GBA only finds its voice under NDC – Justice Atubiga fires

Former Supreme Court judge, Justice William Atubiga, has slammed the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) implicit its posturing connected nationalist issues.

Speaking successful an interrogation connected JoyNews' The Pulse, aired connected May 8, 2025, the retired Supreme Court justice asserted that the posturing of the GBA shows a inclination of it speaking connected nationalist issues lone erstwhile the National Democratic Congress (NDC) is successful power.

He added that since the epoch of erstwhile President John Agyekum Kufuor, the Bar Association, which utilized to beryllium precise powerful, began to suffer its voice.

“You tin conscionable spot a definite pattern. The Bar Association was pugnacious immoderate years ago, tough… Look astatine their show from, I think, Kufuor’s time, they started muting their voices.

“Since that time, present erstwhile NDC comes to power, hey, you perceive them again. These things happen. I'm not creating them… I'm conscionable scanning the facts arsenic they person occurred. You effort to bash this and spot whether you would not get astatine the aforesaid decision I person arrived at,” helium said.

Justice Atubiga mentioned that, though helium had pointed retired this contented to the GBA successful the past, helium was heavy criticised by immoderate of its members.

He added that helium volition proceed to talk the information nary substance the governmental enactment it affects.

“Let maine archer you, successful 2015 oregon thereabouts, the past Chief Judge, Georgina Woode, made maine correspond the Law Week celebrations of the University of Ghana… and successful my lecture I made a remark that the Bar Association appeared to beryllium moved to remark connected nationalist issues according to their governmental colouration. Before we adjacent finished the event… Frank Davis was connected air, chastising maine truthful and truthful and so.

“Look, these sorts of things… I'm a antithetic person. I privation to emphasise that I don't person clip for pretence. And I'm not similar that. Whether you are NDC oregon NPP, if you are right, yes, I'll enactment it. If you are not, your governmental colour means thing to me,” helium said.

The GBA was heavy criticised by a conception of the nationalist aft it demanded that President John Dramani Mahama reverse the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, saying it was unconstitutional.

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