It is sad that public commentary on public interest cases has taken on political colorations – GBA President

Yaw Acheampong Boafo, the president of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), has demanded an end to the politicization of the country’s legal system.

His comments coincide with the nation’s growing political analysis of prominent legal decisions.

On Sunday, June 30, at the Martyrs of the Rule of Law Remembrance Service at the Cavalry Baptist Church in Accra, Mr. Boafo bemoaned the contemporary practice of viewing judicial issues from a political perspective.

“We must spare the judiciary our divisive partisanship. It is sad that public commentary relative to cases of public interest pending in court has taken on political colouration,” he said on Sunday.

Mr Boafo reiterated a point he made at the 2023 Annual General Conference of the Ghana Bar Association, emphasising that the judiciary operates independently of political affiliations.

“There is no training module at the judicial training school known as NPP judge, NDC judge, CPP judge for anyone to tag a judge as NPP, NDC, and CPP. There is only one judiciary established in Chapter 11 of the 1992 Constitution,” he stated emphatically.

“I want to place on record that at no stage of the interview and evaluation courses of an appointment to any level of the judiciary is the political affiliation or leanings of an applicant a requirement.”

The three judges who were assassinated in 1982 for upholding the rule of law were remembered for their sacrifices during the memorial service.

In order to avoid “lead to the martyrdom of any judge,” Mr. Boafo asked those who give justices political colors to stop doing so.

Source: Ghanatodayonline.com