I prayed for the three court invitees – Sammy Awuku

The Deputy Communications Director of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammy Awuku, has stated that he went on his knees and prayed for the three persons invited to the Supreme Court of Ghana for making presumptuous comments.

Mr. Awuku opined that as far as appearing before the Supreme Court for making comments deemed contemptuous with regards to the ongoing election petition is concerned, he is a “School Prefect”.

Managing Editor of the Daily Searchlight newspaper, Ken Kuranchie and Stephen Atubiga were on Tuesday jailed 10 days and 3 days respectively for making contemptuous publications and comments. The third culprit, Kwabena Boahen, was set free when the court's attention was drawn to a publication retracting the reportage alleging he had made contemptuous comments.

The NPP Deputy Communications Director made these comments in allusion to his appearance before the nine-member panel adjudicating on the election petition suit on Wednesday after he was declared wanted by the court, for describing a warning it issued against deliberate misrepresentation of the events of the election trial, as “selective and hypocritical”.

He, however, revealed that he spent a few hours at church on Sunday to say a word of prayer for the trio invited.

“It was not easy standing before the Judges, so I spent three hours in church on Sunday, praying for courage for my brothers and asked God to intervene in the situation,” Sammy Awuku said.

Speaking on Peace FMs ‘Kokrokoo’ programme, the NPP communicator who had made headlines throughout last week, further called for a clear line to be drawn on cases in court in order to prevent situations like these or else “it would get to time, we would all run away from radio stations because we would not want to be cited for contempt”.