{"id":465263,"date":"2018-02-17T21:00:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/17\/publish-controversial-research-baako-dares-atuguba\/"},"modified":"2018-02-17T21:00:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T21:00:34","slug":"publish-controversial-research-baako-dares-atuguba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/17\/publish-controversial-research-baako-dares-atuguba\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish controversial research \u2013 Baako dares Atuguba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Saturday, 17 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/15586147.295.jpg\" alt=\"Freshbaako Kwaku Baako\" title=\"Freshbaako Kwaku Baako\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kweku Baako, Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518901234_673_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako has added his voice to calls for law Professor Raymond Atuguba to publish damning research that establishes the political leanings of judges of the apex court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll plead with Prof. Atuguba, to do us a favour, a huge favour to quickly publish the report,\u201d he made the suggestion on News File Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The research, conducted by renowned law Professor, Raymond Atuguba, seeks to establish that the voting pattern of judges of the Supreme Court was influenced by the political party that appointed them.<\/p>\n<p>Presenting his findings on Thursday at the 2018 GIMPA Law Conference, Prof Atuguba explained that he analysed one hundred political cases in Ghana, where it was established that the voting patterns of the justices favoured the parties which appointed them.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Research, Mr. Baako said the move is a finest idea, but however cautioned that without better and further particulars, it\u2019ll be a dangerous exercise for one to consider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026If this kind of project is done in a way now we\u2019re discussing it, it\u2019s very dangerous. It\u2019s an invitation to step into a minefield; that\u2019s my candid opinion\u201d Baako argued.<\/p>\n<p>Baako\u2019s position also corroborates that of the former CHRAJ boss, Emile Short, who\u2019d insisted the publication of such work would be useful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026academic research is useful if we can critique the methodology,\u201d according to Short.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo and some Justices of the Supreme Court strongly disapproved the idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is an American type of research that you have done\u2026that\u2019s fine, but please be careful what you are importing into our environment,\u201d the CJ has said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 73 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Saturday, 17 February 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-17 Kweku Baako, Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide The Managing Editor of the New Crusading Guide newspaper, Kweku Baako has added his voice to calls for law Professor Raymond Atuguba to publish damning research that establishes the political leanings of judges of the apex [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":398880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}