Kan Dapaah’s advice to judges has vindicated the NDC and Mahama- Abraham Amaliba
Legal team member of the opposition the National Democratic Congress, Abraham Amaliba has indicated that comment about the perceived favouritism of the Judiciary by the Minister for National Security, Albert Kan Dapaah exonerates the position of the party on the courts’ decisions.
Mr Amaliba’s views on the issue stem from a piece of advice the National Security Minister Albert Kan-Dapaah gave to judges at a forum in Accra where Mr Kan Dapaah stated that “Confidence in the judiciary will be lost if interpretation always favours the government, and the judiciary perceived to be biased is a big threat to national security”.
“Injustice occasioned as a result of the absence of an effective justice delivery system or delayed justice or biased justice is certainly a threat to national security,” he noted.
“Indeed, when injustice abounds, particularly in situations where the bench, which is considered the final arbiter of disputes, is deemed biased, citizens tend to take the law into their own hands most times without recourse to the established systems of justice delivery.”
Stating his stance on the advice, Mr Amaliba said the NDC has always perceived judgments in default negative against them and was recently reechoed by former President John Mahama.
“It goes to vindicate the position of the NDC and recently you heard the former president make that call the party has a problem with the judiciary,” he said.
