The no-love-lost relationship between the Judiciary and the PNDC/NDC is steeped in our post independence history.
Put alternatively ‘the NDC loves to hate the judiciary and would have rather the kangaroo courts of the Gondar barracks era persisted.
Unfortunately for this offspring of the bloody junta the good people fed up with military rules insisted on democracy.
The chequered history of the judiciary started the arbitrary dismissal of Sir Arku Korsah as the first Chief Justice of post-independence Ghana.
If the coup of February 24 1966 was regarded as an end to our woes we were to be proven wrong when the mother of all persecutions against the judiciary was executed by the forebears of the NDC the bloodiest junta in our post-independence chronicles.
Three high court judges and a retired Army Major were abducted and murdered in cold blood.
That date in history is marked by the judiciary as Martyrs Day.
On June 30, 1982, three High Court Justices, Frederick Poku Sarkodee, Cecilia Koranteng-Addow, and Kwadwo Agyei Agyepong, along with a retired army officer, Major Sam Acquah, were abducted and murdered, becoming known as the “Martyrs of the Rule of Law”.
The NDC continues to plot against the judiciary and by extension the rule of law.
There appears to be no end in sight for the palpable hatred of the NDC against the judiciary as the John Mahama locks its sight on the third female chief justice of the Republic of Ghana.
As the plot thickens many with a sense of history are unable to resist recalling the murder of the three high court justices.
The hatred of the judiciary by the NDC was earlier characterized by image-denting name-calling such as Unanimous SC among us.
When during his campaign rounds President John Mahama sloganeered a reset agenda little did some Ghanaians know it was retrogression mission of dismissals from work involving of all grades of workers from clerks to the Chief Justice.
The carefully planned plot is unsurprising the subtle message to do so clad in the President’s body language before Her Ladyship sworn him in as President.
The rule of law physically embodied in the judiciary is under siege as President Mahama is piling up pressure to sack the Chief Justice.
Purging the judiciary is an important segment of the reset agenda of President Mahama having earlier frowned upon what he described as the packing of the bench by President Akufo-Addo.
Let all lovers of democracy show concern about the unfolding agenda which portentous as stands send the clock of state several hours back.
As a dangerous precedence, a future NPP could also decide to undo the damage. What becomes of our country which then becomes a derisionable entity.
The coming days will be interesting as the political drama being played out redefines our democracy.
When the democracy we struggled to establish is fractured through an executive cantankerousness such as being played out the rule of law would have lost its stoicism paving the way for President Mahama to become a full-fledged dictator.
We don’t want our dear country to be reduced to such a political entity.
