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Atik Mohammed has slammed the President of the Bono Regional House of Chiefs and the Omanhene of the Dormaa Traditional Area, Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II who is also a sitting High Court Judge, known in judicial practice as His Lordship Justice Daniel Mensah over his comment for discontinuance of the criminal trial of James Gyakye Quayson, the Member of Parliament for Assin North.

Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II, addressing a gathering at the 10th-anniversary lecture of John Evans Atta Mills in Sunyani, appealed to the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, to intervene in the prosecution of the Assin North MP.

He insisted that the President should take steps to halt the trial saying "honestly, I don’t see the benefits this prosecution will bring Ghanaians. If he is in court, he can’t fulfil his mandate so the president and the Attorney General should do something urgently to end this matter, so we move on as Ghanaians".

He charged the President to, as a matter of urgency, abort the criminal case.

“As a matter of urgency, I am appealing to the President of the Republic, Attorney General if he has any role to play, that trial should be aborted. The Attorney General should as a matter of urgency file a nolle prosequi to end that particular decision.”

But to Atik Mohammed, it is inappropriate for Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II being a sitting Justice to publicly make statements of this sort.

The former PNC General Secretary questioned the objectivity of Osagyefo Oseadeeyo Agyemang Badu II  if he were to be the judge hearing the case.

To him, it is utterly wrong for the Dormahene to have directly concerned himself with the trial.

"As a judge, even if you have such views, I think they should be privately shared and even so I don't really support the idea that you should be sharing your views on things like these but if you feel strongly, these are views that should be shared privately. But to say it publicly as a judge, I think it is disturbing," Atik told host Nana Yaw Kesseh on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo' morning show.