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Montie 3 sentence is harsh but I won’t back petition – Hanna Tetteh

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh
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Despite publicly expressing her disagreement with the Supreme Court's jailing of the Montie trio, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hanna Tetteh has indicated that she is not under any form of pressure to back calls for the release of the Montie trio because other Ministers are doing so.

According to her, she would continue to express her fierce disagreement with the sentence which she calls harsh, but would not necessarily back calls for the President to release them.

Though vocal about the harshness of the four month jail term, Ms Tetteh did not join ministers and other government appointees who signed a petition calling for the President to release the trio using his powers under Article 72 of the Constitution.

 

Asked why she did not sign a petition, she told Bernard Avle on Viasat 1's Ghana Report,  "I don’t think it is for me to do that", adding that her colleagues however, “are entitled to do so if they so wish.”

“If this becomes a precedence so that going forward, everybody else who is seen to have spoken contemptuously of the court gets four months and above, well then I guess it is a principle that we can all accept,” she added.

She maintained that the sentence by the judiciary was harsh saying, “I have already said that I think the sentence is harsh. I think that if the President could reduce their sentence, it will be welcomed".