Renowned US-based Ghanaian lawyer and scholar, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, popularly known as Kwaku Azar, has bemoaned the huge salaries and benefits paid to top public office holders in Ghana.
In a write-up shared on social media on May 20, 2025, Kwaku Azar questioned why a country with so many problems would be giving huge sums of money in benefits to "elite office holders - especially those at the pinnacle of our judiciary." The academic cited the remuneration of a Justice of the Court of Appeal as an example of the "gilded benefits" of elite public office holders that must be re-examined.
He said that Court of Appeal judges currently earn GH¢62,000 per month as salaries, aside from the other monthly benefits they enjoy. "Take the case of a Justice of the Court of Appeal.
Under current arrangements, a justice who retires after 25 years of service on the Superior Court of Judicature receives a retirement package that is nothing short of extraordinary. "Let's do the mathematics.
