New Crusading Guide Editor-in Chief, Kweku Baako has fired the major opposition party in Ghana National Democratic Congress (NDC) for its press conference held following Chief Justice Anin-Yeboah’s petition against Dr. Dominic Ayine.
Dr. Ayine has been accused by the CJ of undermining the independence of the judiciary during the Center for Democratic Development’s forum held.
This was in a letter written by the CJ to the Ghana Legal Council (GLC) where he claimed that Dr. Ayine made some comments about the independence of the judiciary.
But Dr. Ayine has said that he said nothing wrong about the independence of the judiciary during the forum.
“as I have stated in this response, as a lawyer, I have a special responsibility to engage in criticism of the work of the judiciary. By reason of my training and experience, I am better placed than most of my fellow citizens to point out deficiencies in judgments and in the performance by the judiciary of its core constitutional mandate”, Dr. Ayine reacted to the CJ’s letter.
Dr. Ayine accused the CJ flaming a judiciary tyranny that will gag NDC lawyers, however Kweku Baako thinks otherwise.
Kweku Baako has reacted to the whole brouhaha saying;
”…we are now being told by their party that these lawyers affiliated to them appear to have been singled out and are being intimidated into submission of some sort. Now, these lawyers, they’re lawyers; not people like us. They go before the Committee, a Committee which is part of their own profession, all this thing is captured in the Legal Professional Conduct And Etiquette Rules 2020 (LI 24/23)…They submit themselves to this; I don’t know maybe at a gunpoint and yet we have their party…there soliciting some sympathy…on their behalf that they’re being intimidated”, he stated, asking ”don’t they have their own senses? Aren’t they trained minds? Aren’t they learned people? Aren’t they members of the learned profession? When they go to the Committee, what animal is that Committee?”
”The political intrusion by the NDC was needless and it distorts and pollutes the environment,” he emphasized.