[contextly_sidebar id=”inEDt612w60jZ5Jdpcl3AM0WXevcRkYq”]One of the lawyers of the trio, George Loh, confirmed this on Eyewitness News\u00a0<\/strong>on Thursday.<\/p>\n “My understanding is that they are at the Nsawam prison” he said, when quizzed by the host of the show, Richard Dela Sky, on the whereabouts of\u00a0the convicts.<\/p>\n The trio, were also ordered to pay an amount of 10, 000 cedis each or risk serving an extra month in jail.<\/p>\n Several persons, including the Foreign Affairs Minister, Hanna Tetteh<\/strong><\/a><\/span> as well as her party the National Democratic Congress<\/strong><\/span><\/a> (NDC), have described\u00a0that the sentence handed out to the three as\u00a0harsh.<\/p>\n The lawyers for the trio say they\u00a0intend to\u00a0petition President Mahama<\/span>\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>to pardon them,\u00a0prompting the opening of a\u00a0petition book today [Thursday].<\/p>\n The book, opened by a group calling itself the\u00a0Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP), has garnered several signatures<\/strong><\/span><\/a> including those of high-profile government officials including the Minister of Education in charge of Tertiary, Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa, the Minister of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts, Elizabeth Ofosu-Agyare and an official at the presidency, Valerie Sawyerr.<\/p>\n Sentence ‘appropriate’<\/strong><\/p>\n Others have applauded the judges for the sentence given to the three persons.<\/p>\n A private legal practitioner, John Ndebugri, said that the 4-month jail terms given to the them\u00a0were appropriate\u00a0for the offences they were convicted\u00a0of.<\/p>\n “I think that the sentences are appropriate…A message has to be sent very clearly to media practitioners, social commentators and lawyers like myself who don’t\u00a0want to understand the meaning of the judicial process so that red lines are drawn and once you cross them, you come within the firing line and you’ll be fired,” Ndebugri said on the Citi Breakfast Show.<\/strong><\/p>\n Montie 3 should have been jailed 6-months<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, a Former President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Sam Okudjeto, has opined that the trio should have been handed a minimum of six months prison sentence.<\/p>\n He argued that the four-month prison sentence is not enough to serve as a deterrent to others.<\/p>\n \u201cIf I were there, I would have given them more than that because I am so worried about what I call irresponsibility that has almost crept into political arena whereby people use the television and radio as a platform for vulgar abuse, threats.That is not what the media is meant for and I think that a lot of characters that are appearing on television should not be allowed. The station itself should have been punished heavier for them to put down rules, the rules which says that when you come here no abuse, no insult.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI would have preferred to have given them at least six months and then ban them for a year or two to be of good behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawyer Sam Okudjeto also said it was immaterial that the three had apologized, saying the apology could not have undone the harm their utterances would have caused.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0two panelists, and the host of the\u00a0\u2018Pampaso\u2019 show on Accra-based Montie FM, who were\u00a0convicted \u00a0of contempt and jailed \u00a0by the Supreme Court on Wednesday, have been taken to the country’s major prison facility at Nsawam. 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