Private legal practitioner, Maurice Ampaw has said the only policy and program the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has to offer Ghanaians are “insults”.
Speaking on Wontumi TV, lawyer Ampaw stated that aside the “insults” at the disposal of the NDC, what it has next is name calling and bastardizing of state institutions.
His comments stems from the recent outburst by former President John Mahama that President Akufo-Addo had packed the judiciary with lawyers to influence decisions in the favour of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Responding to the comment, lawyer Ampaw stated that “the NDC as a party is made up of a leader who constantly insults the judiciary… Destroying and attacking the image of the judiciary, they have ganged up against the judiciary”.
He specifically named the NDC’s Abraham Amaliba and Sammy Gyamfi who were always ready to insult the Chief Justice after former President Mahama.
He named the NDC as a party that has “attacked every institution” in Ghana.
Former President Mahama has promised ‘NDC lawyers’ to ready themselves to take up positions on the bench to balance out its composition.
“Our lawyers, some of you must be prepared to go onto the bench, I know that some of you have very lucrative legal practices you will not want to leave and go onto the bench”, he said.
According to him “you can see what the current President has done; he appointed the largest number of judges onto the bench. More than 80 towards hundred and counting.
“He’s packed the court and we know that they’ve packed the court because they want to avoid accountability after they have left office.
“So all manner of people who have been known to be partisan, to have been executives of their party who are in the legal profession have been leapfrogged onto the Superior courts and other places.”
However, the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) says comments by John Mahama that the judiciary has been packed with NPP-aligned judges is unfortunate and must be condemned.