The Constitutional Rights and Policy Strategy Advisor, Oliver Barker-Vormawor has raised some concerns about how Judges are begging the Executive to give them their allowances and how the constitution has a lot of faults.
In a conversation on Morning Star with Naa Dedei Tettey, Mr. Barker-Vormawor criticized the Ghanaian judiciary for not adhering to constitutional protocols regarding trial adjournments.
According to him, the court has still not commenced a coup case against him.
“Since 2021, there have been no trials, despite the constitution stating that cases cannot be adjourned for more than a month”, Barker Vormawor disclosed.
He highlighted that the judiciary’s failure to uphold this law, with some cases adjourned for three months, constitutes a breach of legal standards.
Mr. Barker-Vormawor also expressed concerns about the judiciary’s integrity, suggesting that it operates under undue influence from the executive arm of government.
“I think it beholds on us who are part of the legal profession to talk about the dysfunction of our judiciary. So have a justice system that lacks the balls to throw away these ridiculous charges. Because everybody is looking at the executives and begging for appointments and hoping to be promoted, that’s also a constitutional fault.
“Because the design makes it such that judges are begging the executive to get promoted. The Chief Justice at a point was begging the presidency to give them their allowances”.
He continued: “We have the current chief justice writing to the President to appoint people to the Supreme Court”.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/103.5FM/Rosalinda Adutwumwaa
