Justice Paul Uuter Dery has filed a petition with the Criminal
Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service over what he deems
to be a death threat issued at him.
Justice Dery, in a letter to the Director-General of the CID dated
Tuesday February 16, said: “On 15th February 2016, I saw and read a
publication in the Daily Graphic at page 42, where one Cephas Kumah
posted a statement on the 9th February, 2016 on the Facebook page of
Daily Graphic with my photograph shown therein. The statement is titled
as follows: ‘Justice Dery Petitions President over True Identity of
Tiger Eye PI’.
“The body of the statement is that: ‘This man’s intransigence is making
some of us revise our note on Amartey Kwei and co’s killing of the three
high court judges and the retired army officer. For how long will this
legal gymnastics last?
“Respectfully I feel threatened by the above statement of Cephas Kumah. I
am, therefore, requesting that you use your esteemed office to cause
investigations to be conducted into his threat. I hope and pray that you
will expeditiously act on this petition as I fear for my life.”
Justice Dery is one of 34 judges caught on camera allegedly taking bribe
to warp justice. The Chief Justice, on the orders of the President, has
started investigations and removal procedures against him and 11 other
high court judges who were among the 34. Already 22 judges have been
removed from the judiciary as a result of the two-year investigative
piece done by undercover journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye
PI team. Justice Dery has also petitioned the president over what he
described as the “problematic” identity of Tiger Eye PI.
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