Mad rush for Anas video
They are supposed to be custodians of the rule of law and serve as a bulwark against dictatorship and give justice to the afflicted, cheated and robbed.
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But that was not what was witnessed in a video shown at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC) yesterday in which bare-chested and casually dressed judges and magistrates were seen allegedly negotiating various sums of money to tilt the scales of justice.
Hundreds of viewers who trooped to the AICC to watch the much-talked about Anas video were stunned to find court clerks and judges taking money to compromise cases.
The amounts ranged from GH¢10 to GH¢4,000 for court clerks, while the implicated judges took between GHc500 and GHc30,000.
Thirty-four judges and magistrates were caught on a secret camera receiving money, goats, sheep and foodstuffs in their chambers and homes.
As a result, robbers, murderers, narcotic suspects, rapists and litigants in land cases got what they wanted o