Anti-corruption campaigner and former Auditor General Daniel Yaw Domelevo has said that he has lost trust in the ability of the Judiciary to dispense justice.
He stated that the actions and inactions of the judiciary leave much to be desired. It is therefore incumbent on Ghanaians, he urged, to work to ensure that the judiciary wakes up from its slumber and get back to being able to work to ensure that every citizen is able to get justice.
‘A lot leaves to desired of the Judiciary. They may have to stand up because they are not looking good as it is now. I for one, if you hit me, I will hit you back because I don’t trust the Court system. If I will not hit you back, then I will give it to God and say,” God, give me credit because I didn’t hit him back… because I can’t believe in going to Court to get justice.
And sadly, the higher you go the ladder, the worse it becomes. I thought going up the ladder should rather give us better justice. But the up you go…you know what it is. So, I think we have to ensure that we get the judiciary to wake up because they have a very important role to play,” he said at the ceremony Thursday September 21, 2023.
Daniel Yaw Domelevo was in 2020 ordered by President Akufo-Addo to proceed on compulsory accumulated leave of 169 working days. This was construed as a constructive dismissal by the President given that by time the forced leave was going to be over, Mr Domelevo would have turned 60 and would be unable to assume his post again.
Some nine civil society organizations, led by the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana) went to Court on the matter. But by the time the Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that the President had acted unconstitutionally and his order to Mr Domelevo was unconstitutional, null and void, it was already two years and Mr Domelevo had only won a pyrrhic victory since it could not resume his position as Auditor General.
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