Former Special Prosecutor, , has urged the Speaker of Parliament, , to comply fully with the Supreme Court's recent decision, which overturned his declaration of four parliamentary seats as vacant.
In a statement issued on October 31, he explained that the Speaker has a constitutional obligation to respect the Supreme Court as the final arbiter between the state and citizens.
questioned why the Speaker, who oversaw the approval and appointment of Supreme Court justices, would now cast doubt on their competence or integrity based on previous political affiliations. "I found it interesting that in Ghana, the Speaker of Parliament with a well-known political affiliation who presided over the approval of members of the Supreme Court and recommended them for appointment will turn round to question the competence or integrity of any of the justices merely on the grounds of former political party affiliation without further proof of real likelihood of bias after the assumption of office of the justice.
It is one thing criticizing the nomination of a person to the Supreme Court so that Parliament may consider the criticism in the approval process and another thing after Parliament has in a bipartisan manner approved and recommended the person for appointment and the appointment has been consummated to allege bias in a pending case without any shred of evidence," he stated.