The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is accusing the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of systematically shooting key state establishments, in particular the Judiciary, following what it describes because the illegal removing of former Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkonoo.

Speaking on the release of the NPP’s Amended 2025 Constitution, General Secretary Justin Frimpong Kodua alleged that the federal government is tightening its grip on state establishments to persuade court docket circumstances, overturn legitimately misplaced parliamentary seats, and weaken democratic exams and balances.

“Unfortunately, the Judiciary, which is supposed to be the last vanguard of the rule of law, has suddenly been captured by the Executive, particularly after the unlawful removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Torkonoo,” he mentioned.

Kodua additional claimed that judges are increasingly more afraid to ship rulings strictly according to the regulation because of imaginable retaliation from the Executive.

“Some judges now invoke the chilling words of dictators like Idi Amin: ‘You may have freedom of speech, but freedom after speech cannot be guaranteed.’”

He additionally accused some judges of assuming jurisdiction the place none exists and issuing politically questionable rulings in parliamentary issues.

The NPP General Secretary warned that those trends pose a grave danger to Ghana’s democratic balance and prompt civil society, the clergy, and the multinational neighborhood to have in mind of what he referred to as creeping authoritarianism.

Kodua added that almost a 12 months into the NDC’s organization, the rustic is witnessing escalating abuse of incumbency and state-sponsored intimidation of political warring parties, pointing particularly to the federal government’s expanding reliance on nolle prosequi to discontinue circumstances involving NDC contributors accused of embezzling public finances.

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