We didn’t try to influence judge’s decision – Talensi Traditional Council

The Talensi Traditional Council (TTC) in the Upper East Region has refuted allegations of any influence or entrapment of the Bolgatanga High Court judge, His Lordship Justice Alexander Graham in the discharge of his duties.

The Talensi Traditional Council has been accused of trying to compel the judge to compromise in a case currently before him regarding a land dispute.

After the meeting, the judge claimed the invite amounted to an influence and attempt to entrap him and thus charged and convicted two members of the council who delivered the invite for contempt and ordered them to sign a bond of good conduct for six months.

But in a press statement, the Talensi Traditional Council debunked the assertions by the judge.

The council maintained that, it has over the period collaborated with the courts to amicably resolved land litigation issues and that the invite was just part of such collaborations with the court to resolve worrying land litigation issues in the town and not an attempt to influence justice delivery.

“The council did not send the two members to go and influence His Lordship Alexander Graham in any matter whatsoever

“The two members did not go to the court to entrap the judge nor influence his decision on cases pending before him since neither the council as a body nor the Tongraan Kulgbilsong Nanlebgtang, its President is a party to any land case pending in the high court or any other court in the region”.