A Private Legal Practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has urged the Justice Senyo Dzamefe Commission to charge anyone who passes prejudicial comments on the investigations it is carrying out on the world cup committee.<\/p>\n
He observed that the various public commentaries on the Commission’s work are sometimes prejudicial and unhelpful to the commission’s work.<\/p>\n
Lawyer Ampaw referred to calls by the Programs Officer of the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII), Mary Addah, for the former Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah to be brought back to the Commission to answer more questions because some of the actors involved in the committee have contradicted some of his statements.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”HXe77XnjHcRaQgtlleXZCyaON6Eb2M55″]She said: \u201cthe former Youth and Sports Minister must be called back to respond to that question. It is time for people who are put in authority to stop taking people for a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n
But speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Maurice Ampaw urged \u00a0the Commission to exert more of its powers.<\/p>\n \u201cThe commission is doing its work. Don\u2019t we have to give the commission the space, the freedom without any unnecessary interference. It\u2019s the commission that has the power to look into the issues. The commission has all the evidence they are looking into. At the end of the day they will come out with their findings supported by evidence. So who dare you now out of the piece of information you have, you make a final, conclusive statement that somebody has engaged in fraud. It is unfortunate, highly unfair to Elvis Afriyie Ankrah,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Lawyer Ampaw said such commentaries could portray the commission as biased after the completion of its work.<\/p>\n \u201cIf at the end of the day the commission comes out and find out that Elvis Afriyie Ankrah is clean then you see the position you\u2019ve put the commission? People will begin to raise issues that the commission has been biased,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n