Mahama wants more NDC judges on the bench to ‘balance out’ Akufo-Addo’s 100 NPP judges
President Nana Akufo-Addo has packed the courts with dozens of pro-New Patriotic Party judges so as to avoid accountability after he exits office, former President John Mahama has alleged.
Addressing the closing ceremony of the 3rd Annual Lawyers Conference of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on Saturday, 2 September 2023, Mr. Mahama said: “Currently, the judiciary is packed with NPP-inclined judges because this government has carried out a deliberate policy of putting their people onto the bench”.
“He [Akufo-Addo] has appointed the biggest number of judges onto the bench, it is more than 80 towards 100 and counting”, the flagbearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress said.
Mr Mahama added: “You can see what the current president has done”.
“He has packed the court, and we know they have packed the court because they want to avoid accountability after they have left office”, he said.
Mr Mahama, thus, urged NDC legal practitioners to aim at serving on the bench to balance the political scale of the judiciary.
“So, I encourage some of you to look at careers on the bench so that we can balance out what the current situation is”, he said, adding: “We must be prepared as NDC legal persons to also go onto the bench so that we can balance out the judiciary”.
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