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Peacefmonline.com can confirm that Chief Justice Georgina Wood and Sulley Gbadegbe JSC on Tuesday recused themselves from the panel sitting on the contempt case against some radio communicators who allegedly threatened to kill justices of the Supreme Court enabling Sophia Akuffo JSC to preside and Julius Ansah JSC to replace Justice Gbadegbe. 

According to PeaceFM's Senior Reporters Yaw Obeng Manu and Agya Kwabena, who were in court to cover proceedings, the two decided on that course of action because they were specifically named by the accused during radio discussions.

After the Court was reconstituted, the Supreme Court ordered the owners of Muntie FM to appear in persons on Monday, because, to them, no representation is permitted in criminal proceedings, they specify directors.

The case was subsequently adjourned to Monday 18th July.

It is recalled that Alistair Nelson and Godwin Ako Gunn, who were panellists on ‘Pampaso’, a political programme on Montie FM in Accra on June 29, warned judges of Ghana’s highest court to be wary of their conduct in the case involving the Electoral Commission and Mr Abu Ramadan if they did not want to suffer the fate of the three members of the bench who were shot to death and burnt on June 30, 1982 in the era of the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC).

Mr Nelson has communicated his apology for making those comments but Mr Gunn has denied ever being in the studios of the station on the day the alleged threats were issued.

The two, as well as the host of the show, Mugabe Maase, have been summoned to appear before the apex court today for making such threats against the judiciary.