Making Judicial Decisions

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• Kakraba Cromwell 12 years ago

  TWIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
  i have just wasted my time on such an intellectually dishonest article

  TWIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!
  i have just wasted my time on such an intellectually dishonest article

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Excellent piece, Kwaku!
  Anyone appoointed to any position in Ghana has to justify his/her continued employment by performace. Judges do not.
  
  This woeful dissipation of national resourcces is universal. The President can ...
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  Excellent piece, Kwaku!
  Anyone appoointed to any position in Ghana has to justify his/her continued employment by performace. Judges do not.
  
  This woeful dissipation of national resourcces is universal. The President can oversee the destruciton of our national economy (the cedi depreciating up to 50% in some cases), and still manage to use the people's money to get himself re-elected in four years!
  
  Some parliamentarians never make one contribution in parliament for four years, and still collect ridiculous "end of service benefits" at the end of EVERY four years, as long as they manage to convince tribesmen and village chiefs to vote for them!
  
  What does the minister of information do to require two deputies? How much fish do we catch in a year to rquire a whole ministry with a deputy and chief director? When we have a failing education system in which whole districts score 0% at the basic examinationn level, what is the sense in the multiplicity of institutions/departments all overseeing education?
  
  Coming back to the judiciary, commercial and other specilaist courts were created to expidite action on specialist cases. They all soon fall into the same snail pace adjudication process.
  
  In the 21st century any court that cannot understand PowerPoint presentation, has no justification to exist!

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• insight to the bone 12 years ago

  it is nothing new that the great minds and leaders of the Akans are being continuously persecuted , killed or slandered by non Akans at the drop of a hat , now the time has come for freedom from these rivers of Babylon , the ...
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  it is nothing new that the great minds and leaders of the Akans are being continuously persecuted , killed or slandered by non Akans at the drop of a hat , now the time has come for freedom from these rivers of Babylon , the lord shall set us free as he so delivered the children of isreal from Egypt so shall the time come to free us from these evil pepeni and ayigbe devils with their traitors amongst us. we are now ready to fight in any way or form as victory is ours . there will be no mercy for these collaborators and traitors as it is necessary to wipe out their mutant genes by taking out their parents brothers and cousins who have also been polluted by this ndc greed. forward ever backward never , long live the republic of Akan

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• Odasani 12 years ago

  Dr Kwaku Danso you have committed conspiracy to commit CONTEMPT, CONTEMPT and CONTEMPT! You should be invited to face sentencing by His Lordship Justice Atubuga and his SC panel. For Prison I recommend the Ussher Fort in Accr ...
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  Dr Kwaku Danso you have committed conspiracy to commit CONTEMPT, CONTEMPT and CONTEMPT! You should be invited to face sentencing by His Lordship Justice Atubuga and his SC panel. For Prison I recommend the Ussher Fort in Accra so that all the Judges of the High Court can keep an eye on you. Your are a subversive individual trying to turn our nice system on its head.

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• Bomfaboy 12 years ago

  These facts are known by every person that have had a case in court or been exposed to the Ghanaian court system. What will we say to a doctor that spends even more that 30minutes to make a diagnosis, given the right environ ...
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  These facts are known by every person that have had a case in court or been exposed to the Ghanaian court system. What will we say to a doctor that spends even more that 30minutes to make a diagnosis, given the right environment? Who and what are the causes, and to blame! LAWYERS!! The same way they have run down our political system, they have run aground the legal system. It appears to me lawyers live and breaths corruption and always looking for ways to twist the law they themselves make in their favor. What a shame. We all know why they collude with judges to delay and delay cases. It's just to extort money from their clients. Aaa for the Police and public prosecutors in the Attorney Generals office the less said about them the better. Look at all the judgement debts that are being paid? They destroy files, misplace files, and many times just don't care. Thank God the chief justice made sure we all saw the proceedings on TV. It just turn out there is no reason for such cases to take that length of time. Why cant the judicial system in Ghana learn from places as US which can have expedited trials? Well when you have a SC who does not want to work on holidays and weekends, what do you expect! When justice is delayed it breeds corruption. It opens avenue for people to manipulate, and money changes hands and influence so many people. In the end justice is not served. It's about time the rules of the courts are re- written, and old outmoded practices thrown away.

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• Chabba 12 years ago

  Kwaku, I understand your frustration about what appears to be a cleverly contrived delay by the president of the Supreme Court regarding the petition. But the blame actually should be put at the doorsteps of the framers of th ...
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  Kwaku, I understand your frustration about what appears to be a cleverly contrived delay by the president of the Supreme Court regarding the petition. But the blame actually should be put at the doorsteps of the framers of the forth republic constitution who tailored it to meet the whims and caprices of Rawlings. There is no time limit in election dispute according to the constitution unlike that of Kenya. Does it make any sense for a constitution to allow a disputed president to be sworn in before commencing an electoral case at the SC? So, you see, John Mahama is exploiting this loophole created by the constitutional framers to cling on to power as long as he could. If you get so-called intellectuals who are sycophantic, mediocre and plain idiots to draft a constitution for a country, that is what you get!

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  Chabba,
  It is true that the constitution was tailor-made for the coward Jerry Rawlings, but why haven't we done anything about it in twenty years? As you may remember, the PNDC with educated crooks like Kwesi Botchwey (who b ...
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  Chabba,
  It is true that the constitution was tailor-made for the coward Jerry Rawlings, but why haven't we done anything about it in twenty years? As you may remember, the PNDC with educated crooks like Kwesi Botchwey (who believed that it was a waste of time for politicians to leaf through the Constitution to look for faults), created a constitutional commission made up of illiterate PDCs, WDCs, mechanics, market women and and others and used their second rate lawyers to push their agenda.
  
  President in Kuffuor as a trained lawyer, had the opportunity in his second term to do something about the Constitution. Instead, he busied himself awarding medals and awards to himself.
  
  The monarchical powers that the Constitutions confers on the president to dash state monies and other favours to friends and cronies is very appealing. It will require civil society, all of us, to do something about it. Any country whose president can overspend the budget of his tiny office by as much as 600 million in a single year, is just a banana republic!

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  What an insult!!! By all means, you may disagree with the people who drafted the constitution but is this how to characterise them? I thought it was a more balanced group?
  
  As I recall, the drafting of the "second Republica ...
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  What an insult!!! By all means, you may disagree with the people who drafted the constitution but is this how to characterise them? I thought it was a more balanced group?
  
  As I recall, the drafting of the "second Republican constitution" was not that "inclusive" but I suspect you regard that team as the most "intelligent, educated, classy" and 'devoid of any mechanics, low down workers and the good-for-nothings in our society'.
  
  who gives you the right to condemn others in such terms Kobena? What do you take yourself for? and who in hell do you think you are? Another one of those who think you are above others ehh? Absolute nonsense and a pathetic individual!!

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• Kobena 12 years ago

  I am just an ordinary Ghanaian who happens to employ people in Ghana, but whose taxes are squandered willy nilly because we have a constitution that makes it possible for people to spend the taxpayer's money without accountab ...
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  I am just an ordinary Ghanaian who happens to employ people in Ghana, but whose taxes are squandered willy nilly because we have a constitution that makes it possible for people to spend the taxpayer's money without accountability, as the Auditor-General' report has shown every year, for the past twenty years!
  
  Take a look at the Second and Third Republican Constitutions, read the language of it and you will get my drift. I don't trade in insults. I am way, way above that!

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• Smart 12 years ago

  I am at a loss as to why both so-called educated, intellelctuals and ordinary people don't talk about this obvious stupidity in the cconstitution of allowing someone to be sworn in as president even though there is a dispute, ...
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  I am at a loss as to why both so-called educated, intellelctuals and ordinary people don't talk about this obvious stupidity in the cconstitution of allowing someone to be sworn in as president even though there is a dispute, without thrashing the dispute first. GHANIANS are trully fools and stupid, just talk.
  GOD HAVE MERCY ON US!

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  Perhaps you can start with lavish spending Ghanaians who waste money everyday on things they don't need.
  
  I find your suggestion about cutting the supreme court justices by 50% illogical. What is the basis of your argument? ...
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  Perhaps you can start with lavish spending Ghanaians who waste money everyday on things they don't need.
  
  I find your suggestion about cutting the supreme court justices by 50% illogical. What is the basis of your argument?
  
  with regards to the length of the ongoing SC case, I agree it is taking a long time, but how do you propose we tackle that? Should we for instance limit the number of witnesses who should be called ( that was done in this case to speed up the process I believe)? Should we limit the number of days a witness can be cross examined? (perhaps, but then again you will be the same person complaining)?
  
  Should we limit the number of people "joined" to the case? (I argued from the onset that I did not see any good reason for there being three petitioners; likewise there being an NDC joiner in the case but once the petitioners had set a precedent and been allowed to, with Bawumiah and Obetsebi-Lamptey whom I still cannot comprehend his role in this whole business, the justices had no choice but to accept the NDC/Nketiah being joined to the case).
  
  You see the trouble here is not about the system, but about the same human beings who want the system to work for them. Why was it not a straight forward petition by one person (Nana Addo) or one party (NPP) AGAINST the Electoral Commission (not the commissioner)? Why join the president and the NDC to the claim? Why accuse them of collusion and why accuse the EC of working for the president and favouring him?
  
  Surely if (as has turned out) the issue was primarily about omissions, irregularities, poor administration etc. which were PROCESSES associated with the FUNCTIONING of the EC and as appears to be the case, these were human errors (however massive the scale) but not planned and orchestrated in connivance to defraud and to FAVOUR ONE PARTY OVER THE OTHER,then why on earth was the NDC and the president drawn into the matter in the first place.
  
  If the petitioners had followed commonsense and proper due process, we might have had the whole process finished with one month of the elections and got the country going and spending our money in the right things.
  
  From your posting, the only key lesson I think we can glean, and should learn is how in the future to prevent such a silly approach to petitioning the courts on matters such as this, and the courts to make sure that such an extensive petition which does not make much sense, is not allowed to be put forward. The court must perhaps be more proactive in directing petitioners to limit their petition and focus on the actual FACTS pertaining specifically to their grievance so that the court's own time is not wasted and tax payers' money is not wasted.
  
  I would vote for that and hope you would too. I hope you see the sense in what I am driving at. We won't need all the nonsense from the media and pundits such as you and I and will not take so much media and television and work time!!!
  
  Let's cut the crap and focus on serious matters. Let's also writing for the sake of it.

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• NANA YAW 12 years ago

  well said.They are delaying.we have all known the truth so why then are you delaying us.Mahama should go for ADDO to come

  well said.They are delaying.we have all known the truth so why then are you delaying us.Mahama should go for ADDO to come

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• Wiafe 12 years ago

  If Akuffo Addo is that patriotic and really wished Ghana well--he would have swallowed his pride and conceded defeat. After all, All Ghanaian heads of state--have all FAILED--and it will include Mahama and Akuffo (if he ever ...
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  If Akuffo Addo is that patriotic and really wished Ghana well--he would have swallowed his pride and conceded defeat. After all, All Ghanaian heads of state--have all FAILED--and it will include Mahama and Akuffo (if he ever gets there).
  
  So what on earth is the big deal?
  
  Now all these costs for the country just because of the ego of some disillusioned and unproductive one person.
  
  If Akuffo really is interested in the fortunes of the nation--why not use his wealth to establish a scholarship for SS students--rather than his idealized notion of using would-be "borrowed" money to establish free secondary education.
  
  And then for those graduates of the borrowed free education to spend the rest of their lives with poor wages to pay back that borrowed "free" education money.
  
  Its all foolishness--if you ask me.

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• K BOATENG 12 years ago

  HOW DO YOU EXPECT QUICK JUDICIAL JUDGEMENT WHEN AT THE SAME TIME YOU WANT THE NUMBER OF JUDGES TO BE CUT DOWN. WISE UP

  HOW DO YOU EXPECT QUICK JUDICIAL JUDGEMENT WHEN AT THE SAME TIME YOU WANT THE NUMBER OF JUDGES TO BE CUT DOWN. WISE UP

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• baafour 12 years ago

  wrong, no one was arrested, they were invited to defend themselves after all Ghanaians were warned not to inflame partisan politics while the petition was before the Court.Disrespecting Court orders is Contempt and is punisha ...
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  wrong, no one was arrested, they were invited to defend themselves after all Ghanaians were warned not to inflame partisan politics while the petition was before the Court.Disrespecting Court orders is Contempt and is punishable.Don't mislead the public.

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• Prof Lungu 12 years ago

  We agree with much of what is said here. However, a nation is not a business. A nation can hardly be "run" as a "business". It does not happen any where on this planet.

  We agree with much of what is said here. However, a nation is not a business. A nation can hardly be "run" as a "business". It does not happen any where on this planet.

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• Sankofa 12 years ago

  The Kenya constitutional provision on adjudication of electoral disputes heavily favours the winner of the elections as declared by the electoral commission. It gives a very limited time for a judicial challenge to be launch ...
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  The Kenya constitutional provision on adjudication of electoral disputes heavily favours the winner of the elections as declared by the electoral commission. It gives a very limited time for a judicial challenge to be launched and such a case to be determined.
  
  The Ghana constitutional provision tries to be fair to all sides by not stipulating how long a case should take.
  
  Given that this is the very first time that we have had such a case, the SC judges have been careful to be seen to be fair to all sides, so that a final verdict is accepted by all.
  
  It is unfair to suggest that they have deliberately dragged this case for personal gain.

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• Ekuma 12 years ago

  Are u a TRUMUIST or a TWERP ? If it is bcos of the most stupid and foolish General Secretary ever seen in Ghana's political history, the reason why idiotic Kwaku Danso is writing all these nonsenscal PLENTY , then u shd thin ...
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  Are u a TRUMUIST or a TWERP ? If it is bcos of the most stupid and foolish General Secretary ever seen in Ghana's political history, the reason why idiotic Kwaku Danso is writing all these nonsenscal PLENTY , then u shd think twice.
  
  That STUPId nd arrogant brute called d sir John will definitely taste 'ZONTOLI' next week and he will repent from his VILLAGE nonsense. 'NKwasiasem ara kwa kwa '

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