President Akufo-Addo has described as dangerous the comments by John Mahama suggesting the next NDC government will balance out the Justices on the Supreme Court.
Previously, the former president John Mahama claimed that the Akufo-Addo government has crowded Ghana’s courts in order to avoid facing consequences after taking office.
Mr. Mahama revealed that some of the lawyers President Akufo-Addo has passed up on the bench during the closing remarks of the third lawyers conference, which was held at Akosombo in the Eastern region and was organized by the NDC Lawyers Association.
According to President Akufo-Addo, Mahama’s comments “represent a brazen attack on the independence of the Judiciary by any alleged responsible politician of the 4th Republic.”
“Not only are they concepts of “NPP” and “NDC” Judges new in our public discourse; but they are also extremely dangerous, and represent a brazen attack on the independence of the Judiciary by any alleged responsible politician of the 4th Republic,” he said.
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In a related news, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lawyers appointed to the bench by former president John Mahama, according to the Center for Democratic Development (CDD), are a threat to Ghana’s democracy.
The former President’s comments, according to Paul Aborampah Mensah, Senior Programs Officer at CDD-Ghana, who was a guest on Morning Starr with Francis Abban on Monday, September 4, 2023, won’t help the constitutional system.
“It is a dim to Ghana’s democracy, it is a dim for our fight for equality of law under our constitutional regime. It is dim for justice for all. If I hear politicians and especially people who have held the highest position on our land saying this. Then probably they are trying to tell us the experiences they’ve had and probably the kind of structures they had when they were in office,” Mr. Aborampah Mensah stated.
