{"id":235682,"date":"2016-07-31T15:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235682"},"modified":"2016-07-31T15:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:41:38","slug":"montie-3-oye-lithur-joins-calls-for-presidential-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=235682","title":{"rendered":"Montie 3: Oye Lithur joins calls for presidential pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has joined the growing list of prominent persons calling for a presidential pardon for the jailed Montie three.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_235685\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-235685\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-235685 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/5e667fea-14a1-41fe-8b5d-9c0d2e7c005a.jpg\" alt=\"5e667fea-14a1-41fe-8b5d-9c0d2e7c005a\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-235685\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Member of Parliament for Ledzokuku constituency, Sena Okitey Duah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, some prominent figures within the NDC who<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/29\/akua-donkor-numo-blafo-others-sign-petition-to-free-montie-3\/\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> signed the petition book<\/strong><\/span><\/a> included the Minster of Education; Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly; Numo Blafo, and the founder of the Ghana Freedom Party, Akua Donkor.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235418\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/6a3f944b-0f4a-497a-9f14-fc49007af69d.jpg\" alt=\"6a3f944b-0f4a-497a-9f14-fc49007af69d\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was after key figures , including the Deputy Education Minister in charge of tertiary; Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa and the Head of the Presidential Delivery Unit, Valerie Sawyerr signed the book on Thursday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_234999\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-234999\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234999\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/008fa672-f6d1-4165-92f0-53e5d9c335e1.jpg\" alt=\"Deputy Chief of Staff, Valerie Sawyerr \" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-234999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deputy Chief of Staff, Valerie Sawyerr<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A group calling itself the Research and Advocacy Platform (RAP), opened the petition book in a bid to persuade President Mahama to activate his prerogative of mercy powers under Article 72 of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>But some stakeholders argue that the decision to grant presidential pardon will amount to undermining the powers of the judiciary.<\/p>\n<p>Sydney Casley Hayford, an anti corruption crusader on Citi FM&#8217;s News Analysis Programme, The Big Issue, suggested that the three should be made to serve the full sentence to serve as a deterrent to others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur has joined the growing list of prominent persons calling for a presidential pardon for the jailed Montie three. On Friday, some prominent figures within the NDC who signed the petition book included the Minster of Education; Professor Jane Naana Opoku Agyeman the Public Relations [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":235686,"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-235682","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\/235682","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=235682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}