Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Reverend Professor Emmanuel Martey has described persons criticising the Supreme Court's sentencing of three people to four months in jail over contemptuous comments made on Accra-based Montie FM as nation wreckers who must not be entertained.
The trio, Salifu Maase aka Mugabe, host of Montie FM's Pampaso Talk Show and two of his panelists, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson, were last Wednesday jailed four months and fined GH¢10,000 each after threatening to kill Supreme Court judges over their ruling in the Abu Ramadan-EC case.
The sentence has been commended and condemned in equal measure with efforts being made by the Free Montie 3 Movement to petition President John Mahama to pardon the convicts.
Many including minsters of state,  Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyeman, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa, Benjamin Dagadu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Nana Oye Lithur, Elizabeth Ofosu-Adjare and New Patriotic Party (NPP) founding member, Dr Nyaho Nyaho Tamakloe have signed a petition book to get the three released.
But according to the Presby Moderator, a nation is ruled by laws and therefore cannot allow the misconduct of citizens to prevail.
“A nation is an entity, a people ruled by law; so if there are any people who are a lawless society then they are doomed. A country like America, when you break the law even if you are the President or a Presidential candidate and they get you, you’ll go to jail. I hear some people are saying what the Judges did was not right. Look, threatening to kill a Judge, it has happened before in Ghana, whoever has issues with the sentence of these three people are nation wreckers who must be condemned and not entertained", he told his congregation on Sunday.