Editorial News of Tuesday, 27 February 2001

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Send them to court - Prof. Hagan

Professor George Hagan, the Presidential candidate for the Convention People's Party (CPP) in the December elections has said that anybody who feels he or she was unjustly treated during the regime of the former President, Jerry John Rawlings, could channel whatever grievances to the quarters of the Attorney-General's Department for attention.

"If you are put before court and you are able to defend yourself, fair enough, but if you are found guilty, then you have to face the wrath of the law," he said in an interview with 'The Evening News' on his reaction to President Kufuor's statement in his Sessional Address to Parliament that those who have wronged the society would be brought to book.

He said if a person seized power for over 20 years and meted out injustice to fellow human beings, the time is due for those who want to pursue justice to do so within the ambience of the law.

He asserted that during the over 20 years reign of the former President, some responsible citizens lost their parents in cold blood and that the law should take its full course to redress the situation.

The action being taken by President Kufuor, he said, was not witch hunting, explaining that witch hunting is when people start to point fingers at NDC functionaries with the intention of lynching them.