Mr. Peter Ababio

The regional president of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Mr Peter Ababio also underscored the importance of radio, which he said reaches every nook and crane of the country, for national development.

He observed that radio is a unique tool especially in the country as there are broadcasts in the various local languages and which he said enhances people's awareness of national issues.He however cautioned that since the listening public is swayed by what they hear, there is the need to ensure that all radio programmes impact positively on the lives of the people."We all yearn to have programmes that will portray Ghana as a united nation.Anything that smacks of ethnicity must be discarded", he emphasised.

Mr Ababio, bemoaned the current spate of crime wave in the country, especially those perpetuated by the youth and said the radio could be used to stem this tide of indiscipline, if "well thought-out and designed programmes are aired.

He stressed on the benefits of press freedom, but echoed calls on the media to be circumspect in their reportage, and in the broadcast of programmes, particularly during the forthcoming elections and not to let their political interests override the ethics of their profession.

Pay compensation for murdered judges - Ababio

Cape Coast (Central Region) - 5 July 2006 - The president of the Central Regional Bar Association, Peter Ababio, has asked the government to implement the recommendations of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) and also pay due compensation to the families of the three High Court Judges and an army officer abducted from their homes and murdered on June 30, 1982 in the wake of the 31st December 1981 Revolution.
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Mr. Ababio made the appeal on Friday at a Remembrance Church Service at the Cape Coast Methodist Cathedral to mark the 24th anniversary of the murders.

The church service was attended by judges, lawyers, and judicial staff in Cape Coast.

Mr. Ababio said, "by those commemorative events, the Ghana Bar Association wishes to leave no one in any doubt that, it will forever commend and hold in high esteem, judicial courage, honesty, fairness, impartiality, and the total commitment of all judges to their judicial oath and of all Ghanaians to the rule of law.

"Without these, no nation can know real peace, harmony, happiness and development."

Mr. Ababio recalled how the news of the murders was broadcast by Radio Ghana, and how officialdom at that time feigned complete ignorance of what had happened to the judges and the soldier and shed "crocodile tears".

He said even though the perpetrators were eventually tried and executed, one of them, Cpl.