Former President John Mahama has been scolded for suggesting that the Chief Justice must be changed because of the "deteriorating" image of the judiciary.
Mahama addressing the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Lawyers’ Conference said the current leadership of the Judiciary lacks the qualities to redeem its sunken image.
“So badly has the image of our Judiciary deteriorated that many of our citizenry openly make mockery of our justice system and of our justices. The phrase ‘Go to Court’ is these days met with derisive laughter, instead of hope that one will truly get justice”.
“There is, therefore, the urgent need for the Ghanaian Judiciary to work to win the trust and confidence of the citizenry, and erase the widely held perception of hostility and political bias in legal proceedings at the highest courts of the land”.
“Unfortunately, we have no hope that the current leadership of our Judiciary can lead such a process of change. We can only hope, that a new Chief Justice will lead the process to repair the broken image that our Judiciary has acquired over the last few years,” he added.
However, the Member of Parliament for Oda constituency, Alexander Akwasi Acquah believes such comments are not befitting of a former President.
"I believe we should protect our judiciary . . . I don't think we can get an angel as our Chief Justice for a perfect judiciary. We all know what happened under Mahama as far as the judiciary is concerned, but he should tone down on some of these comments. He's a statesman and I believe he can do better," he stated while contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo'.
Listen to him in the video below
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Save your breath Akwasi on the former President. The irony is that he was speaking at a despicable, divisive and an irregular function called an NDC Lawyers conference. Some of these lawyers would want to progress in life to become judges and even to be appointed into the High, Appeal and Supreme Courts and what would they be called. Someone should keep the participants list of the conference for posterity. Shamelessly, it's only the NDC in Ghana that would organize such a conference. A desperate bunch of people and not surprisingly having a desperado to speak against the Judiciary in front of these so called lawyers of the NDC. It's pathetic how politics can reduce people to these. Mahama must be carefully watched as his utterances is divisive and denigrating of key institutions and individuals of our society.