Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi
Retired Supreme Court judge, Justice William Atuguba, has praised the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Asante Akim North, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, for his professionalism as a lawyer and impartiality.
According to Justice Atuguba, even though he is an ardent member of the NPP, the Asante Akim North legislator makes legal considerations and decisions devoid of political sentiment or influence.
The retired Supreme Court judge, who made these remarks during an interview on JoyNews on November 12, 2024, said that Appiah-Kubi and the late Anthony Akoto Ampaw, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s lawyer during the 2020 election petition, are the two politicians in the country he would have made Supreme Court justices if he could.
He added that these two men have taken positions on issues of national importance that do not align with the interests of their political party.
“It’s not everybody who has been involved in politics who can be necessarily politically minded. I am speaking for myself. Somebody like the late Akoto Ampaw of blessed memory, I can say that as far as I’m concerned, even though he was in the president’s chambers, he was his lawyer in the election petition 2020. If I had my way and that man was interested in going to the Supreme Court, I would have appointed him because if a legal issue arises, he will look at it professionally. You can trust Akoto Ampaw to do that.
“There’s another lawyer, currently he’s a Member of Parliament. I’ve never known him, I’ve never seen him except on social media. Appiah-Kubi … such a person, if I had my way and he was interested in the Supreme Court, I would put him there because he’s a brass stack NPP but very objective-minded; very, very objective,” he said.
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