{"id":1271173,"date":"2022-12-29T09:25:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/ghanas-devt-requires-a-judiciary-that-commands-the-respect-of-the-people-akufo-addo-tells-new-sc-justices\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T09:25:32","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T09:25:32","slug":"ghanas-devt-requires-a-judiciary-that-commands-the-respect-of-the-people-akufo-addo-tells-new-sc-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/29\/ghanas-devt-requires-a-judiciary-that-commands-the-respect-of-the-people-akufo-addo-tells-new-sc-justices\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana&#8217;s devt requires a judiciary that commands the respect of the people &#8211; Akufo-Addo tells new SC Justices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"867\"  alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1672304111617.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304111617-1-696x867.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"867\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304111617-1-696x867.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1672304111617.jpg\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has told the newly-sworn in justices of the Supreme Court, Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu; and Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu to bear in mind that the growth of the nation demands 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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304094401-1024x648.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275490 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"648\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304094401-1024x648.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275490\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Akufo-Addo told them that application of the laws of the land must occur 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.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304101694-885x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275480 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"885\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304101694-885x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275480\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>The President said these on Wednesday December 28 when he swore in the two new justices of the apex court at a ceremony at the Jubilee House.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"1024\" alt=\"\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304106989-881x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275481 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"881\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304106989-881x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275481\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Akufo-Addo also used the occasion to swear into office the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Lariba Abudu and her Deputy, Francisca Oteng-Mensah.<\/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_1672304402601-950x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275482 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"950\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304402601-950x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275482\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\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_1672304116489-923x1024.jpg\" data- class=\"wp-image-275483 lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"923\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/FB_IMG_1672304116489-923x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275483\"  \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has told the newly-sworn in justices of the Supreme Court, Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu; and Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu to bear in mind that the growth of the nation demands a Judiciary that commands the respect of the people by the quality of its delivery of justice, as well as by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1271173","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\/1271173","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=1271173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1271173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1271173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1271173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}