The founder of the Diaspora Progressive Movement in the USA, Dr. Lawrence Appiah, has disclosed that Ghanaians are losing confidence and hope in the ability of the court to administer justice in the country.
He accused the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government of appointing cronies to the judiciary.
In a statement signed by Dr. Lawrence, he indicated that, in Ghana, the judiciary is gradually becoming a thin god, allowing them to pass some outrageous judgement.
He argued that some of the judgements passed by some notable courts in the country need much to be desired.
By citing worse instances, he said ”In Ghana today, the birth certificate is not a legal document to prove that someone is a Ghanaian. Meanwhile, the birth certificate is the base document used to prepare a Ghanaian passport, which is used to travel all the world.”
He stressed that the judiciary is packed with NPP-inclined judges because this government has carried out a deliberate policy of putting their people onto the bench to frustrate Ghanaians.
He further said it will take a new leader like John Mahama in the next NDC administration to lead the process to repair what he described as “badly dented image” of Ghana’s judiciary for people to win the trust in the system.
In his opinion, the deteriorated image of the judiciary easily sparks laughter from the citizenry when one decides to go to the court for justice, adding that it is of the scariest existential threats to any democracy is when citizens think their judiciary holds no value for them or no use to them, and this is the security threat that the National Security apparatus tried to draw the attention of the nation to recently but was poorly received by the president.
He added that such lawlessness in the country threatens the peace and stability of Ghana’s democracy and must be quickly corrected become If pragmatic measures are not taken, it will get to a stage where people will have no qualms about taking the law into their own hands because they do not have the confidence that they can get any justice in the system
Story by Lawrence Odoom