Renowned US-based Ghanaian lawyer and scholar Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, widely known as Kwaku Azar, has justified the decision of the Attorney General and Minister of Justice to discontinue the cases of former President John Dramani Mahama appointees and political activists who were being prosecuted by the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government.
In a Facebook post on January 29, 2025, Kwaku Azar argued that the discontinuation of the cases should not be viewed solely through a political lens.
He said that the "legal and procedural realities that have shaped these cases" should be examined before the AG's actions can be judged.
He then proceeded to give reasons the AG's decision was right, including, "the passage of time and the integrity of prosecutions." The academic explained that the cases in question could not have continued because they had been in court for so long. "Each of these cases has been in the judicial system for at least seven years.
