Politics of Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Source: www.ghanaweb.live
2022-09-13Judiciary traditionally serves as a ‘defensive wall’ for NPP - Kwakye Ofosu asserts
Felix Kwakye Ofosu is aide to Former President Mahama
Felix Kwakye Ofosu, an aide to former President John Dramani Mahama, has observed that the judiciary has demonstrated unfriendliness towards the opposition National Democratic Congress over the years.
In his view, the judiciary has always served as the New Patriotic Party’s defensive wall suggesting that the NPP always benefits from the court
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Kwakye Ofosu in a Facebook post on September 12 indicated that the NDC will not be mute on the varied treatment both parties receive from the judiciary.
He mentioned that the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, and the governing New Patriotic Party have not been complaining about the judiciary’s treatment because they are direct beneficiaries.
Kwakye Ofosu was was reacting to the Attorney General’s reproach of Mahama's perceived attack on the Supreme Court and the judiciary at large.
“Ghana’s Judiciary has been set up for many years to display hostility towards the NDC and serve as a bulwark for the NPP. The notion that we in the NDC will keep quiet over this and pretend that all is well is an absurd fantasy and those who hold that view must get real and leave their delusional bubble.
“Nobody is fooled by the pretense and if increasingly the Judiciary has come under public condemnation and criticism, they should look within and carry out the needed reforms and stop thinking we can be intimidated into accepting such a lopesided system. We will not be silenced and told not to cry after we have been punched in the gut. Godfred Dame and his NPP lot profit from the Judicial imbalance and that is why he has developed the callous mindset that we are to accept this ill treatment without complaint,” Felix Kwakye Ofosu wrote on his Facebook page.
Attorney General Godfred Dame speaking at 2022/2023 Ghana Bar Association Annual General Conference in Ho took a swipe at John Mahama in what he described as the latter’s “systematic and caustic” attacks on the courts.
Mahama it will be recalled said Ghanaians were fast losing trust in the judiciary owing to some of its unanimous decisions – a situation he explains as dangerous to the country’s democracy.
He stated that it will only take a new Chief Justice to chart a path of regaining public trust in the judiciary.
“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 a process to repair the broken image that our judiciary has acquired over the last few years,” Mahama said at a forum held for lawyers of the NDC on August 28.
Godfred Dame describes the comments by Mahama as deplorable, coming from someone who has been a former president.
Read Below The Full Facebook post by Felix Kwakye Ofosu
Ghana’s Judiciary has been set up for many years to display hostility towards the NDC and serve as a bulwark for the NPP.
The notion that we in the NDC will keep quiet over this and pretend that all is well is an absurd fantasy and those who hold that view must get real and leave their delusional bubble.
Nobody is fooled by the pretense and if increasingly the Judiciary has come under public condemnation and criticism,they should look within and carry out the needed reforms and stop thinking we can be intimidated into accepting such a lopesided system.
We will not be silenced and told not to cry after we have been punched in the gut.
Godfred Dame and his NPP lot profit from the Judicial imbalance and that is why he has developed the callous mindset that we are to accept this ill treatment without complaint.
The Ghana Bar Association itself is but a pitiful NPP support group that lost its luster and moral authority a long time ago.Using their platform to launch partisan attacks on critics of the judiciary including President Mahama only affirms this.
A serious grouping would be discussing Judicial reforms and would not be giving approbation to the historical hostility towards one side of the political divide.
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