Dear Comrade Jerry John Rawlings, just four years after your return to the Kingdom of The Lord Our Redeemer, the ordinary adult Ghanaian who knew the wonders of your hands as the Chairman of the 31 December Revolution under the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) and as the President who led our dear nation in the glorious period of the Fourth Republic of Ghana with the 1992 Constitution which survives thirty-one years on, already miss you.Every day things are getting worse for the ordinary person in the street despite the foundation of service you inculcated in the body politic as Chairman and the first President of the Fourth Republic you birthed with your blood as ink in signing the original 1992 Constitutional document after the referendum ushered it into existence.The 1992 Constitution signed with your blood and bequeathed to the ordinary Ghanaian for whom you dedicated your life continues to be raped and defiled by the greedy and shameless political elite in association with the emerging deep state, the arrogant Ghanaian comprador bourgeoisie and looters of the national exchequer through subterfuges with the institutional apparatus of state enjoined under your Constitution to guard the national resources for the ordinary people whom you humbly served until your last breath.The Late Jerry John Rawlings passed away 4 years agoComrade Rawlings, the judiciary you fought hard to build by respecting the decisions of the Supreme Court and the other courts is now perceived to have declined in the rating of independence and impartiality by about a whopping 30% between 2017 and 2023 using the measuring indicators of judicial impartiality premised on factors such as the independence of the courts, autonomy of judges, and judicial appointments.
I remember how you avoided dealing directly with the Chief Justices who served under you during your tenure with the respected PNDC Member, Justice D.
F.
Annan, a retired Justice of the Court of Appeal, who later became the first Speaker of Parliament of the Fourth Republic, dreading any interference with the judiciary.