{"id":1271153,"date":"2022-12-29T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/akufo-addo-swears-in-two-new-justices-of-the-sc-gender-minister-and-deputy\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T08:45:18","slug":"akufo-addo-swears-in-two-new-justices-of-the-sc-gender-minister-and-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/akufo-addo-swears-in-two-new-justices-of-the-sc-gender-minister-and-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo swears in two new Justices of the SC: Gender Minister and Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\"  alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1672259263136.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259263136-696x418.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"418\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259263136-696x418.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1672259263136.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday, 28th December 2022, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo swore into office the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Abudu and her Deputy Francisca Oteng-Mensah who are all lawmakers, at a short ceremony at Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259370215-950x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275468 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259370215-950x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275468\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>He also swore into office two new Justices of the Supreme Court. <\/p>\n<p>They are Justices Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu; and Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259283372-1024x634.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275469 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"634\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259283372-1024x634.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275469\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"683\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259291358.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275470 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259291358.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275470\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>He urged the newly-sworn Justices \u2018to bear in mind that the growth of our nation demands that we have a Judiciary that commands the respect of the people by the quality of its delivery of justice, as well as by the comportment of its judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259307448-923x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275471 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259307448-923x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275471\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>He added \u201cApplication of the laws of the land must occur, in the words of the judicial oath, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will, and, therefore, without recourse to the political, religious or ethnic affiliations of any citizen of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259274442-847x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275472 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"847\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672259274442-847x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275472\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, 28th December 2022, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo swore into office the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Abudu and her Deputy Francisca Oteng-Mensah who are all lawmakers, at a short ceremony at Jubilee House. He also swore into office two new Justices of the Supreme Court. They are Justices Barbara [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271153","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=1271153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}