An application that sought to prevent an Accra High Court judge from hearing the disqualification case brought against Ghana’s Electoral Commission (EC) by the National Democratic Party has been dismissed. The EC applied to the Court to disqualify the presiding judge, Justice Eric Kyei Baffour, from hearing the case on grounds that the judge in … Read more
There were fireworks at the High Court as two lawyers battled it out over whether or not a judge could sit on a matter after he dismissed another case of similar facts. The case is seeking to reverse the Electoral Commission’s disqualification of former first Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings from contesting for President in next … Read more
A former chief investigator at the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) says once the Commission found president John Mahama guilty of breaching the gift policy, it ought to have been “braver and courageous” in finding him guilty of breaching the conflict of interest law. Prof Ken Attafuah cannot comprehend how the Commission … Read more
The leader of the Majority in Parliament, Alban Bagbin, has dismissed claims that the President compromised his integrity by accepting the Ford gift from the Burkinabe contractor, Djibril Kanazoe. Bagbin insisted that the president’s acceptance of the gift did not constitute conflict of interest and rubbished the claims that the gift was meant to influence … Read more