A former President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Sam Okudjeto has said critics of Association’s suit challenging the President’s recent appointment to the Supreme Court do not understand the essence of the legal system.
According to him, persons who are condemning the GBA for heading to the Supreme Court do not “understand that the courts are there in order to enhance and stabilize the system in that country.”
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) and three others have filed a suit at the Supreme Court praying the court to nullify the appointment of Justice Yaw Apau and Gabriel Pwamang as the apex court’s Justices.
[contextly_sidebar id=”Be8Cn9qLZ6XAr73awUpZvgZ0xpw8VfNK”]They are of the view that the processes the President used in the appointment of the two Justices were “unconstitutional.”
Expressing his views on the suit, Communications Minister, Dr. Edward Omane Boamah in a radio interview described the suit as “preposterous and absurd.”
He insisted that the appointment of the two to the apex court followed due processes.
In an interview with Citi News however, the experienced lawyer indicated that the suit has the tendency to change the nation’s governance and ensure stability.
He criticized the practice where persons in government positions take arbitrary decisions without adhering to existing rules.
“One person in power or a couple of people in power think that because they are in power, they can do anything or say anything. I have seen it in all these years of practicing the law… They don’t look at it and the ramifications of it, the consequences of it; they don’t look at it from that angle,” he remarked.
He revealed that the same politicians who make ill-advised decisions when in power “rush to us the lawyers to come and do this and that for them when they leave office.”
“When they are in office, they take a different stand. This is the whole contradiction I have been seeing all these years,” Sam Okudzeto complained.
He served notice that persons working within the judicial system will “not just sit down and be sober. If the matter is in court, whether it is purposeless or useless, let it be determined.”
By: Efua Idan Osam/citifmonline.com/Ghana
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