Foreign Minister Mohammed Mumuni has dismissed reports that seven Ghanaians on death row in Libya will be hanged Friday. The Daily Guide News Paper in its Thursday June 2, 2010 edition reported that 20 Ghanaians were hanged on the 31st May with seven more to be hanged tomorrow for various crimes committed. But the Foreign Minister told Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Host Kojo Oppong Nkrumah on Thursday the report is not accurate. “This story is absolutely untrue; there is not an iota of truth in it,” he emphasized. He admitted though that six Ghanaians were on death row in Libya but could not tell when they will be hanged. “No information has come about when the death sentences will be carried out,” he said, adding he would be informed by the Ghanaian diplomatic mission stationed in Libya if it were true that the six will be hanged tomorrow. He also described as questionable reports of unjust trial and mistreatment of Ghanaians in Libya, adding “the judicial standard in Libya is fair across board. That is the system they use to try Libyans as well.” Mohammed Mumuni maintained that most of the reports of unfair trial from the convicts in Libya were to elicit public sympathies and to pressurise the Ghana government to come to their rescue. He sympathized with the plight of the convicts, but stressed that whilst the Ghana government make strenuous effort to intervene on their behalf, the Libya judicial system must also be respected. But the editor of the Daily Guide Newspaper Fortune Alimi told Kojo Oppong Nkrumah the report was to draw government’s attention to the plight of the convicts who will be hanged. He said he received distressed messages from one of the victims Kofi Nti who is to be hanged in Libya. Conscious of the role played by the Vice President John Mahama in lobbying the Libyan government to reduce the death sentence of a convict to life imprisonment, Mr Alimi said the government can do same for this group of convicts who will be hanged if the government of Ghana fails to intervene. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana