The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has come under fire from Oliver Barker-Vormawor, the founder of the pressure group #FixTheCountry, for giving President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo access to its platform for political campaigning.
The GBA Executives, he claimed, ought to be ashamed of themselves.
Vormawor claimed in a Facebook post that the Executives have damaged the GBA’s already-cloudy reputation.
Nana Addo revealed that John Mahama, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate, loses the general election of 2024 in a speech on Monday, September 11, 2023, at the 2023 Ghana Bar Association Conference held at the University of Cape Coast.
Mahama is not the best leader for Ghana, he claimed.
He claimed that Mahama’s recent tirade against the judiciary was harmful to the nation’s democracy.
He added that it was an egregious assault on Ghana’s judicial system to refer to judges as NPP and NDC.
At a meeting with NDC lawyers, John Mahama accused President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of putting a lot of New Patriotic Party (NPP) judges on the bench.
On Saturday, September 2, 2023, during the closing ceremony of the third annual lawyers conference of the NDC, claimed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had purposefully appointed the most judges to the bench in order to have people who would obey his orders after he left office and urged NDC members to “balance out” the bench.
Meanwhile, the government’s recently announced increase in the farm-gate price of cocoa has been criticized by the leader of the National Democratic Congress, John Mahama, as a ripoff of the labor-intensive cocoa farmers and their families, who continue to support their nation’s economy.
Mahama argued in a Facebook post that the government should have given cocoa farmers a more equitable share of the international FOB price given that the price of cocoa reached a 46-year high of $3,600.
He expressed dissatisfaction that the government had decided to give farmers just GH 1,308 per bag, or just 52.7% of the FOB price on the market abroad.
