Embattled judges Justice Paul Uuter Dery and Mustapha Habib Logoh have sued the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) for conferring the Journalist of the Year 2015 award on investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
Anas was decorated with the coveted award of the inky fraternity following a two-year investigation which exposed rot in justice delivery in Ghana. About 22 lower court judges and some senior ones have been dismissed by the chief justice and President John Mahama respectively for being caught on video receiving bribes to compromise justice.
Dery and Logoh are in court contesting a petition by Anas to have them dismissed over their conduct in the video evidence. The other defendants in the case are Anas (1st defendant), Roland Affail Monney (2nd - GJA president), Mathias Tibu 4th defendant, Vice President (GJA), Dave Agbenu 5th defendant, General Secretary (GJA), Rogking Clottey 6th defendant, Organising Secretary (GJA), Linda Asante 7th defendant Treasurer (GJA), and Mary Mensah 8th defendant Public Relations Officer (GJA)
According to them, awarding Anas is prejudicial and unconstitutional on the part of the umbrella body of journalists in Ghana since the petition is being challenged.
They want the court to declare that “the conduct of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on 27th August, 2016 by which the GJA, at its 21st Awards ceremony, gave the “Overall Best Journalist of the Year, 2015 Award” to Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his exposé on so-called judicial bribery and corruption is inconsistent with or in contravention of Article 3 (3) (a) and 3 (4) (a) of the 1992 Constitution and thus unconstitutional.”
They also want a declaration that: “The conduct of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on 27th August, 2016 by which the GJA, at its 21st Awards ceremony, gave the “Overall Best Journalist of the Year, 2015 Award” to Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his exposé on so-called judicial bribery and corruption is inconsistent with or in contravention of Article 41 (b) and (d) of the 1992 Constitution and thus unconstitutional.
“A declaration that the conduct of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on 27th August, 2016 by which the GJA, at its 21st Awards ceremony, gave the “Overall Best Journalist of the Year, 2015 Award” to Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his exposé on so-called judicial bribery and corruption is inconsistent with or in contravention of Article 162 (5) of the 1992 Constitution and thus unconstitutional.
“A declaration that the conduct of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) on 27th August, 2016 by which the GJA, at its 21st Awards ceremony, gave the “Overall Best Journalist of the Year, 2015 Award” to Anas Aremeyaw Anas for his exposé on so-called judicial bribery and corruption when cases are pending in the Supreme Court and the High Court over the subject matter of the exposé on the so-called judicial bribery and corruption amounts to contempt of court pursuant to Articles 19 (12) and 126 (2) of the 1992 Constitution.
“An order nullifying the Award the Ghana Journalist Association (GJA) gave to the 1st Defendant pursuant to Article 1 (2) of the 1992 Constitution.
“An order directed at the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) to withdraw the Award from Anas Aremeyaw Anas.
“An order punishing the Executive Committee Members of the Ghana Journalists Association (GJA) herein for contempt of court.”
Dery and Logoh are also seeking the following reliefs: “1. A declaration that the Plaintiffs never demanded for any money from the 1st Defendant to influence their decisions in any cases pending before them.
“2. A declaration that the audio visual recordings and transcripts therefore were fraudulently and unlawfully obtained by the 1st Defendant.
“3. General damages for invasion of privacy against the 1st Defendant.
“4. Punitive damages for invasion of privacy against the 1st Defendant
AND against the 1st to 8th Defendants jointly and severally the following reliefs.
“1. General damages for defamation against the 1st Defendant.
“2. Aggravated damages for the malicious and fraudulent recordings, publication and circulation of audio visual recordings.
“3. Exemplary damages against the reckless publications and circulations of the said audio visual recordings.
“4. Compensatory damages against for the damage done to the Plaintiffs’ reputation.
“5. A perpetual injunction restraining the Defendants from publishing any further malicious, unlawful and defamatory material about the Plaintiffs.
“6. Costs including legal fees. “
Source: starr FM
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Did Anas do that so called expose` to weaken our judicial system for this rogue government to have their way or what?Ots like the whole thing was orchestrated from the Flagstaff house to make our judicial system toothless. Why didn't Anas investigate the Flagstaff house where Ghana's money is being stolen?if not to weaken the judiciary because of the bribery scandal by Mr Kamazoe, why didn't he investigate that scandal when the president was a Vice president? I don't believe the work he did because it was too childish for a judge to accept tubers of yam and aponkye as bribe when the president collected a Ford Expedition as bribe in exchange of a contract and Anas didn't hear that one, so he didn't also hear of the $600,000 fence wall at Ghana's Embassy in Burkina Faso? Then what kind of investigative journalism is that he see tubers of yam and goat but he didn't see Ghana's money going down the drain? OMG ! in jungle Ghana each one for his stomach.Man !! What will you gain from destroying the hard earned lives of these judges by mere yams and aponkye, when your president is releasing his party members who were convicted to serve jail sentences. What difference does it make for a judge also to set free a criminal? We shall or face judgement here on earth or above.
The best way to harm or weaken anaas is to leak real picture of him.