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A Deputy Information and Media Relations Minister has said the proceedings at the Supreme Court last Wednesday in which two NPP stalwarts were subjected to fines and humiliation left a sour taste in his mouth. In the view of Felix Kwakye Ofosu, "there are many who have said Sir John [Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie] thoroughly deserves his fate given his own penchant for reckless and irresponsible behaviour ever since he assumed the position of the General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party". But "anybody who watched proceedings last Wednesday as far as Sir John and Hopeson Adorye were concerned would have been left with a very sour taste in his mouth" the Deputy Information Minister noted. Speaking on Radio Gold's Alhaji and Alhaji current affairs programme on Saturday, the Deputy Minister also commended Justice William Atuguba, President of the panel of Judges hearing the 2012 Presidential election petition, for expressing "righteous indignation" at the utterances of the two NPP stalwarts. "He also criticised the general conduct of politicians in our society, [and] pointed that there are those who have totally ignored the authority of the state and have sought to impose their own will on Ghanaians and in the process held various state institutions and Ghanaian populace hostage", Kwakye-Ofosu said of Justice Atuguba - lauding his approach to the issue. The Deputy Minister further lauded comments by Justice Jones Victor Mawulorm Dotse, one of the panel of nine Judges, for rebuking the NPP leadership for not condemning the two contemnors when the issue came up. "For me that [Justice Dotse's criticism of the NPP leadership] was the crowning moment of the entire proceedings because it went to the heart of the matter", he noted.