They were guilty for scandalising the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court and bringing it into disrepute by the court presided over by Justice Sophia Akuffo.

The accused were found guilty for scandalising the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court and bringing it into disrepute by the court presided over by Justice Sophia Akuffo.

The three contemnors and the owners of Montie FM will today be sentenced by the Supreme Court. The three are Godwin Ako Gunn and Alistair Nelson, who were panellists on a show, and talk show host Mugabe.

Lawyers for the three, however, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.

Meanwhile, one of the Montie FM panellists blamed his comments in which he and another panellist threatened to kill the judges to a disease called “kpokpogbligbli.”

According to Alistair Nelson, “kpokpogbligbli is an unknown disease that takes over a person’s body and controls what he says and does."

He said this when he appeared before the Supreme Court to explain why he and others should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalising the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”

The Supreme Court also played in open court, audiotapes which contained alleged threats issued by two radio pundits despite pleas from the counsel of the alleged contemnors for it not to be played.

The two panellists, Nelson and Gunn told the court they were responsible for the comments and expressed regret.

The host of the said programme, Mugabe, even though admitting that he was liable to the offence, said that he could give reasons for his conduct.

The court in a letter last Thursday, asked the owners to explain why they should not be “committed to prison for contempt of court, for scandalising the court, defying and lowering the authority of the court, and bringing the authority of the court into disrepute.”

According to them, they did so because their names were specifically mentioned in the comments of the three people facing the contempt charges.

The Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, and another judge of the Supreme Court, Sulley Gbadegbe stepped down from the panel hearing the contempt case against owners of Accra-based Montie FM, the host of the station’s ‘Pampaso’ programme, and the two panelists, who threatened to kill judges over their handling of the Abu Ramadan suit on the credibility of the voters’ register.