The process for appointing a Chief Justice in Ghana should be improved, private legal practitioner\u00a0 Kofi Bentil has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He agreed with a suggestion by Founding President of policy think tank, Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe that Ghana must emulate the practice in Kenya in the appointment of a Chief Justice.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Mr Cudjoe had indicated that in Kenya, the candidates are interviewed live on television by the Judicial Service Commission for the whole world to observe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The successful candidate is then presented to Parliament for vetting and subsequently the President appoints the person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But in Ghana, the president nominates the person for Parliamentary vetting and subsequently, approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On May 24, Ghana\u2019s Justice Anin Yeboah will be retiring upon attaining the age of 70.<\/p>\n\n\n\n President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is expected to nominate another person for vetting and Parliamentary approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Commenting on this on Facebook,\u00a0 Mr Franklin Cudjoe said \u201cthe Kenyan Judicial Service Commission conducts live interviews on TV in search of a new Chief Justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe successful candidate is then presented to Parliament for vetting and subsequent appointment by the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWe should do same in Ghana.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Reacting to this comment, Mr Bentil who is also Vice President of Imani Africa said \u201cSo it\u2019s not a strange animal. I definitely think it\u2019s better than our system. The process for appointing a Chief Justice in Ghana should be improved, private legal practitioner\u00a0 Kofi Bentil has said. He agreed with a suggestion by Founding President of policy think tank, Imani Africa, Franklin Cudjoe that Ghana must emulate the practice in Kenya in the appointment of a Chief Justice. Mr Cudjoe had indicated that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[1648,9951,13052,8299,5847,11746,2437,5468,7668,192,4894,7667,10419,1063,11664,7851,1198,3805,2802,3954,36,594],"class_list":["post-32033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-africa","tag-age","tag-akufo","tag-animal","tag-anin-yeboah","tag-appointment","tag-chief-justice","tag-facebook","tag-franklin-cudjoe","tag-ghana","tag-imani","tag-imani-africa","tag-justice","tag-kenya","tag-kofi-bentil","tag-legal-practitioner","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-vice-president","tag-will","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
We should improve things..\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"