Report by Bernard K DADZIE
The Deputy Director of Communications in the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah has hinted that the former president John Dramani Mahama remains a clear and present danger to the Ghanaian Judiciary and democracy.
According to him, former president Mahama and his enablers have not changed one bit. He stated that if given the chance, however, they will roll back decades of progress made on diversity in our judicial system and it’s reflective of the kinds of limited perspectives and experiences Mahama posits on everyday public conversations.
He said Mr Dramani wants to sabotage the State by packing the judiciary with partisan ideologues.
“He is simply telling us that if he wins the presidency, he will supervise yet another dose of NDC’s state-sanctioned violence against the Judiciary. All of this so Mahama can rush his cruel agenda through the courts by installing extreme and biased judges,” Owusu Bempah stated.
According to Owusu Bempah, it is truly beyond comprehension that the NDC is so poorly led that Mahama is able to get away with such loose talks and disrespect for our institutions of democracy.
“We have to stop these group of ideologues who obviously have nothing to offer this country. Ghanaians must be wary of Mahama and his silly little idealistic weirdos who want to turn this country into a 21st Century Communist State,” he stressed.
He added, “Mahama may be oblivious of this but it might interest him to know that, we don’t have Rawlings judges or Kufuor judges, Mills judges or Akufo-Addo judges. What we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them.”
He stated that when former president John Mahama stood at a forum organized by NDC sympathetic lawyers and called on his partisan falcons to balance the judiciary by taking up opportunities to join the bench, Mahama was actually making a mockery of the Bench and to a large extent allowing excessive partisanship to take better part of his politics.
Mr Mahama claimed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has deliberately appointed the most judges to the Bench in order to have people who will do his bidding when he is out of office.
The NDC flagbearer said the move by the President is an attempt to avoid being held accountable when he leaves office.
According to Owusu Bempah, former president was unleashing a disproportionately NDC group of ideologues, many of whom are manifestly unqualified to practice as lifelong lawyers and to uphold the principle of equal justice under law on to the judiciary.
“Let Mahama get it that, if you are always carping incessantly about everything, you lose even more relevance than if you had focused on the real key issues. We have fought far too long and far too hard for our civil and human rights. We have to make sure our courts reflect the people they are supposed to serve. Not Mahama, not NDC but justice for all of us,” he added.
