{"id":17681,"date":"2026-09-03T11:40:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17681"},"modified":"2026-09-03T11:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T11:40:58","slug":"chief-justice-should-avoid-partisan-political-arena-prof-kwaku-asare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=17681","title":{"rendered":"Chief Justice should avoid partisan political arena \u2013 Prof Kwaku Asare"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian legal scholar Prof Kwaku Asare has cautioned Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie against making public comments that could be interpreted as partisan\u00a0\u00a0political<\/span><\/a>\u00a0assessments, following his remarks about the performance of state institutions under the current administration.<\/p>\n

Prof Asare said although he understood the sentiment behind the Chief Justice\u2019s comments, the reference to \u201cthe past eight years\u201d carried an unmistakable political meaning in Ghana\u2019s political discourse.<\/p>\n

He argued that such language, coming from the head of the Judiciary, could be interpreted as an assessment of one political administration against another and therefore risk undermining public confidence in judicial independence.<\/p>\n

The Chief Justice, during a visit to the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) on Wednesday, September 2, praised the performance of MIIF and other state institutions.<\/p>\n

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Ghanaian legal scholar Prof Kwaku Asare has cautioned Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie against making public comments that could be interpreted as partisan\u00a0\u00a0political<\/span><\/a>\u00a0assessments, following his remarks about the performance of state institutions under the current administration.<\/p>\n

Prof Asare said although he understood the sentiment behind the Chief Justice\u2019s comments, the reference to \u201cthe past eight years\u201d carried an unmistakable political meaning in Ghana\u2019s political discourse.<\/p>\n

He argued that such language, coming from the head of the Judiciary, could be interpreted as an assessment of one political administration against another and therefore risk undermining public confidence in judicial independence.<\/p>\n

The Chief Justice, during a visit to the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) on Wednesday, September 2, praised the performance of MIIF and other state institutions.<\/p>\n

He said some of the developments he had witnessed had left him wondering what Ghana had been doing over the previous eight years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI must congratulate you. I mean, you have done marvellously well. See, because sometimes when we hear the things that you have done, the things that some organisations are doing now, we wonder; some of us keep wondering what really we have been doing in the past eight years,\u201d Justice Baffoe-Bonnie said.<\/p>\n

He made the comments after visiting the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT), where he said he had also been impressed by what he was told about the institution\u2019s performance.<\/p>\n

Comparing the situation to previous plans to dispose of some SSNIT assets, including Labadi Beach Hotel, the Chief Justice said: \u201cIf you compare that to the fact that not too long ago, SSNIT was preparing to sell its prized assets like Labadi Beach Hotel, you wonder how Ghana could have sunk so low.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prof Asare said the expectation of judicial restraint should complement demands on politicians to respect the independence of the Judiciary.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe rightly insist that politicians respect judicial independence and stay out of the judicial arena. The obligation is reciprocal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cJudges, particularly the Chief Justice, must also exercise the restraint necessary to stay out of the partisan political arena.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ghanaian legal scholar Prof Kwaku Asare has cautioned Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie against making public comments that could be interpreted as partisan\u00a0\u00a0political\u00a0assessments, following his remarks about the performance of state institutions under the current administration. Prof Asare said although he understood the sentiment behind the Chief Justice\u2019s comments, the reference to \u201cthe past eight years\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":17682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,3718,18],"tags":[3719,3017],"class_list":["post-17681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-legal","category-politics","tag-justice-baffoe-bonnie","tag-prof-kwaku-asare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17684,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions\/17684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}