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 remain clear and present danger to the Ghanaian Judiciary and democracy.
According to him, former president Mahama and his enablers have not changed one bit. 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 they welcome on everyday public conversations.
He said Mr Dramani want to sabotage the state by packing the judiciary with partisan ideologues. “He is simply telling us that if he wins the presidency, he will supervised 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.”
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 weary of Mahama and his silly little idealistic weirdos who want to turn this country into 21st Century Communist State,” he stressed.
Adding that “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.”
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, he said he was actually making a mockery of the bench and to a large extent allowing excessive partisanship to take better part of his politics
Essentially, the 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 focussed 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.
Report By Bernard K DADZIE