{"id":228982,"date":"2016-07-08T06:00:02","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=228982"},"modified":"2016-07-08T06:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T06:00:02","slug":"threat-on-judges-montie-fm-apology-hypocritical-ayikoi-otoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/threat-on-judges-montie-fm-apology-hypocritical-ayikoi-otoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Threat on Judges: Montie FM apology hypocritical – Ayikoi Otoo"},"content":{"rendered":"
A former Attorney general and legal practitioner, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has said Montie FM\u2019s apology following threats made by two of its panelists against Supreme Court judges smacked of hypocrisy.<\/p>\n
According to the former Attorney General, Montie FM had a reputation for incendiary comments, and that prior to its two panelists threatening the lives of judges on air, they have been known for slandering and bashing the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP).<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”uFPnK5PhP1pPXJCATwbwFa1DpeXJvkcV”]The two panelists, Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, during a current affairs programme on the station, threatened to \u201cfinish\u201d the Supreme Court judges if they made any judgment against the Electoral Commission in the court case challenging the validity of the voters\u2019 register.<\/p>\n
Management of the Accra-based station subsequently apologised and banned<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the two panelists until further notice, a day after the Supreme cited the owners of the station, the host, and the two panelists\u00a0for contempt<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs far as I am concerned, this is nothing more than a hypocritical apology\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n But Mr. Otoo viewed those moves by Montie FM’s management as simply hypocritical, a fact he said all who listen to the station can attest to.<\/p>\n Speaking on Eyewitness News<\/strong>, he said, \u201cI see their apology as very hypocritical and I am saying so because all those who have listened to Montie, which is the Akan version of radio Gold, will tell you that what they do is to bash the NPP and its leader.\u201d<\/p>\n He also highlighted the cynicism in the fact, the station only apologized for the death threats made by its panelists only after it had gotten into trouble with the law.<\/p>\n Mr. Otoo further questioned why the host of the current affairs programme in question, one Mugabe, was also not sanctioned.<\/p>\n \u201cIf it is now that they have gotten themselves into trouble that they are telling us that they now want to apologise unreservedly, they have banned the people from coming on the program, but what about the host of the program, Mugabe, who is well known for some of these articulations.\u201d<\/p>\n