A former member of parliament for Tamale Central, Inusah Fuseini, says the comment by the Attorney General, Godfred Odame, about lawyers is in bad taste.
The Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame condemned lawyers who attack the courts and judges on social media when judgments do not go in the favour of their favorite.
Speaking at a Bench, Bar and Faculty conference in Accra on Thursday April 21 2022, The Attorney General, Godfred Yeboah Dame called for lawyers who engage in such practices to be punished.
“My Lord Chief Justice, one would have thought that lawyers would have taken advantage of the digital revolution, which I have spoken about this morning, to consolidate the importance of this legal profession and its role in the affairs of the state.
“On the contrary, recent developments disclose systematic attempt by certain lawyers, often belonging to a side of the political divide to deploy social media to denigrate the administration of justice through poisoning and caustic attacks on judgements of the courts, albeit unjustified. This is often worsened in commentary on so-called political cases where some lawyers perceive the outcome to have a far reaching consequence for the objectives of political parties they sympathize with.
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“Faced with adverse rulings, some lawyers go to the rather farcical extent of actually advocating for the abolishing or scrapping our courts. The most deplorable thing about such endeavour is that many times their vicious comments are plainly wrong yet the propagators of these wrong and dangerous ideas do not relent in their efforts to push them down the throat of unsuspecting public,” Attorney General said at the conference.
Reacting to the comment in an interview with host of Atinka FM’s AM Drive Kaakyire Ofori Ayim, Inusah Fuseini stated that clearly the Attorney General’s comment is directed at the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to the former Minister for Roads and Highways, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is noted for attacking the judiciary even before the advent of the media.
“As a lawyer I can tell him that he is still young at the bar. Even before the advent of any media, the NPP goes down in history as the party that has attacked the Judiciary the more. Nana Akufo-Addo as ranking member of the constitutional legal and Parliamentary Affairs Committee of Parliament attacked the judiciary in decisions that were not in the favour of the NPP. His comment lacks evidence,” Inusah Fuseini told Kaakyire Ofori Ayim.
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