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PPP counters Montie 3 petition

By Jeffrey Owusu-Mensah
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Just a few days after lawyers of the jailed Montie three, presented a petition calling for President John Mahama to pardon the trio, the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) has launched a counter-petition to convince the president  not to grant the presidential pardon.

 

The trio, host Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, a presenter with Montie FM  and two others Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson were on Wednesday July, 27 sentenced to four months in prison for contempt of the Supreme Court after they threatened on live radio to kill some judges over the Abu Ramadan-EC case.

The sentence which included a fine of GHC10,000 each was considered by many NDC supporters as harsh leading to the start of the petition to get the president to grant them amnesty.

The petititon which gained grounds after high profile government appointees and other supporters signed was presented to the Presidency last Tuesday.

But the PPP wants their petition to reinforce the Supreme Court’s decision to jail the trio for threatening to kill Supreme Court judges.

According to the party's Director of Policy, Kofi Asamoah Siaw “Our petition is anti the petition to free the ‘Montie 3’ as we have come to know them”.

In an interview on Joy FM, Mr Siaw said it will be a wrong move for the President to respond positively to the petition,adding that the party had already collected 147 signatures from Winneba in Central Region.

He said they started with constituency executives of the PPP and hope to collect considerable numbers to pressure the President to stay away from exercising his Article 72 powers.

“We need to uphold the integrity of the judiciary…we need to ensure that we use decent language in our politics”, he said.

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