Suing spree: Dery et al. to sue God soon - Baako mocks

Frantic efforts by some judges to use the courts to frustrate the publication of an investigative video report by Anas Aremeyaw Anas are being reduced to sarcasm.

Editor-in-Chief of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Malik Kweku Baako Jnr. is forecasting the judges charging God in the suing spree – impossibility.

The judges, numbering 34, 12 from the high court and 22 in the circuit and magistrate courts, allegedly freed criminals after money, goats and other items exchanged hands.

A disturbed Chief Justice Georgina Wood has set up a committee to investigative the biggest bribery scandal yet to hit the judiciary. Investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas had petitioned the Chief Justice to impeach the judges and presented a video evidence showing the judges allegedly misconducting themselves.

The committee’s work has been fraught with numerous suits. Some have challenged its procedure.

One of the implicated judges, Justice Paul Uuter Dery has been moving from one court to another seeking several reliefs.

He filed various processes at an Accra High Court that is hearing cases on the judicial scandal, challenging the legality of the evidence which has formed the basis for investigative proceedings against him and others. He first wanted to stop public screening of the video on their alleged corrupt act but later withdrew it. The video was screened and watched by thousands at the Accra International Conference Centre in September.

People queued to watch the video on September 22
Justice Dery filed a contempt suit at the same court, this time seeking to imprison Anas Aremeyaw Anas and four others. Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, a Court of Appeal judge sitting as a Justice of the High Court this week dismissed the case on grounds that Justice Dery himself had earlier withdrawn the case seeking to stop Anas from screening the video.

Justice Paul Dery has since filed a suit appealing her ruling at the Appeals Court .

When information went around that the video titled "Ghana in the Eyes of God – Epic of Injustice" was going to be shown again in Kumasi, the High Court judge filed an application for interlocutory injunction in a Kumasi High Court .

The screening slated for Friday October 2, was eventually aborted by the organisers much to the chagrin of curious viewers who had trooped to the Kumasi branch of the Golden Tulip hotel to watch the video.

“Each time the court is also ruling and they are appealing; look, the next thing that would happen, perhaps in my mind’s eye is that they would be suing God,” kweku Baako uttered on Joy FM/ Multi TV's Newsfile on Saturday.

The ace journalist attempted to explain: “God would be dragged in there for contempt, because he manages the skies all over the world, the whole universe. They are going to stop God from creating the opportunity for Anas...”