Justice Afreh’s Kids Dare Yankey
The children of Justice Kwame Afreh have taken exception to Dr. George Sipa Yankey's post-humous attacks on their late father, describing his recent comments on a radio station as distasteful.
Justice Kwame Afreh presided over the court that sentenced Dr Yankey to a jail-term over a financial malfeasance, and the NDC stalwart mentioned recently that the judgement was not written by the late Judge, but by three persons at the Castle, the seat of government.
Justice Afreh's children have therefore dared Dr Yankey to boldly identify the three persons he claims wrote Justice Afreh's 90-page judgment, demanding also that he points out the insults embedded in the judgment including evidence of the time that the deceased was called to the Castle.
Describing as repulsive the inference to the late Chief Justice's death as a punishment from God by Dr. Yankey, the children in a rejoinder stated that “the late Justice Kwame Afreh was a practicing born-again Christian, and so are we his children; so may Almighty God, the greatest judge and advocate judge us all”.
The children's reaction comes on the heels of a government statement which debunked his position that it was the Presidency and not the court which jailed him.
Dr. Yankey's interview on a Joy FM programme, the children noted, seeks to tarnish the reputation of their father and discredit the judgment that he wrote.
“We, his children, therefore, deem it necessary to protest and defend the integrity and reputation of our dear father,” they stated.
As for their father's judgment which Dr. Yankey alleged emanated from the Castle, the children stated: “We would not defend the judgment now, though we understand, from legal brains that it is a masterpiece that would serve as a legal guide for all.”
Promising to defend their father and all that he stood for to the hilt, they expressed displeasure with what they described as the mudslinging that has gone on after his death, adding, “For us to keep quiet as it continues would be unforgivable. This is because after a while the mud would stick and the untruths would become facts.”
Extolling the virtues of their father, they described him as an affable person who had stood by his principles and convictions.
The late Justice Dixon Kwame Afreh was not found wanting in his professional and personal life as to allow someone to write his judgment for him as alleged by Dr. Yankey, they maintained.
“We can say for a fact that he wrote the judgment and ruling by himself. He had nothing to gain or lose from the judgment he wrote,” the children stated.
Continuing, they pointed out that their father wrote judgments with a clear conscience as he had always done in the performance of his national duties.
Their father, they went on, inculcated in them, “values he had, which have made us God-fearing, humble, principled, patriotic, fearless and to always stand for and speak the truth.”
The children of the late Judge were appalled with Dr. Yankey's utterances since the deceased cannot respond to them from his grave.
Led by their elder brother, Kwame Afreh, the children told DAILY GUIDE that Mr. Yankey might be in a confused state of mind, a reason for his utterances about his jail sentence.
According to the children, at the appropriate time they would organize a press conference.
By A.R. Gomda