Patience Baffoe-Bonnie (L) and Justice Baffoe-Bonnie (R)
Veteran broadcaster Kwami Sefa Kayi has praised the love story and life decisions of Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie and his wife, Patience Baffoe-Bonnie, describing their journey as “a very beautiful story of posterity.”
Speaking on the Kokrokoo Morning Show on November 21, 2025, the journalist highlighted what he called a remarkable tale of sacrifice, discipline and destiny.
According to him, Justice Baffoe-Bonnie, who once worked in the Ghana Prisons Service, made a significant personal sacrifice decades ago when he chose to resign from the service in order to marry the woman he loved who at the time was a junior officer and is now the Director-General of the Prisons Service.
“I find Baffoe-Bonnie’s story very interesting. He was in the Prisons Service and his wife the current Director-General of the Prisons Service was a junior officer.
“A junior officer cannot marry a senior officer, so he left the service so that he could marry her. At the end, the lady he left in the service is now the Director-General and he is the Chief Justice. It is a very beautiful story of posterity,” Sefa Kayi stated.
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Justice Baffoe-Bonnie shared details of this chapter of his life during his vetting before Parliament’s Appointments Committee on Monday, November 10, 2025.
He revealed that he left the Prisons Service in 1988 after learning that, as a Deputy Superintendent, internal regulations barred him from marrying a junior officer.
He recounted joining the Prisons Service in 1988, undergoing six months of military training, and later being posted to Sekondi. It was there that he met Patience, who at the time had no rank and was a sixth-form student working within the service.
He served for about two years, but in 1990, when he was officially informed that marrying a junior officer would breach service rules, he chose love over career.
“Since the rules would not allow us to be together, I decided to leave the service,” he told the committee.
Following his resignation, Baffoe-Bonnie pursued a career in law, steadily rising through the ranks to become one of Ghana’s most respected judges
On the other hand, his wife, Patience Baffoe-Bonnie remained in the Ghana Prisons Service, rising through the hierarchy to become the Director-General one of the most powerful positions within Ghana’s security services.
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