{"id":410725,"date":"2018-03-18T16:29:43","date_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=410725"},"modified":"2018-03-18T16:29:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-18T16:29:43","slug":"witch-hunt-claims-must-stop-it-undermines-judiciary-casely-hayford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/03\/witch-hunt-claims-must-stop-it-undermines-judiciary-casely-hayford\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch-hunt claims must stop, it undermines judiciary – Casely-Hayford"},"content":{"rendered":"
Anti-corruption campaigner, Sydney Casely-Hayford, has condemned the constant claims of witch-hunting anytime people are prosecuted by governments for alleged offences, saying such comments undermine the country’s judiciary, and wanes public confidence in the justice system.<\/p>\n
The National Organizer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), together with the Ashanti Regional branch of the party, have both alleged that the government is witch-hunting former COCOBOD boss, Dr. Stephen Opuni, following the AG\u2019s lawsuit against him.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”Iavn39MZJ5S0csqGN90xeF0986FEd0E3″]Other members of the NDC have repeated these suggestions.<\/p>\n
Speaking on Citi FM’s The Big Issue<\/strong>, Casely-Hayford\u00a0said the frequent claims of witch-hunting by spokespersons of both the NDC and NPP anytime one of their members is prosecuted for wrongdoing does not augur well for the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n \u201cAbuga Pele was not charged the NPP government. It was done by the NDC government and he has been found to be guilty\u2026 It transcended the change of government and that time when he was done, the same thing again, witch-hunting. In the case of Montie 3, [they said] witch-hunting. \u00a0Every time there has been anybody who is identified for a wrongdoing, NDC has come out to say it is witch-hunting. The NPP too does the same. It is becoming a politician\u2019s and a political thing and it is time to stop all that,\u201d he said on The Big Issue on Saturday.<\/p>\n \u2018Opuni is a victim of witch-hunting\u2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n The Ashanti Regional chapter of the NDC, following the Attorney General\u2019s filing of a lawsuit against Dr. Opuni last week for allegedly causing financial loss to the statd, claimed that the state was witch-hunting the former COCOBOD boss.<\/p>\n In a statement on the matter, it said it was appalled by the \u201c[government\u2019s] exceptional determination to destroy the reputation of a man who has labored to transform the cocoa sector in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n