Private legal practitioner Martin Kpebu has called for a review of how the justices of the apex court are appointed.
Kpebu noted that both the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) appoint their friends to the Supreme Court whenever they are in government.
To that end, he said, the justices end up making decisions that reflect the philosophy of the appointors. "We should look at how they are appointed because the President chooses people who reflect his stock… It is not only NPP, NDC when they are in government they choose their friends to the Supreme court," he said on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, November 16 when commenting on the Supreme Court decision to declare the action of Speaker of Parliament Alban Bagbin to declare four seats vacant as unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court has ruled that a seat in parliament can only be vacated if the lawmaker has a switched political party.