The convener of the #FixTheCountry movement, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, claims that some of the Supreme Court’s newly appointed judges only serve there to secure their retirement plans and do not perform to expectations.
He claims that the judges of the highest court in the land are the supreme authorities in law and should conduct in-depth analyses and judgments on cases that are presented to them, but this has not always been the case.
He believes that the judges’ routine unanimity in ruling on the majority of cases in recent years reeks of laziness and is evidence that some of them prioritize their pay and retirement benefits over the actual work for which they are being paid handsomely.
“You cannot be an Article 71 office Holder; receive a golden handshake of over 2 million cedis when you retire; continue to retire on your existing salary; then choose to be lazy when it’s time to work,” Barker-Vormawor wrote on his Facebook page on Tuesday, June 6, 2023.
“Our Supreme Court’s unanimous decisions are routine and thus products of reckless laziness; not conviction.
This is what happens when people go to the Supreme Court to secure their retirement plans because SSNIT doesn’t pay.
“In all self-respecting democracies, unanimous decisions by the highest Court of the land are exceptional not the default. Unanimous decisions are rare and are intended to carry moral weight in critical and important cases such as Brown vrs Board of Education. Routine Unanimity impoverishes the law. Doesn’t enhance it!”
Under the leadership of the recently retired Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the Supreme Court has come under fire for a number of decisions that some Ghanaians and legal experts did not agree with.
The moniker “Unanimous FC” came about because some of those decisions were routine and unanimous.
