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President John Dramani Mahama came nether aggravated scrutiny by a conception of the nationalist aft his information of 7 justices to the apex tribunal of the onshore - the Supreme Court.
Many of these critics accused the president of hypocrisy, arguing that his nominations contradict his ain pronouncements connected capping the fig of justices astatine the Supreme Court.
These critics person referred to Mahama’s remarks astatine a run lawsuit earlier the 2024 wide election, wherever helium lambasted Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo for nominating immoderate justices for assignment to the Supreme Court by then-President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
A video clip from the lawsuit showed Mahama raising superior concerns astir the effort to name much justices to the highest tribunal of the land, arsenic good arsenic the process procedure being used.
He besides stated that the Constitutional Review Committee, instituted by the precocious erstwhile President Prof John Evans Atta Mills, recommended that the fig of Supreme Court judges should not transcend 15.
He added that it is for the radical of Ghana to determine however galore justices the tribunal should have, vowing to enactment connected the committee's recommendation.
“... adjacent the contented of capping the fig of judges. The Constitutional Review Committee recommended that we headdress Supreme Court judges astatine 15. And truthful the contented of capping the Supreme Court is not for the Chief Justice to say. We volition resurrect the law reappraisal process erstwhile I go president.
“And erstwhile we bash that, we volition enactment it to the Ghanaian radical whether we should clasp the 15, whether we should trim it, oregon whether we should summation it,” Mahama said.
He further stated that it should beryllium the Chief Justice who recommends the assignment of Supreme Court justices to the president.
Watch Mahama’s remarks successful the video below:
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