Supreme Court nominee, Justice Kweku T.
Ackaah-Boafo, has strongly condemned mob justice, stressing that no individual or group has the right to take the law into their own hands through lynching, demonstrations, or vigilante acts. "I believe that nobody can use mob justice or demonstrations to resolve a legal matter," he stated during his vetting by Parliament's Appointments Committee on Friday, 20 June.
Responding to a question from the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, on the phenomenon of mob justice and its implications on constitutional governance, Justice Ackaah-Boafo insisted that all legal matters must be addressed through the country's judicial processes as enshrined in the Constitution. "If somebody has done something wrong, the judicial process should be allowed to take its place.
Using mob justice clearly is illegal, and people who engage in it must be dealt with by the law," he argued.
