Government Spokesperson, Felix Ofosu Kwakye, is of the view that for the past 32 years, the judiciary has not been fair to the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He cites cases the political party has lost in the past and even during the era of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s era as President.
To Kwakye Ofosu, the judiciary may have something against the NPP because of the history the political party has with the judiciary.
He believes that it is about time the party seeks balance and fairness from the judiciary.
Felix Kwakye Ofosu was speaking on Point of View on Accra-based Channel 1 when he expressed this position.
“The Chief Justice is not at the beck and call of the President. She is the head of an independent institution. We have our own views, and I have my views, and I don’t think they’ve been fair to the NDC. They’ve not been fair to the NDC for 32 years. You’ll recall the Rawlings era? The government of the day lost almost all the cases taken to court.
You’ll recall the famous case about June 4th and 31st December, the GBC case and the one that J.H Mensah took to court in terms of whether Ministers should be vetted again if they have been appointed ministers previously or not. We lost all those cases.
Under the NPP, I will say, I am a member of parliament, and I’ve not hidden my dissatisfaction about the way that the judiciary has performed. It was possible for Afenyo Markins to file a case in court and have it slated to be heard within twelve hours. Yet the minority at the time has filed a case against the passage of the e-levy, which has been pending for three years. By a stroke of a pen, Godfred Dame was able to change a judge sitting on a case, and yet Opuni tried everything under this sun, and the same judge was maintained.
It was possible for a Judge who held Kennedy Agyapong in contempt to be changed because it was said that the contempt was held against him. Yet the people against whom contempt was supposed to have been done in the Montie three case were sitting on the same case. So the inconsistency, the unfairness, the imbalance is manifest that is a position that I hold to this day. One of the things that we need to do is that we need to insist that there is fairness and that there is balance. Because of historical reasons, I think there is antipathy towards the NDC; it has a historical basis but justice ought not to be done on the basis of perception of political parties,” he stated.
