Ken Kuranchie
Volta regional Executives of the main opposition New Patriotic Party have visited convicted Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Searchlight Newspaper, Ken Kuranchie at the Ho Central Prisons.
Mr. Kuranchie was moved from the Nsawam medium prisons to Ho Central at dawn on Wednesday.
His movement sparked concerns among some members of the NPP, including Nsawam Adoagyir Member of Parliament, Annor Dompreh who told XYZ News? Parliamentary Correspondent Ibrahim Alhassan that security officers picked up Ken Kuranchie at 3am from the Nsawam Medium security prison to an unknown place.
?Ken Kuranchie was brought there (Nsawam) yesterday but this dawn at 3am, they took him to a place [that] no one knows?, he claimed.
He appealed to the Prisons and Police Authorities to inform Ken Kuranchie?s family of his whereabouts even if they chose to withhold that information from the rest of the country.
It is not clear why Mr. Ken Kuranchie was moved from Nsawam to the Ho Central facility.
Mr. Kuranchie was sentenced to a 10-day prison term by the Supreme Court on Tuesday over a front page publication by his newspaper which questioned the basis of the Court?s invitation of Deputy Communication Director of the main opposition New Patriotic Party, Sammy Awuku, for describing the Bench as ?hypocritical and selective?.
Another Contemnor, Stephen Atubiga was also sentenced to 3 days in prison for vowing on radio that President John Mahama and the governing National Democratic Congress will not hand over power even if the Court ordered so at the end of the election petition hearing.
Atubiga displayed abject remorse when he appeared before the Court.
Ken Kuranchie on the other hand attempted explaining himself to the Court and ended up engaging the bench in a back-and-forth argument.
He also repeatedly gave conditional apologies despite promptings by the Court to either render an unqualified and unreserved apology or stand his ground that he was right and the Court was wrong.
His posture was perceived as belligerent and unremorseful by the Court thus his harsher sentence.
Source-RadioXYZ
