The Chair of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Council of Elders in South Africa, Mr. Benjamin Kofi Quashie, has weighed in on the Chief Justice petitions and the subsequent committee set up to investigate her matter.
In an interview on Kessben TV, Accra on Thursday, April 24, 2025, Mr. Quashie asserted the Chief Justice ought not to have waited for her matter to get to this level, emphasising that he blames the CJ’s problems “on what he describes as recklessness of former President Nana Akufo-Addo”, he stated.
Further, on the posturing of NPP lawyers since the matter broke, he expressed amazement, describing their posturing as hypocritical. “They should rather go to Nana Akufo-Addo’s house in Nima and tell him his recklessness has brought this”, he stressed, cautioning them to desist from running unnecessary comments on the CJ matter.
In explaining the ‘reckless behaviour’ of Nana Akufo-Addo, he recounted that on May 9, 2018, President Akufo-Addo suspended four high court judges. Again, he sacked Madam Charlotte Osei as EC boss as well as the former Auditor General, Domelevo, under dubious circumstances. “Where were the NPP lawyers now parading themselves as lawyers of conscience, where were they and were their consciences sleeping at the period?”, he quizzed.
The NDC SA Council of Elders Chair reminded the NPP lawyers that when the astute lawyer president was messing up in government, they all sat aloof and cannot complain today. The NDC, according to Quashie, reminded the NPP and Nana Akufo-Addo of setting a bad precedent but all their pleas fell on deaf ears until the effects of their actions have now boomeranged on them.
Curiously, he indicated that the rulings of the Supreme Court (SC) were too predictable, arguing that this is the result of President Akufo-Addo packing the SC bench with his cronies.
Mr Quashie emphatically averred that he believes the whole SC bench should be cleared, suggesting the SC has become an albatross on the neck of Ghanaians.
“If Akufo-Addo did no wrong in appointing that number to the bench, then, there is nothing wrong if President Mahama decides to sack them”, he stressed.
Mr Quashie highlighted President Mahama’s actions about the petition were in tandem with the laws of Ghana.
