General News of Sunday, 4 March 2018<\/p>\n
Source: <\/strong>www.ghanaweb.com<\/p>\n 2018-03-04<\/p>\n The trust and confidence Ghanaian\u2019s had in the Judicial Service seem to have hit rocks ever since an expos\u00e9 by ace investigative journalist Anas Aremyaw Anas brought to light the atrocities and unethical escapades of over 180 Judges and Judicial Staff that took the nation by storm in 2015.<\/p>\n The nearly 500 hours video evidence which negatively put Ghana on the international spotlight preceded a petition to former President John Dramani Mahama and the Chief Justice requesting for the axing of the judges alleged to have been taking bribes and demanding sex.<\/p>\n The tussle between Anas and judicial service witnessed series of resignations and the dismissal of some judges from the Judicial Service for violating provisions of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n Three years down the line, the former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey has waded in on the development describing the judges implicated in the bribery scandal as a gang of thieves.<\/p>\n The professor posited that \u201cwhatever that is morally wrong cannot be politically right and whatever that is morally wrong cannot be economically correct\u201d thus a nation that exchanges transparency and rule of law deserves no better description than a jungle of \u201ccriminals on a large scale\u201d.<\/p>\n Prof. Martey, who is known for his rather \u2018strict\u2019 stance on a lot of issues rebuked leaders of the country for failing to arrest the canker despite their promises to deliver when elected to power.<\/p>\n \u201cIn our judicial system, we have witnessed a wave of judicial corruption in this country. Judges are there to promote the rule of law, they are to serve the people with the dispensation of justice more than any other church theologian. What it means to have a state without justice is a gang of thieves, a gang of criminals on a large scale,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo if there is a nation that twists justice, that makes the wicked righteous and the just to suffer they are all a gang of thieves on a large scale, gargantuan one,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n Prof. Martey was speaking at the Agape House New Testament Church on the topic \u2018Address The Mess – \u201cThe Mess in Our Nation\u201d.<\/p>\n![\"Professor](\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/32370721.295.jpg\" "\\"Professor")
play video<\/span>Former Moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana, Rt. Rev. Professor Emmanuel Martey<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n