General News of Tuesday, 23 August 2016Source: citifmonline.comMahama has set unnecessary precedent with Montie pardon - NdebugriJohn Ndebugri, Private Legal PractitionerA private legal practitioner, John Ndebugri has suggested that President John Dramani Mahama’s decision to pardon the Montie trio might put pressure on successive governments to pardon persons who commit similar offences in future. He has set a precedent, two of them in fact, and the future is unpredictable in that respect,”John Ndebugri said on Eyewitness News. Ndebugri believes, the public pressure put on the president by members of his own party to pardon the three had also set a precedent for similar future offences. “The first precedent is the one set by the NDC. “They should have kept quiet, gone behind the scenes and got the contemnors themselves to mount the pleas for clemency.

Source: GhanaWeb August 23, 2016 06:35 UTC