They have, in a manner characteristic of the so-called revolutionary years, demanded the resignation of the Chief Justice, an effrontery that can only be mustered by persons drawing their confidence from the corridors of power in a system where the rule of law is under siege.
We are not surprised but worried by the seed sown by those who took this country down the path of rare bloodshed. It was a time when persons also drawing authority from a junta descended on high court judges and murdered them.
Their trails, covered by officialdom, could not conceal the telltales regarding the origin of the murder, an unrivaled blight on our history.
The renewed threat is part of a grand design borne out of desperation, game-plan if you like, to cause fear and panic within those on the Bench, with a view to hounding them, especially the Chief Justice from office.
This way, the rule of law whose protection President John Evans Atta Mills, himself a lawyer, has vowed to uphold, always would be undermined subtly.
So many years after the murder of some judges on 30th June 1982, the engineers of the official murder are still walking the streets and still harbouring vehemence against the judiciary.
Women have been the favourite targets of the bloody cadres. Their sights are now focused on the first female Chief Justice in our country’s history. This attempt must be despised by all cherishers of the rule of law.
We challenge anybody who thinks otherwise to call our bluff. At times like these when money is available for all manner of political projects, from convening conferences of salvation peddlers to doling out funds to GAMERs, the abrupt emergence of such nitwits is not amazing.
We cannot escape the wrath of generations unborn if we pretend that the birth of the so-called Network of Social Democrats is not detrimental to the decent and civil Ghanaian society we seek to build.
The festering of such anathema in our body-politic is a major blow to our democracy and the conscience of the nation.
We find it nonsensical and mischievous the resort to such a crude and puerile project to derail the judiciary.
If Ghanaian women must rally round one of their kind and fight tooth and nail to protect her, it should be Her Ladyship Georgina Theodora Wood.
She has shown an exceptional resilience to simple and complex manouvres by the state to undermine her, with the view to hanging her, all to no avail. Not even the threat of the many options of killing a cat, as dangled before her hardworking judges, could dampen her spirit.
We find it unusual and strange that the network which claims that the police tops the corruption ratings has not demanded the resignation of the Inspector General of Police but rather the Chief Justice for presiding over a corrupt judiciary in their estimation.
The project to derail the institution of the judiciary is a declaration of war against democracy in the country. All those who embrace the lofty ideals of democracy must rally round the Chief Justice and the judiciary which she embodies. The detractors of democracy, no matter the epithets they wear, will fail because we outnumber them. Most Ghanaians prefer democracy and therefore a strong judiciary to an oppressor’s rule.
Credit: Daily Guide/Ghana
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Editorial: Martyrs day and a renewed threat