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The running mate of the standard-bearer of the opposition Democratic National Congress (NDC), Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, has called for the law to deal with Assin Central MP Kennedy Agyapong for using abusive language against the country’s judges and magistrates.
In his interaction with officials from the Ghana Integrity Initiative (GII) on Thursday, he insisted that the judiciary must break the whip just as it happened in the Montie trio.
His comment comes after Agyapong, in an outburst, used non-printable words to express his anger at a judge’s decision to grant a court order against him without allegedly conducting due diligence during a television show Wednesday.
Among other things, the deputy said that he had revenge against the country’s judges who abuse their power in the performance of their duty and threatened to “face the judge” who would give the verdict.
The deputy from Assin Central has offered an unreserved apology to the Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the judges and magistrates.
Commenting on the development, he noted that Montie’s trio who committed a similar crime in 2016 were treated according to law until they were granted clemency by President John Mahama.
Therefore, it will only be fair if the new deputy of the Patriotic Party goes through the same process of being tried and fined or sentenced.
“If you are going to speak of name and shame, it must be consistent. If you are going to apply the laws, you must be consistent.
“So someone else does the same and just comes over to apologize so end of story. That is corruption and I want to see that also highlighted because we are not allowing ourselves to abide by the rules of telling the truth.
“So these are the things we have to be very focused on in order to move, otherwise a kind of solipsism is created among young people and that is dangerous because they are the future.”
