
There were fireworks yesterday at the
Chief Justice ’s committee investigating
the judicial service staff implicated in
the Anas Aremeyaw Anas bribery and
corruption scandal when a lawyer
requested that Anas be unmasked.
Sources say Egbert Faibille Jnr , lawyer
for Gabriel Achana , one of the clerks
indicted in the scandal, had asked the
two other hooded men who usually
accompanied Anas to the committee to
go out and leave the ‘ real Anas ’ behind .
This, the lawyer argued , was to enable
the investigative journalist to unmask
for the much anticipated cross -
examination .
This follows the watching of the video by
the said court clerks, most of whom are
expected before the committee chaired
by Avril Lovelace Johnson , a justice of
the Court of Appeal.
Intervention
But DAILY GUIDE source stated that the
committee held that the two other
hooded men were also representatives
of Tiger Eye PI and could not excuse the
committee in that regard.
The committee further contended that
Anas could not be unmasked because
he was protected under the
Whistleblowers’ Act and was also
covered by immunity.
Walk - Out
Probably incensed by the position of the
committee , Mr Faibille walked out of the
committee sitting with his client .
Mr Faibille is , however , said to be
heading to an Accra high court to seek
an order to compel the undercover
investigative journalist to reveal his real
identity .
Over 180 staff of the judicial service
were allegedly caught on camera taking
bribes and demanding sex to influence
judgments or acting as middlemen for
some judges .
Some of them are said to be so well
connected that one cannot see a judge
without going through them .
Other members of the panel are Derrick
Annan ; John Bannerman, Chief
Registrar of Courts ; Nana Opoku
Asumani , Secretary; Patricia Quansah, a
Circuit Court Judge and Frederick
Baidoo , Deputy Director of Human
Resource of the Judicial Service .
Judicial Scandal
Anas ’ private investigative company ,
Tiger Eye PI, conducted a two - year
investigation which produced a 500-
hour video depicting 34 judges and
magistrates , more than 100 court clerks ,
seven policemen, five state attorneys
and bail contractors engaging in bribery
and extortion .
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