The Dean of GIMPA Law School, Ernest Kofi Abotsi, is in support of the broadcasting of a damming video showing some judges taking bribes.

“It is negative if it is not aired,” Kofi Abotsi said on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Monday. He believes that if the video is kept from the public view, it could magnify the perception of corruption in the judiciary.

“They might think the problem is bigger”, he said.

Public confidence in the judiciary is suffering a battering after Anas Aremeyaw Anas’s investigation exposed some 34 judges allegedly collecting bribes.

There has been intense public pressure to broadcast the video and a premiere is scheduled for 22 September 2015 at the Accra International Conference Center.

Kofi Abosti believes that the revelations from the video cannot be “any bigger than the corruption mentality out there”.

He described corruption in the judiciary as “obviously a major social canker.”

Nonetheless the Havard-educated lawyer wants the media to be careful “not to stampede” the judiciary into making judgments to satisfy public outcry for retribution.

Kofi Abotsi fears that too much public pressure might compromise the investigations.

Ghana has a “good judiciary manned by some bad judges and by logic some good judges” he assessed and asked Ghanaians not to bastardise the judiciary as an institution because of the actions of some judges.

He commended the Judicial Council for being “cool headed” since the scandal broke last week Wednesday.

The Council has moved to suspend 22 magistrates and circuit court judges. A five-member committee has also been set up to discipline those found culpable.