The Deputy Chief of Staff successful complaint of Operations, Stanislav Xoese Dogbe, has reiterated President John Dramani Mahama’s unwavering committedness to upholding the regularisation of law, strengthening antiauthoritarian principles, and fostering a benignant of governance that welcomes constructive criticism.
While receiving the petition from governmental parties demonstrating against the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo astatine the Jubilee House connected Monday, May 5, 2025, Deputy Chief of Staff Stan Dogbe emphasised that President Mahama does not subscribe to the civilization of retaliatory authorities often witnessed nether erstwhile administrations.
Making his constituent clear, Stan Dogbe criticised the erstwhile medication for engaging successful acts of retaliatory politics, highlighting specified practices arsenic detrimental to antiauthoritarian governance.
“Let maine accidental that we are blessed that your process started this greeting and has ended precise peacefully. That successful itself is simply a precise beardown connection astir the ideology that President Mahama wants to instill successful our beloved country.
“If it were the lawsuit similar this implicit the past 8 years, I'm definite that the retaliatory authorities that you speech astir wouldn't person been the case. You referencing retaliatory authorities is an admittance that the 8 years of president Akufo-Addo and Bawumia were not the best. You tin beryllium assured however, that President Mahama arsenic each Ghanaian knows, is not that politician. President Mahama does not judge successful retaliatory politics,” helium said.
He, however, assured the demonstrators that specified practices volition not beryllium tolerated nether the existent administration, emphasising that President Mahama's authorities is committed to respecting the views of its critics and governmental opponents, and upholding the principles of inclusive and antiauthoritarian governance.
“We volition enactment unneurotic with you and each the governmental parties and your petition volition beryllium giving the owed response,” helium added.
The demonstration, organised by governmental parties and led by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) nether the banner #SaveTheJudiciaryDemo, marched from the Supreme Court to the Jubilee House, wherever they presented a petition to the president.
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