In 2016 President John Dramani Mahama took the not often utilized Presidential power of pardon and applied it to some NDC activists who had gotten themselves into trouble and landed in jail for contempt.
The infamous ‘Montie 3’ – Salifu ‘Mugabe’ Maase, Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson – were jailed by the Supreme Court of Ghana after a radio show in which they threatened violence against some of the justices.
Celebrity Lawyer Maurice Ampaw says he regretted declaring a hunger strike in the heat of the Montie 3 saga.
The lawyer revealed to KSM that he sometimes makes rash pronouncements when he’s fired up, pronouncement which he mostly later regrets.
Ghanaians were shocked out of their minds Thursday when news broke that members of the NPP affiliated vigilante group, the Delta Force, had attacked a court and broke out 13 members of theirs standing on trial.
The shocking attack on the most sacred institution of the land was roundly condemned by all well meaning Ghanaians, as it was clearly a development that threatens to erode the democratic credentials of our nation.
Peace Fm’s morning show host Kwame Sefa Kayi says the Montie 3 saga was the lowest point of 2016 for him, describing it as an ’embarrassing moment’ for all of us and a ‘blot’ on our collective consciences.
Kwame Sefa Kayi said the issue blighted all of us, the media, politicians, judges and the general public and should simply not have happened.
Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako says the president, John Dramani Mahama pardoning Montie 3 caused the party’s lost in the just ended general polls.
Salifu Maase alias Mugabe and two panelists, Alistair Tairo Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn were convicted for making contemptuous statements about the Court.
John Dramani Mahama has been speaking out and defending his decision to pardon the Montie 3, saying that keeping them in jail past one month would have served no benefit to anyone.
The President exercised his Presidential prerogative of mercy last month to pardon the Montie 3 – the three NDC activists who were jailed for four months after threatening Supreme Court Justices.
The last few months’ conversations across the Ghanaian political landscape have been driven by the Montie 3–who were recently released from prison courtesy of President Mahama’s prerogative of mercy powers.
On Sunday, the ‘Montie 3’, though two were missing, attended a Thanksgiving service to Thank God for bringing them back–and promised they will soon storm the airwaves.
Maurice Ampaw is currently on a one week hunger strike (so we’re told) as a form of protest against the President of the land, John Dramani Mahama, for granting a Presidential pardon to the Montie 3.
Ampaw began his hunger strike Tuesday, August 23, after a statement announced the pardon late Monday.
The Montie 3 have been freed from their bondage, walking out of the Akuse cells Friday morning following their receipt of a Presidential pardon.
The three – Godwin Ako Gunn, Salifu Maase and Alistair Nelson – were jailed following a radio program hosted by Maase on Montie Fm in which they threatened the lives of Supreme Court justices.
Friday, August 26 – this is the day the Montie 3 are set to be pardoned after the remission of their sentences by the President, and the three have consequently walked out of prison.
Alistair Nelson, Salifu ‘Mugabe’ Maase and Godwin Ako Gunn have been released per the executive order, and already the jubilation have kick started for the NDC faithful who believe they have won a moral victory.
A member of the Council of State, Nana Kodua Kesse – has called on Ghanaians unhappy with the President’s decision to grant a pardon to the Montie 3 to send the matter to court if they wished.
Nana Kodua Kesse, who is the Oyokohene of New Juaben, was part of the Council’s deliberations which recommended a pardon to the President, who acted based upon that recommendation.
The boss of the Ghana Football Association, Kwesi Nyantakyi, says the application of the Presidential prerogative for mercy should be used jealously and sparingly, and not as frivolously as President John Dramani Mahama just employed in the case of the Montie 3.
The FA boss, speaking on Morning Starr Tuesday, said that the decision to free the three, for threatening the lives of judges, is not a good use of the constitutionally mandates power.
Maurice Ampaw commenced a ten day hunger strike today (Tuesday) and already he claims to be feeling the effects of it.
The lawyer who’s always in the news for pretty much anything, promised to embark on the strike in case the President pardoned the Montie 3, jailed for threatening the lives of Supreme Court justices.
Lawyer Maurice Ampaw is keeping his promise to embark on an hunger strike in the event of the President pardoning the Montie 3, an event which occurred on Monday.
A statement signed by the Communication Minister announced the President’s decision to remit the sentences of the jailed trio on compassionate grounds.
Politricks at its best – Ghana’s President, John Dramani Mahama, has exercised his presidential prerogative for mercy and authorised the pardon of the so-called ‘Montie 3’.
The news was announced in a statement released Monday by the Presidency and signed by the Minister for Communications, Dr Edward Omane Boamah.
