A lawmaker for Ghana’s opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Muntaka Mubarak, has rendered an unqualified apology for falsely alleging that a Supreme Court Justice made attempts to bribe a female Member of Parliament (MP) of the NDC.
Mr Mubarak, MP for Asawase in the Ashanti Region, made the unsubstantiated claim in January 2021, saying a Justice of the Supreme Court attempted to bribe the unnamed NDC MP to vote for Prof. Mike Ocquay as Speaker of the 8th Parliament of Ghana instead of the NDC’s nominee, Alban Bagbin.
But in his apology and retraction letter to the Supreme Court of Ghana, he claimed he got the information from a “trusted colleague”.
“Admittedly, because I did not specifically name any judge, this may have had the effect of scandalizing the Judiciary in its entirety, this unintended consequence is deeply regretted,” he wrote.
“I therefore, wish to respectfully retract same and apologise for the harm done to the image and reputation of my Lord Justices of the Supreme Court and the Judiciary as a whole”, the MP noted in a release.
“It is my fervent prayer that the existing historic cordial relations between the Legislature and the Judiciary will not be affected by this incident but will continue to grow in the interest of the country”, according to him.
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