General News of Monday, 22 August 2016Source: 3news.comPardon for Montie 3 ‘bastardisation’ of our justice system – Egbert FaibileLawyer Egbert Faibile JnrLegal practitioner, Egbert Faibile Jnr, has condemned President John Mahama’s decision to remit the four-month sentence handed to the Montie trio by the Supreme Court, describing it as an attack on Ghana’s judiciary. “President Mahama has attacked the Judiciary in a most unacceptable manner with the remission of the sentences of the Montie 3,” he said in Facebook post moments after the president announcement. Subsequent to their conviction and sentencing, their lawyers petitioned the President to invoke his powers under Article 72 to grant the three presidential pardon. Supreme court’s ‘tyranny’ arrestedMeanwhile, US-based law lecturer, Stephen Kwaku Asare, who condemned the Supreme Court for its approach in the matter, has welcomed the President’s action. “I fully welcome it and congratulate the President for arresting the Supreme Court’s tyranny,” he said in a Facebook post a while ago.

Source: GhanaWeb August 22, 2016 19:30 UTC