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You can still be in contempt after judgment – Law lecturer

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  • Kwame - NPP 10 years ago

    WE ARE COMING NDC

  • BVRZ 10 years ago

    THANKS

  • Mends, The Lone Ranger. 10 years ago

    Shut up Abotsi. What is contemptuous in making a comment about this travesty of judgement? Injustice Atuguba is a damn tribalist and the judgement he passed had nothing to do with law but, tribalism. Do you remember the sente ...
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  • okofo 10 years ago

    Yes, the law required to apply against the irregularities in elections was IGNORED, and subjectivity applied.

    If anything one says is deemed to be contempt by the judges, who calls the judges to order? Do ALL GHANAIANS hav ...
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  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    Why do you cry because Pepeni is a president? Can you not accept the fact that your illiterate father cannot be a president? Can you not accept the fact that Pepeni president is better than you who is doing a baboon work in ...
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  • insight to the bone 10 years ago

    scribes and pharisees were supposed to be learned men like your toilet carrying atuguba but it was the evil knowledge of the devil and now we know no institution is correct . the good thing about all of this is that more and ...
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  • frankloy 10 years ago

    Have you had a chance to read the reasons behind the judgement before coming to this conclusion? If you follow the judicial process, you will find that Atuguba was one of the judges who threw out Tsatsu's challenge of the fas ...
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  • Yaw. 10 years ago

    It's so sad that out of ignorance of the majority,Ghana is gradually being turned to dictatorship.
    Can you believe it,injustice has been done and we're being threatened for voicing out our concerns.
    I knew it and said befor ...
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  • MATIGARI 10 years ago

    THANK YOU MR ABOTSI. MUSTAFA HAMID THAT MULATO TEACHING ISLAMIC STUDIES AT UCC SHOULD TAKE A CUE FROM THIS ADVICE.HE SHOULD BE TOLD THAT ISLAMIC STUDIES IS NOT THE SAME AS LAW. HE IS ADVICERD TO RETRACT THE COMMENTS HE MADE O ...
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  • YHO 10 years ago

    the court can jail of us and leave their family GOD will provide.

  • Guv 10 years ago

    BUT NO EVIDENCE

  • Nana 10 years ago

    JUSTICE IN GHANA IS SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER ATUGUBA & CO ARE CORRUPT, THE NDC GOVERNMENT, THE ELECTORAL COMMISION IS CORRUPT, THE SUFFERING NDC FOOT SOLDIERS ARE BLIND, AND SUPPORT BLINDLY WITHOUT QUESTIONING WHY ONLY THE ...
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  • KOFI ADDO 10 years ago

    we are waiting for you.

  • ghana-NPP 10 years ago

    Alan cash will sweep mahama out 2016

  • NANA 10 years ago

    BETTER GHANA SHOULD COME

  • OBTT 10 years ago

    GO AWAY WITH YOUR NONSENSE

  • SHABASH 10 years ago

    We should be cultured in making statements in order for our children and generation unborn to emulate.If you insult me I bet you; I will never insult back and I will still be my person.

  • chris 10 years ago

    It took too long....Bush vrs Gore, Kenya 2012/13 and similar disputes were all resolved with days..The long duration created the suspense and tension that had the potential of exploding into violence or civil war...The Chief ...
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  • ADELE PALMAS. 10 years ago

    ANWONANII ABOA TWE WO HO.NIPA GYAN GYAN.

  • GHANAVIA 10 years ago

    Atuguba Etogobo you true colours have been exposed.
    Is it not very strange despite overwhelming disclosure of irregularities during and after the election, justice Etogobo has become a dumb,deaf and blind to all the evidenc ...
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  • Kojo 10 years ago

    The worse Ghana agenda is on course

  • I-SEE-THE-WAY (USA) 10 years ago

    NO MORE DEMOCRACY IN GHANA UNDER MAHAMA AND ATUBUGA? VERY DARK DAYS IN GHANA INDEED. BUT TIME WILL TELL. ANOTHER AKAN "RAWLINGS" WILL EMERGE SOON. THEY SHOULD ENJOY WILL IT LASTS!!!

  • Funnythat 10 years ago

    Why do you not your self pose as Akan Rawlings. You coward Nigger

  • DENNIS AVOY, Italy 10 years ago

    HAULING THOSE WHO MAKE DEROGATORY REMARKS AND CONTEMPTUOUS STATEMENTS BEFORE COURT AND PUNISHED SHOULD NOT END AFTER THE VERDICT, THIS SHOULD CONTINUE TO PUT THOSE WHO TALK BY HEART IN CHECK

  • afadi nsroJAH 10 years ago

    Mends,choose your words before opening your mouth bcos it stink and save your bullshit for yourself.learn how to deal with loss and disappointment

  • YAA 10 years ago

    WE WILL TALK AND NO ONE CAN DO FUKO. ATUGUBA GOD WILL PUNISH YOU. THIEVES

  • frankloy 10 years ago

    Get a copy of the judgement and read it and don't follow politicians like Sir John who say truth was on their part. The revolved around what is over-voting and biometric verification to which there are contestable definitions

  • Kofi Ghana 10 years ago

    Thank you Yaa. Let them try to catch anybody and they will know there are men in Ghana. THIEVES. If we cannot have trust in the Judiciary, we will show them come 2016 that we are men enough to take the law into our own hands ...
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  • poko a poko 10 years ago

    contempt my ass. Brain dead judges.

  • Sarkodie 10 years ago

    Are you guys going to cry to death? NPP should learn to accept defeat in good faith because as you are involved in politics there will loses and victory in elections.

  • Ewe man 10 years ago

    You stupid fool. let them catch all of us a lock us up. You think this is the end of it? You are brewing trouble. The stealers will never enjoy what they have stolen.

  • Ohemaa 10 years ago

    there is also no justification for Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, a legislator and Minister of State has defied two Superior Courts orders to vacate the bungalow he occupies. This is an act of insubordination that must be condemned b ...
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  • CAPE COAST BOY 10 years ago

    THIS NPP GUYS WILL NOT GO TO SC AGAIN BUT PUT THE MATTER IN THIR OWN HANDS AND WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPENED ? THE SC HAS PUT THIS COUNTRY ON FIRE COME 2016 ELECTION

  • Chuck Wayo 10 years ago

    With due respect Doc, you are wrong on this one. Freedom of speech is enshrined in the Constitution and the SC cannot cow people with contempt just to suppress their Freedom of expression. SC will be cluttered with flivorous ...
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  • ODENEHO KASAFADIE DWASO 10 years ago

    EBIN NE ETA, CONTEMPT.NO TENGIBLE INTERPPLETATION FOR RULLING .WE WISH SOMEBODY ATTEMPT COUL WE SHALL ALL FOLLOW ,BECAUSE THERE IS NO PROPER JUSTICE.

  • JC 10 years ago

    DANGEROUS RULING BY DISHONEST SC JUDGES! TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE LAW, CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS & INSTRUMENTS. HOW WILL AFRICA DEVELOP WITH CHARACTERS LIKE THESE?

  • KKO 10 years ago

    Even when the judges themselves CANNOT agree among themselves? When it took them three hours to walk from their chambers to the Supreme Court? The only people who came out "taller" in this petition were Nana, Jake, Dr Bawumia ...
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  • GREAT NANA ANTWI 10 years ago

    ARE YOU IN NEED OF A FAST POWERFULL SPIRITUALIST google or go www.greatnanapowerfullspiritualist.blogspot.com

  • Explo Nani-Kofi 10 years ago

    So does my good old friend, Sir John, also knows that he can still be in contempt after the judgement? I hope that doesn't happen to him. How can I get in touch with Eko Sii Sen of Asempa FM?

  • CAPII 10 years ago

    THE SC JUDGES FAILED MOTHER GHANA,APPROVED CORRUPTION WITHIN NDC GOVT AND HAVE THE NATION SITTING ON TIME BOMB. THIS "ANIMAL FARM" VERDICT WILL DESTROY GHANA.1979 CORRUPT PEOPLE WERE KILLED. 2013 NDC CORRUPT GOVT IS ENDORSED ...
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  • Asoreba 10 years ago

    The Judges are now "God" in Ghana that nobody can speak against what they do, Right? If they pass "fair" judgements, they should not care about what someone says. When Solomon made a decision to divide a "living" baby to se ...
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  • Justman 10 years ago

    JUST HAMMER IT HARD INTO THEIR EARS. UP TILL NOW THEY CANNOT COMPREHEND ANYTHING. IT IS SAD.

  • Mensah 10 years ago

    Kwasea you don't want people to comment on those who were biased?

  • KKAPLO 10 years ago

    If that do happen the Supeme Court will be judging with or by dictatorship. It will be equally like military regime style of ruling except this time with pen. With reference to the Masters of democracy (America, Britain, etc) ...
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  • FREEDOM AND JUSTICE 10 years ago

    hey, do not mix-up freedom of speech with contempt of court. You are confused; it is only under dictators that the population can not air their views.

  • concerned citizen 10 years ago

    I am glad sir that you are educating the public for them to know that they can still be hauled to the courts if they make scandalous statements about the judgement. The judges will not spare them if they want to be knuckle h ...
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  • Okpoti 10 years ago

    Contempt? Kill me for contempt. Eternal death awaits mahama and Atuguba