Too Wise To Be Tamed: Ghanaians React As Oliver Baker And Kwaku Azar Descends On Supreme Court

Ghanaians have fallen in love with the provable knowledge from professor Kwaku Azar and the support from Oliver Baker-Vormawor convenor of the fix the country movement.

They [Ghanaians] have reacted to the write-up up from Kwaku Azar and the support comment from Oliver Baker-Vormawor on Facebook respectively.

Law lecturer Professor Kwaku Asare is widely known as Kwaku Azar with an in-depth knowledge of the Ghanaian constitutional law and how way favorable onward agenda in birthing out a favorable fair judicial system for everyone.

Professor Asare has been a constant commentator on the Ghanaian role of law and the rulings from the supreme court and other judicial deliberations.

He said: The Constitution espouses some important values equal citizenship, checks and balances, separation of powers, freedom of speech, political rights, etc.

It is the courts’ role to protect these values, to act as a sentinel of the fundamental rights, to even the scale of justice, and to serve as a constraint on the abuse of power. 

Needless to say, the constitution’s promises are only as good as the supreme courts enforce them.

That is why we must constantly ask if the courts are performing their normative role or are becoming a convenient device to undermine the very values they are supposed to protect.

No constitutional text, no matter how normative or elegant, is meaningful in the hands of judges who do not understand it or are not keen to enforce it.

If it appears that the executive wields too much power, it is because it enjoys judicial succor.

If it appears that our rights exist only on paper, it is because the watchdog of those rights has fallen asleep on the job. rule of law is not able to lift the law above politics, it is because the politics have been able to co-opt the courts.

Here are randomly selected brilliant reactions from Ghanaians:

• It is also true that at any given time some would hold diverse opinions about our courts and judges. 

• What we pray for are judges whose rulings are not influenced by forces or inducements outside the laws and facts presented in their courts. We need judges who will not be swayed by opinions expressed outside the courtrooms be it on Facebook or some other broadcasts. 

• Opinions will vary at any given point, but a judge’s ruling must be respected at all times- whether favorable or not as expected of all citizens, especially those who understand the place of the law and courts. It is ultra vires for anyone to impugn ill motives out of mere assumptions.

• Take note that if not for anything at all the Anas Aremeyaw Anas documentary about our judges should remind you of how compromised our justice system is. If a mere person like Anas could influence the administration of justice imagine the powers that push them there?

• What will the administration of justice be in the next 10years if what’s happening today becomes the precedence? Can you get a fair trial if you fall into the bad books of the political party in power with this judicial precedence in the next 10years?

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