The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed confidence that the the newly appointed Chief Justice Her Ladyship Sophia Akuffo will jealously guard independence of the judiciary.
“Will be an effective leader of the Judiciary, and guard jealously its independence. She will bring honour to the Judiciary and to our country,” he said.
According to him, “have not yet lived down the trauma of the excruciating shock and embarrassment of seeing officers of our courts in such compromising situations”, following the Anas exposé of corruption in the Judiciary.
“But, I am glad to be able to say that our Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, Ghana’s first female Chief Justice, quickly rose to the occasion and introduced reforms to restore some dignity to the Judiciary,” he stated.
The President said this on Tuesday June 13, 2017, when he delivered a speech under the theme “Ghana, A Rising Star of Africa”, at an event organised by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, in Berlin, Germany.
He indicated that he prefers loud and reckless media to meek and praise singers, “It is a loud and crowded media that we now have, and some feel that many journalists err on the side of recklessness. There is a lot to teach and to train those who practice journalism in our country, but, I must say, I would much rather have the loud and reckless media than the meek and praise singing one that used to characterize our newspapers, radio and television.”
The President expressed appreciation to Konrad Adenauer Foundation for training journalists “is one of the sectors in which the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has been active in Ghana, with funding for the continuous training of our journalists, and it is one of the many things for which we owe you the Foundation a debt of gratitude.”
The Chief Justice took over from Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood.
By: Ghana/Ultimatefmonline.com/106.9FM
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The President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed confidence that the the newly appointed Chief Justice Her Ladyship Sophia Akuffo will jealously guard independence of the judiciary. “Will be an effective leader of the Judiciary, and guard jealously its independence. She will bring honour to the Judiciary and to our country,” he said. According to […]
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