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Chief Justice cries over corruption

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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-facts...
    What will sam George say of CJA? A group of hooligans gathered to disturb public peace only when it is to the favour of their party NDC. Insulting, abusing and attacking anyone anywhere to satisfy NDC requi ...
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  • BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 9 years ago

    MADAM CHIEF JUSTICE BLAME THESE GRREDY BASTARDS! IN JUST 6YRS IN OFFICE THOSE NEVER WORKED BEFORE IN THEIR ENTIRE LIFE ARE NOW BILLIONEERS,!! IF FIIFI KWETEY, OFOSU KWAKYE, JOHN JINAPOR, MURTALA MOHAMED, OKUJETO ABLAKWA, SAM ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    When Kwaku Baako informed us about the atrocities of Kwesi Pratt during PNDC Regime, some of us did not believe until the truth was confirmed during the NRC. Kwesi Pratt is the most dangerous Journalist Ghana had ever have, h ...
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  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE) 9 years ago

    WE KNOW ONLY TWO NAMES, NANA ADDO & BAWUMIA. NANA'S LEADERSHIP WITH BAWUMIA IS EXCELLENT. NANA IS OUR POLITICAL MESSIAH!! WE WILL PATIENTLY WAIT FOR HIM TO COME AND LIBERATE US FROM OUR ECONOMIC OPPRESSORS.WE CAN'T PUT OUR TR ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: Nyantakyi Must Die! 9 years ago

    Chief Justice, Have you no bite?
    Do we need to bring Margaret Thatcher or even Janet Reno, Yaa Asantewaa to rid Ghana of corruption, then? What use are you madam cj? Don't just sit there looking tlike a thanksgiving turkey o ...
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  • KWAA 9 years ago

    We all know corruption in this Country is hard to fight,but this Mahama Government has made it impossible to tackle.Because the Government itself stinks with corruption from head to toe.Because Government officials,ministers, ...
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  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Source: Daily Guide...

    All of a sudden nonentities want to portray to the world how close they were to the late President.

    Those who had to chat with him for one hour everyday, those Deputy Ministers who had to call h ...
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  • Afrifa 9 years ago

    We shall overcome

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-OYOKOBA...

    Asiedu Nketia is just one annoying billy goat. He thinks he is slick and the smartest person in Ghana, when in real fact he is a thieving mosquito. What was he doing there anyway? Is he a cabinet minist ...
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  • Johnny 9 years ago

    I suspect this Chief Justice was not living on this planet,probably she was on the moon or Pluto.Anyway can she tell us how got that job did anybody lobby for her to be a Chief Justice?

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    BBC NEWS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHERE DID GHANAIANS GO WRONG TO SUFFER LIKE THIS? YOU MAHAMA BUILDING YOUR HOTELS ABROAD, AFRIYIE ANKRA BUYING MANSIONS AT EAST LEGON, OKUDJETO ACQUIRING FILLING STATIONS ALL OVER, TOGBUI AF ...
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  • DUKE 9 years ago

    Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013

    1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brother of the current President of Ghana. Only Ghanaian to own a private jet.

    2. Alfred Mahama -$1.3 billion./ Businessman, brother ...
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  • KANAWU 9 years ago

    THIS WHAT YOU THE CORRUPT JUSTICES GAVE GHANA WHEN YOU DECLARED MAHAMA AS THE WINNER WHEN Y'ALL KNEW DEFINITELY THAT HE STOLE THE BALLOT WITH THE EVIL OLD MAN AFARI GYAN.

  • Kempes 9 years ago

    the judiciary is the most corrupt in the country. That is the reason why there is corruption everywhere because the laws are not enforced.

  • Yaw 9 years ago

    The Ghanaian is simply not an intelligent BREED, I just even hate to see them in this coat, suite and tie. Over 50yrs of self- determination we still talk of lack of skills, lack of productivity , high level corruption, I mea ...
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  • DOGON YARO 9 years ago

    Why WOYOME still free

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Capitalism is a corrupt socioeconomic system. U.S. and NATO remain the most corrupt systems in the world. It is also corruption when your shout that there is corruption in the country just because your political party is not ...
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  • TT 9 years ago

    The Judiciary is corrupt hence the country you are sitting on the most corrupt judiciary in the history if this country when justice is bought and sold. We are all witnesses to unprecedented bad judgements under your watch w ...
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  • United Ghana 9 years ago

    Couldn't agree more. The question is; Georgina Wood what are you doing about corruption in the judiciary? You talk the talk but not walk the walk

  • Douglas . Bristol-UK 9 years ago

    Ghana is corrupt because of Akufo addo and his bunch of criminals called Npp. thanks to JDM Ghana will soon finish overhauling the engine of corrupt Ghanaians (Npp) so that it be a new Ghana again

  • Abugre Yahaya 9 years ago

    Madam Chief Justice, I am worried and ashamed to hear you talking and talking about corruption. Do you have to talk for us to know that you are a Chief Justice or your duty is to ENFORCE the laws to deal with corruption? A wh ...
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  • Nii 9 years ago

    The judiciary is not there to enforce the law. The judiciary adjudicates issues. The judiciary can only deal with issues brought before it. It cannot on its own take up issues. Parliament makes laws. The judiciary adjudi ...
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  • United Ghana 9 years ago

    They may only adjudicate on matters brought before them nevertheless they have reached some dubious decisions on numerous occasions

  • MARCUS 9 years ago

    HMMM,A COUNTRY OF RELIGIOUS PEOPLE.S

  • Marquis 9 years ago

    Clean the Judiciary first for the judges to be resolute with their judgements. They are easily corrupted. Our courts are cash cows reason why cases take too long.

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

    THE CHIEF JUSTICE IS RIGHT TO FEEL THIS WAY AND MORE! BUT HER OFFICE HAS A LOT OF WORK TO DO , TO CHALLENGE THIS TROUBLE! FOR INSTANCE THE CHIEF JUSTICE MUST GIVE STERN WARNING TO JUDGES WHO HELP TO COLLECT MONIES FROM PAYMEN ...
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  • Neutral Zone 9 years ago

    Start by looking in the mirror.

  • BILLYBILLY 9 years ago

    presidents brother buys two private jets but seeks the same president to intervene in his plea to default paying MERCHANT BANK LOAN...THIS PLUS OTHER CUSTOMERS WHO FOLLOWED HIS DEFAULT LED TO COLLAPSE OF MERCHANT BANK WHICH W ...
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  • EZEKIEL 9 years ago

    EVERYBODY is talking about Corruption......WHY is apparently NOTHING being done ?????

  • DOPE BOBA 9 years ago

    WHO WILL BELL THE CAT?

  • Nana takyi mensah 9 years ago

    Please come back again cj, ur high offices are the ones that punished innocent people who reported corrupt officers of state what was ur contributions,stop the crocodile tears,it starts with ur big wigs if u are able to openl ...
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  • Babylon 9 years ago

    Madam justice, get off your aas and administer justice to those greedy bastards so Ghanaians can be free.

  • KYEBI Advocate 9 years ago

    Indeed this AG is been blinded and powerless wow how many judgement debts she has collected

  • Fredsaid 9 years ago

    GHANA'S LEADERSHIP SETTING CORRUPTION PACE IN 6 YEARS BECOMING THE RICHEST IN GHANA ACCORDING TO THE RENOWNED 'FORBES'




    Twenty Richest People In Ghana For 2013

    1. Ibrahim Mahama -$1.9 billion /Businessman , Brothe ...
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  • John 9 years ago

    Her Lordship,Georgina Theodora Wood,you have a beautiful name,likewise yourself,a beautiful Mother.As mothers you get worried if your Son or Daughter,has no or cannot afford Food to eat,accommodation to sleep in,cannot afford ...
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  • DOPE BOBA 9 years ago

    shit's hit the fan, WATCH OUT FOR A COUP PRETTY SOON...I hope sooner rather than later so people like JJ and his corrupt govt couldd be line up and SHOT!!! like he did the former heads of state. If the chief justice is saying ...
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  • Okess 9 years ago

    Corruption cannot be eliminated in Africa. We need Judicial and financial systems in place to deter people from engaging in corruption not speeches.

  • Osei Yao 9 years ago

    JUDGES COULD STOP CORRUPTION WITHIN A YEAR IF THEY WERE NOT CORRUPT. LAWYERS OPENLY ASK FOR MONEY FOR TH PRESIDING JUDGE FROM LITIGANTS EVERYTIME A CASE IS CALLED. HE WOULD KNOW IF THE CASE WILL BE POSTPONED. JUDGES DENY JUS ...
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  • CATAPULT 9 years ago

    The Mahama NDC gov't's corruption and looting has clearly passed the tipping point.
    The thievery has completely collapsed the country and Ghana is a goner.

  • EVEN HER LORDSHIP WOOD'S OFFICE 9 years ago

    When my brother was wrongly and illegally dismissed by the Ghana Health Service because he opposed some heinous acts of corruption in Effia Nkwanta hospital killing patients,i got first hands experience of Ghana's corruption ...
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  • Kate 9 years ago

    Even teachers at police school Airport Accra engaged in corrupt practices. They compulsory sell pure water to pupils coerce children to bring gift when celebrating their birth days, collect studies fee when they don't even co ...
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  • HUBERT AKRONG 9 years ago

    BRING BACK THE LAND YOUR PARTY SOLD FRAUDULENTLY TO YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES. AND MAKE SURE YOU CAUSE THEM TO BRING BACK EVERYTHING THEY TOOK INCLUDING THE CUTLERIES. ANYWAY I DON'T KNOW YOUR DEFINITION OF CORRUPTION.

  • BAFFOUR 9 years ago

    MADAM WE LOOK UP TO YOU IN THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION. ORDINARY CITIZENS CANT STOP IT BECAUSE THEY DONT HAVE THE POWER AND ANY MANDATE TO DO SO. BUT MADAM YOU AND YOUR INSTITUTION HAVE THE MANDATE SO WHY BEMOAN? PLEASE A ...
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  • EVANS K. MENSAH GERMANY 9 years ago

    The head of all laws, you need to be strong and think only about the country Ghana , but you are not doing it , corruption Start from your own Office. Clean up must start from your Office, Chief.

  • Mansa\ 9 years ago

    STOP CRYING CJ. JUST EMBARK ON SERIOUS HOUSECLEANING WITHIN THE JUDICIAL SERVICE. PEOPLE WITH CASES AR CHARGED NOT LESS THAN 15GHC TO HAVE LETTERS TYPED. NO RECEIPT! EACH STEP ALONG THE LADDER FOR SEEKING JUSTICE ATTRACTS A B ...
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  • Mahama water in Kyebi 9 years ago

    See who is talking abut corruption whan kufuor said corruption is as old as Adam where were u Twea a

  • Prinz Jnr_Germany 9 years ago

    Aww Mother Ghana!, Is it a curs or what?
    Look at how the leader of the country Mahama ,his brother and the Ministers are loothing the stata asets to enrich themselves...God save Ghana in 2016

  • Bawku Naaba 9 years ago

    But this same woman accepted and purchase prime land at airport meant for the foreign affairs ministry under kufour for a paltry sum of five thousand Ghana cedis what does she call that ? God worshipping I guess

  • Paa Joe 9 years ago

    WHEN A NATION WITH ITS PUBLIC AND MANY PRIVATE UNIVERSITIES,RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND THE SO CALLED EDUCATED FAIL TO APPLY AND USE SCIENTIFIC INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY TO TRANSFORM THE NATION, THE ALTERNATIVE IS,ITS CITIZENS ...
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  • Aikins 9 years ago

    Are you sure you really care? You are the course of all this mess for allowing the corrupt Atuguba to lead those judges at the election petition. God will never forgive you people for what we ghanaian's are going through unde ...
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  • Shangama Highpriest 9 years ago

    everybody is crying 'corruption',but it takes two to tanko , who corrupts who? unless we fix long term jail sentences for all convicted ; but the courts are not cooperative !!! that is where the problem lies

  • Killa 9 years ago

    i'd be a liar if i say there was no corruption during NPP's tenure but under the NDC..it's grown to gargantuan prorportions.....you'd be a liar to say otherwise....

  • The lone prophet of Jehovah 9 years ago

    OUR JUSTICE SYSTEM IS TOO CORRUPT; How can a judge Doris Bempah dismiss an abortion case leading to divorce without hearing the defendant? Abortion is ciminal offence in Ghana according to law.Is this JUSTICE or CORRUPTION?? ...
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