Should Judges In Ghana's Highest Courts Always Be on The Side Of The Citizenry - In Cases Against Hard-Of-Hearing Governments Of The Day?

In a secret Cabinet letter, last year, Ghana's finance minister, Hon. Ken Ofori Atta, predicted that the founder of GN Bank, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, would fight back against the revocation of his bank's license,  by challenging it in the law courts - but he (Ofori Atta)  was confident that because they were the government of the day, they would prevail there too. Very, very interesting, that. So revealing of the iniquitous  nature of our system.

Recently, judgements have been passed in a number of high profile cases, by the judges hearing them, which have baffled many apolitical, discerning and independent-minded Ghanaians. When such decent and apolitical citizens begin feeling that some judges can be relied on by the government  of the day, to deliver judgements favourable to a government in power in this country that is hobbled by high-level corruption, it makes them feel that  it is a development that certainly does not augur well for our nation's collective future.  And it doesn't, as a matter of fact, if truth be told.

We are in the midst of a pandemic that is growing more and more serious, if one listens to some of the fears expressed by COVID-19 burial team members.

Yet, the governing party's hardliners have thrown caution to the wind, and put society at grave risk, by maneuvering to get the Electoral Commission (EC), to go ahead, with the compilation of a new voters register - in the midst of a highly contagious coronavirus, which is killing scores of Ghanaians, we are told, by COVID-19 burial team members, decrying the insouciance of so many Ghanaians, about the risks involved in not adhering to the containment protocols, meant to stop the virus from spreading.

One won't even go into the morality of sending school children back to notoriously unhygenic boarding schools, hitherto perpetually under siege  by bedbugs, so as to (it now has become obvious to all but the deliberately-blind), simply enable them to be registered to vote. That definitely is amoral. Ditto arrogant and irresponsible, without  question.

Yet, their parents had been promised solemnly  that no outsiders, including even  they the children's parents' and guardians,' themselves, would be allowed into those schools, whiles the students were there  - as a preventative measure to stop outsiders infecting them:  thus ensuring that no outsiders could possibly  endanger the lives of their children and wards in those  boarding schools. Was it not selfish and cynical in the extreme, therefore,  to then allow the EC and the ruling party's bigwigs, to have access to them, one wonders? Incredible. Unspeakable.  Monstrous. Unpardonable. Abominable.

After being deliberately shunted aside by the hardliners in his party (now busy backstabbing him left right and centre),  for 14 days, under the ruse that he had tested positive for COVID-19, according to conspiracy-theorists quoted by bush-telegraph  sources,  President Akufo-Addo must now  fight back, to take full control of his regime, again, from the domineering-hardliners, who have now clearly taken over his presidency, and, rendered  him more or less a lame duck leader, unable to stop even the outrageous prostitution, of the honour of the noble profession of arms, by those of his appointees, who have infiltrated our national security apparatus with myrmidon-thugs, who  are said to be members of private militias belonging to extremist-hardliners in the New Patriotic Party  (NPP), who have been issued military and police uniforms, and who publicly  take their marching orders (to the eternal disgust and shame of the professionals in the police and military), from evil-political-blackguards, deploying them to voters  registration centres, to intimidate voters in opposition strongholds, across Ghana.

In such precipitous moments in our nation's history, all those  appointed by sitting Presidents, as judges of the highest courts in our homeland Ghana, who are women and men of integrity and good conscience, must understand clearly that ultimately,  it is the well-being of the citizenry, as  defined in the human rights guaranteed them, under  the 1992  Constitution,  which ought to influence all the judgements that they pass, when the outcomes of such controversial cases, could embarrass those in governments of the day. Full stop.  Case closed.

In light of all that, we shall all follow such controversial cases, now before judges, to see how they will eventually rule on them - particularly in the case brought against today's  hard-of-hearing regime, which has so foolishly decided to permit the mining of bauxite, in the Atewa Forest Forest Reserve, which  is the watershed of three major river systems that over 5 million Ghanaians depend on, for the potable water sourced from the Densu, Ayensu and Birim rivers for treatment and distribution, to villages,  towns and duties across southern Ghana.

Is that abominable  decision by the current regime not an egregious abuse of their human right to life - since water is life: and not having access to it is literally a death sentence?  We rest our case. Hmmmm, Oman Ghana eyeasem ooooo - enti yewieye paaa enei?  Asem kesie ebeba debi ankasa. Yooooo...



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