The President Akufo-Addo administration has been accused by former President John Mahama of overcrowding Ghanaian courts with appointments in an effort to dodge accountability once the NPP leaves power.
According to Mahama, some of these lawyers President Akufo-Addo has leapfrogged to the bench are known political persons.
Addressing the closing session of the 3rd Lawyers Conference organized by NDC Lawyers Association at Akosombo in the Eastern region Mahama said, “Our lawyers, some of you must be prepared to go onto the bench, I know that some of you have very lucrative legal practices you will not want to leave and go onto the bench. But you can see what the current President has done, he appointed the largest number of judges onto the bench. More than 80 towards hundred and counting.
He’s packed the court and we know that they’ve packed the court because they want to avoid accountability after they have left office. So all manner of people who have been known to be partisan, to have been executives of their party who are in the legal profession have been leapfrogged onto the Superior courts and other places,” Mr. Mahama stated.
