{"id":1227913,"date":"2022-10-18T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/minority-reminds-akufo-addo-of-financial-implications-of-appointing-many-judges\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T17:32:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T17:32:43","slug":"minority-reminds-akufo-addo-of-financial-implications-of-appointing-many-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/18\/minority-reminds-akufo-addo-of-financial-implications-of-appointing-many-judges\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has expressed worry about President Akufo-Addo\u2019s continuous nomination of judges to the Supreme Court Bench.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the Caucus, President Akufo-Addo\u2019s appointment of judges to the apex court is unprecedented in the Fourth Republic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They insist the increase from 11 to 14 justices has the tendency to drain the resources of the state.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"685\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Akufo-Addo-at-Manhyia3-1024x685.jpeg\" alt=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\" class=\"wp-image-10032189403 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, made this known on Tuesday during the vetting of newly appointed judges to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/supreme-court.jpg\" alt=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\" class=\"wp-image-10032065349 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you take the fourth republican period, we have seen a significant number of appointments by the President in the exercise of his powers in Article 144.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"567\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Haruna-Iddrisu-1-1024x567.png\" alt=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\" class=\"wp-image-10032114758 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\"\/><figcaption>Minority Leader,  Haruna Iddrisu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBut note that President Mills contributed about 21.4%, John Dramani Mahama, 28.6%, and Nana Akufo-Addo, 78.6% from 11 to 14 Supreme Court judges. We wonder if he is mindful of the public purse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Temale South legislator also said criticisms against the Judiciary form part of political accountability.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"704\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/President-Akufo-Addo.jpeg\" alt=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\" class=\"wp-image-10032184050 lazy\"  data- title=\"Minority reminds Akufo-Addo of financial implications of appointing many judges\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He thus urged the citizenry to embrace same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is part of political accountability for us to demand that things are done, and done right,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The newly nominated justices are; Justice Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu, Justice of the Court of Appeal; Mr Justice George Kingsley Koomson, Justice of the Court of Appeal; Mr Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu, Justice of the Court of Appeal; and Mr Justice Ernest Yao Gaewu, Justice of the High Court.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has expressed worry about President Akufo-Addo\u2019s continuous nomination of judges to the Supreme Court Bench.\u00a0 According to the Caucus, President Akufo-Addo\u2019s appointment of judges to the apex court is unprecedented in the Fourth Republic.\u00a0 They insist the increase from 11 to 14 justices has the tendency to drain the resources of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1227915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1227913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}