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CHEAP JUSTICE? – Occasional Kwatriot Kwesi Yankah writes
With Chief Justice Baffoe-Bonnie, I knew he was courting trouble when, soon after his big appointment in 2025, he was ‘caught’ at a thanksgiving church service making merry and dancing like a mortal: waistline liberated, hands mid-air, singing joyously, and virtually lost in merriment.
In 2025, Baffoe came under close scrutiny on his appointment as Chief Justice to replace Ghana’s third female CJ (Torkonoo), who had been unfairly removed.
The incident was without precedent and courted anger and shock across the landscape: a rude awakening that Ghana’s scale of justice had been vandalised by the Chief himself, who then loses any moral authority to lead an independent judiciary.
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