make an argument that it can\u2019t be me because I don\u2019t have the capacity to burgle. That\u2019s not law. It\u2019s totally unreasonable,” he said.<\/p>\n

Montie FM panelists, host face Supreme Court on July 12<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Supreme Court has scheduled Tuesday July 12 2016, for the hearing of the contempt suit brought against owners of Accra-based Montie FM, the host of the station\u2019s \u2018Pampaso\u2019 programme, and two panelists, who allegedly threatened to kill judges over their handling of the Abu Ramadan suit on the credibility of the voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n

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By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely-Hayford has described the Bureau of National Investigation’s (BNI) statement that the two Montie FM panelists were harmless as unreasonable. A statement from the BNI said the two \u2013 Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn did not have the capability to carry out their threats on the\u00a0judges since they made the claims […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229494","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=229494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=229494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=229494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=229494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}