{"id":99430,"date":"2015-03-15T06:03:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=99430"},"modified":"2015-03-15T06:03:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T06:03:15","slug":"our-only-hope-is-the-judiciary-they-are-live-goats-imani-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/03\/our-only-hope-is-the-judiciary-they-are-live-goats-imani-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"Our only hope is the Judiciary; ‘they are live goats’ – IMANI boss"},"content":{"rendered":"

President of IMANI Ghana, Franklin Cudjoe has expressed confidence in the Judiciary and noted that they are increasingly\u00a0becoming \u201cvery aggressive\u201d in discharging their duties because the blatant cases of corruption \u201cis getting to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cJudges are becoming very, very aggressive these days because I think the stealing is getting to them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”gstXBfS64BzJEdJv3JtHvQljsRRZYNuw”]His remarks come in the wake of reports of massive\u00a0disappointment expressed by some Ghanaians and a High Court Judge, Justice Ajet-Nasam over the how the state\u00a0prosecutors poorly handled the criminal case brought against businessman Alfred Woyome.<\/p>\n

The Judge, before acquitting and discharging Woyome<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>on the two counts of causing financial loss to the state and defrauding by false pretense is said to have lambasted the state prosecutors<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for failing to call\u00a0key witnesses to testify.<\/p>\n

Justice Ajet-Nasam\u2019s criticism was hailed by majority of Ghanaians who felt the AG\u2019s department may have deliberately lost the case.<\/p>\n

This seemed to have angered state prosecutors who issued a strong worded statement over what they termed as “unwarranted and uninformed attacks” on them.<\/p>\n

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But the IMANI boss argued that Judges are becoming aggressive and determined to maintain the dignity of the Judiciary because \u201cthey are experiencing the dumsor\u2026they pay taxes.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur only remedy now because everybody now is a dead goat \u2013 Our only remedy now is the judiciary because they are live goats,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He was certain that the failure of the AG\u2019s department to effectively prosecute the case \u201cshows some deliberate attempt not to involve the characters [key witnesses]\u2026I think that this is the highest form of organized plunder and I am ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n

He described Mr. Woyome as \u201cjust an arranger; he was an engineer of finances; he was the perfect middle man and so the people who actually benefitted from this rot have been left aside.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Cudjoe suggested that the Attorney General must immediately charge the key witnesses who were not called to testify \u201cbecause that is the only way we can redeem some image.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c… Betty Mould Iddrisu, Barton Oduro, all those people that the Judge has rightly fingered should be charged now!\u201d he fumed.<\/p>\n

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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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