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Crucify the Judges, we are all shouting, and that was exactly what we did in the late 70s and 80s, when we demanded that, ‘let the blood flow.’

Many years later, we have all singled out one man and are accusing him for all the wrongs that were done back then. We are a nation that, easily forgets its past, we live each day as it comes and time and time again, we have repeated the mistakes of the past.

The judges implicated in Anas and his Tiger Eye Pi, latest expose,’ the evidence is overwhelming, and so we have the right to call for their heads.

But we are a nation of rule of law and the basic preamble in law states that, an accused person is presumed innocent, until proven guilty by a competent court of jurisdiction.

We realize that some Ghanaians are excited, pumped up. They relish the spectacle of seeing our learned Judges sweat in the dock, looking rather harassed and insecure.

For some, this portrait of the Judges, who have presided over cases and sentenced others, is a demonstration that Ghana has entered an era, when the law has lost its sight, no longer able to respect privilege.

They sing the dawn of a new Ghana, but how many of them, have stopped to ask themselves, what is the cost of what we are jubilating about?

Just by screening the video and publishing details of the investigation in the papers, we have exposed the Judges to the world.

Their reputations, if they have any left are gone out of the window. At the end of the committee’s sitting and the court proceedings, a lot of them, will have nothing left to go on.

Assuming without admitting that, some of them get to walk free, where will they go and what will they do. I don’t think anybody; will be comfortable having any of these judges preside over their case.

Are we ready and do we have the means to pay that compensation. The Judiciary and the Executive should know that, these Judges, must all be condemned or we will have a lot to pay as a State.

They will sue the country for damages, and it will cost us a lot of money.

We should just pause for a moment in the midst of the jubilation and ask ourselves, whether we are ready to pay compensations.