[contextly_sidebar id=”pdHGOvmIn3ctGcST1tlIfqFvKHGsNO4f”]Mr. Oti, who is the Deputy Minister designate for Local Government, can be heard<\/a><\/strong><\/span> verbally attacking the Supreme Court on the same Montie FM \u2018Pampaso\u2019 programme, that saw the host of the show and two panelists\u00a0imprisoned for contempt<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n Mr. Oti is on record accusing the Chief Justice of “conniving” with the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) in an attempt to reverse the election results in 2008 and in 2012 among other allegations.<\/p>\n \u201cI am surprised the Chief Justice isn\u2019t suing him by now,\u201d the IMANI President said in response to this development. \u201cThe unsavoury comments, the calumny, the vain glorification of treachery that was meted out to the Chief Justice \u2013 I am shocked.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGo to their houses and maim them. Look for them anywhere they are. They are cockroaches fish them out.\u2019 Mr. Cudjoe noted as some genocidal propaganda that marked the airwaves of Radio-Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLMC) in Rwanda adding, \u201cthese were worse comments than what happened in Rwanda.\u201d<\/p>\n ‘Free speech gone to madness’<\/strong><\/p>\n Mr. Cudjoe also described as nonsensical the attempts to defend the Montie three with claims their right to free speech was being attacked.<\/p>\n The three; Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, together with the host of the \u2018Pampaso\u2019 political show, Maase Salifu, a.k.a Mugabe, threatened to eliminate justices of the Supreme Court over their handling of the lawsuit on the credibility of the country\u2019s voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n Their incarceration has been met with calls for their release with a petition<\/a><\/strong><\/span> being started to get President Mahama to pardon the three. Other have called their four month sentence an attack on free speech<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n But Mr. Cudjoe retorted that, \u201cto actually threaten the life of a fellow human being is one explanation of free speech gone to madness. I don\u2019t think anybody who talks about free speech in this instance is actually normal.\u201d<\/p>\n He further indicated that convicted persons comments on the show ostensibly “fell short of saying go and kill them [the Justices], go and rape them.\u201d<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Following the emergence of audio evidence of the MP for Nkwanta North, John Bless Oti, verbally attacking the Chief Justice, the President of IMANI, Frankiln Cudjoe has likened the MP\u2019s comments to the infamous ‘Hate Radio’ which ushered in the Rwandan genocide. \u201cListening that man [Oti Bless] on radio was worse than what was said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235547,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235545","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=235545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dept.](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Okudzeto-1-1024x576.jpg\")
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