Beyond personal and commercial disputes, Ghana faces an urgent national imperative to deliver swift justice in cases of corruption and looting, a private legal practitioner Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare has said.
Prof Asare states that there is a widespread belief that the nation's resources have been plundered, and this perception undermines faith in democracy and governance.
To that end, he says, accountability demands that those who have looted public funds face justice, yet the current system, bogged down by endless adjournments and frivolous interlocutory appeals, is often weaponized to frustrate prosecutions. "A judicial system that enables such delays is not merely inefficient; it actively erodes public trust and emboldens impunity," he said. "The transition to a fast justice system is not just about efficiency; it is about restoring faith in the rule of law, reinforcing democratic stability, and ensuring that accountability is not lost in procedural gymnastics," he wrote on Facebook while making a case for speedy trials in Ghana's courts.
He argued that slow justice is a silent killer, suffocates accountability, erodes justice, and weakens democracy.
