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Judicial Service Can’t Force Anyone To Respect Them – MFWA
The Executive Director of the Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), Sulemana Braimah has indicated that no institution can compel Ghanaians to respect them.
His comments comes on the back of a directive by the Judicial Service to the media to delete every negative stories about them from their various websites.
“In the light of the foregoing, we have our client’s instructions to demand, and we hereby so do that, as most responsible media institutions now do regarding incendiary and spiteful publications, you immediately. Pull or cause to be pulled down and cleared from your platforms, all statements and speeches which convey and/or insinuate hateful, spiteful, vengeful and incendiary communication against Justices of our client especially those hearing the election petition,” the statement from the Judicial Service said.
In reaction, Mr Braimah told Francis Abban on the Morning Starr that the Judiciary should have given evidence on what it deemed offensive.
“What kind of statement will be deemed hateful and all these words that the letter put there because there were no examples of publications. If a media house thinks there’s something wrong with what the judiciary is doing, criticisms are in order but it shouldn’t be direct attacks on them.
“I think I must say no institution can force the masses to accord it with respect. As a country, we must be mindful of how we are taking our partisanship and not to undermine the institution that’s supposed to keep our democracy going,” he said.
