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Though fallout from ace investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s exposé on judicial corruption has the tendency to bury the trust of Ghanaians and even investors in the matter of justice and dispute respectively, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw believes the society must share in the blame.

According to the private legal practitioner, “there is no judge selling justice like bread but it is people who go to the judges to buy it”.

Speaking on Okay Fm’s Ade Akye Abia Morning Show, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw alleged that “Judicial service staff members, clerks and bailiffs carry money to the judges” to skew judgment in favor offenders.

He again asserted that some of the people who entice the judges to engage in corruption are the police prosecutors and the parties involved in the case as they always want to bribe the judges; stressing society tend to corrupt judges.

“A lot of the lawyers are guilty of this bribery scandal; some lawyers cannot win case in court and so many lawyers go to bribe the judges to win cases. Some lawyers are on the payroll of the judges because they even work in their chambers,” he alleged.

He stressed that “we the lawyers, prosecutors, parties and judicial service members and the society go to bribe the judges; we corrupt the judges and some are not able to resist the temptations”.

“The people who are behind the bribery scandal should be investigated as well….do you blame the judges alone…I thank God Anas has exposed corruption in the judiciary but the truth is that the corrupt judges are not only 34 but there are more,” he stated.