Private Legal Practitioner, Lawyer Nana Akwa, has said that the determination of the Chief Justice, Paul Baffour Bonnie that the petition for the Electoral Commissioner, Jean Measa and her two deputies to be removed from office lacks prima facie elements, shows the independence of the Judiciary.
Speaking to Alfa Ali on the Orange Sunrise this morning, Lawyer Nana Akwa said the fact that the government can lose cases to individuals affirms the independence of the judiciary.
“There has been that doubt that there is no independence of the judiciary, but now people are realising that there is independence of the judiciary and that independence has been explicitly provided for by the constitution”, he explained.
He also added that the notion that there is no independence of the Judiciary is because more often than not, when individuals file cases against the government, the government wins. Lawyer Nana Akwa said that this was not always the case, citing cases from former President Jerry John Rawlings’s regime.
He added that the decision of the Chief Justice was according to his discretion and backed by the constitution.
“By the Chief Justice’s own deductions from the petitions that were brought before him, he found that there was nothing substantial in what was brought before him, so it is the essence of the constitutional power conferred on him and in line with the constitution”.
He clarified that the decision of the Chief Justice does not imply that there was no truth in the petitions submitted for the removal of the EC, her two deputies and the special prosecutor.
By: Janice Opoku-Agyemang
