The Vice President of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has criticized the John Mahama administration's decision to appoint a new Inspector General of Police (IGP) while a Supreme Court ruling on the removal of the former IGP is pending.
He holds the view that President Mahama's decision to remove Dr.
George Akuffo Dampare as IGP and replace him with COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno is wrong, describing it as contemptuous of the Supreme Court.
In an interview on Joy FM on Friday, March 14, Kofi Bentil said the legal principle is unambiguous: it is illegal and disreputable to take any action that compromises or nullifies the court's ruling while a case is pending. "When a case is before a court, it is contemptuous of the court for anybody to take an action that overreaches the court. … What it means is simply that you don't do anything to make nonsense of a court ruling when it is imminent. "Now, the action, therefore, of the executive is contemptuous of the highest court of this land because, for about a year now, a case has been filed before they came into office," myjoyonline.com quotes him as saying.
