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Chief Justice: We will purge the service of “bad nuts”

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  • CHA 9 years ago

    Enough of the talking, we need action

  • Prof Lungu 9 years ago

    Action!

  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    If J.B Danquah hadn't been born at all patriotic Ghanaians would've still overthrow Nkrumah with or without the help of CIA because, his leftist tendencies had reached a point of no return. The guy was a red sickle communist ...
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  • Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

    Oh yes, Brother Mahmoud. And when we keep cursing the day that the CORRUPT and COMMUNIST TYRRANT KWAME NKRUMAH came into the scene, we all start to blame the late Ako Adjei for being our biggest headache.

    Some of his Manuf ...
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  • Oristo 9 years ago

    you know what to do, but you know, you wont do it. You are saying it for the occasion.

  • NO NONSENSE TAKER 9 years ago

    Under Pepeni's watch, the Chief justice could also record no peace, stability, security and sustainable development. It is true that, Pepeni have abrogated the rule of law because, they can't accept one and also, it is imposs ...
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  • Saint Ghfuo: nyantakyi must die! 9 years ago

    SHUT UP! YA TEAA ABR3!

  • OLD SOLDIER 9 years ago

    Author:-PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE)...

    DR. BAWUMIA:-----------
    “In the last six years, the NDC has borrowed US$27 billion. Before that, we, the NPP, borrowed a total of US$5.5 billion in eight years. Compare that to the ...
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  • Jonas Kwaku Bilson 9 years ago

    Starling is a bird by the way. Your sheer ignorance is monumental.

  • Aikins 9 years ago

    This lady is really hurt, since after the election petition she has come out with this bad nuts issue. Well your colleagues Atuguba and the rest who sat on the panel are all millionaires ni dollars already, you can go ahead a ...
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  • Red Eye 9 years ago

    Madam Chief Justice, I hope you are not pretending not to know the Juduciary in Ghana is corrupt?. Pointer - Go to Tema High Court Land division and count how many sitting Judges has been transferred in the middle of cases. a ...
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  • Farley 9 years ago

    And I will gladly ask the CJ why she recused herself in the landmark case of the century - The Eclection case
    I will argue that her recusal and the appointment of the membership smacks of her corruption

  • Kb 9 years ago

    Call for anon Whistleblowers and set up a reporting buro to Register the malfaiteurs in the Service. The mere fact of registrtion should deter most but the very obvious and hardened criminals in the System,those you should h ...
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  • Ghanaman 9 years ago

    This timber woman is another Mahama, making wild promises.

  • Close Observer 9 years ago

    GHANAIANS have given 26 years out of the country's 58 years to the NDC PARTY. We have seen nothing, but USELESS RULE. VOTE THEM OUT IN 2016

    YOU DON'T WANT PEOPLE WHO HAVE PLANS TO BANK MILLIONS OF DOLLARS BEFORE THEY QUIT ...
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  • Prah, Cape Coast 9 years ago

    Only I your stupid dreams can you continue counting I hallucination. At any point in time NDC has better proven track record than NPP. List the achievements of NPP over 8 years reign and let me list NDC's 2 years' achievement ...
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  • adex 9 years ago

    Double dealing with his own clients against perpetrators perhaps to maximise his income. Well well he may be now on his last legs. We all get what we deserve on earth before we die so given the fact that some people are lawye ...
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  • Prof Lungu 9 years ago

    Kwesi Pratt said the other day Ghanaian officials only love to talk a good game. We will add that when they do, they come to the table with didly squat fact, or actionable data.

    Here was the Interior Minister asking that m ...
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  • Mahmoud 9 years ago

    Author: Kafui Ama
    Date: 2009-07-23 01:44:06

    Please be patient and read this to the end.


    By Craig Murray, former Deputy British High Commisssioner to Ghana | Posted: Tuesday, January 20, 2009

    ... It was Novembe ...
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  • tuy 9 years ago

    Every judge in Ghana is weak and bribable. This includes the chief justice herself. Ever since Rawlings rounded up and summarily executed the three high court judges in 1982, judges in Ghana have been cowered into submission. ...
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  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS HIPOCRATE CHIEF JUSTICE

  • Pelicles 9 years ago

    Madam, do you need someone to tell you how corrupt the Judiciary is? Imagine a judiciary with someone like Kpegah. That alone is a sign of how tasteless our judiciary is.

  • Francis C. Quainoo 9 years ago

    Hey, Pelicles my man. Please I wish you stay away from Francis KPEGAH since he is equal to Murderer Rawlings as AYIGBE TIN GODS.

    This is because I recently listed a whole lists of past activities of Francis KPEGAH only to ...
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  • Criminal mahama. 9 years ago

    Fuck you bich.

  • Alicia 9 years ago

    Hope that is true.

  • GHANAVIA 9 years ago

    Start the purge now from top down.
    The ilks of Justice William Atuguba is inimical for the survival of the Judiciary as an Institution of Justice.

  • BP 9 years ago

    Judicial Service is the root of Corruption in Ghana. Without a corrupt staff, nobody would dare to compromise them. Corruption is real in the Judicial Service.

  • BILLYBILLY 9 years ago

    WORST THIEVES WHO ARE/WERE LAWYERS, BETTY MOULD, BARTON ODRO, ATTA MILLS AND ALL NDC LAWYERS....REAL THIEVES WHO HAVE IMPOVERISHED GHANA

  • Lawyer 9 years ago

    CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME. I am happy about the advice given to your staff TO HELP RE-ESTABLISH THE IMAGE OF THE JUDICIARY DEVOID OF CORRUPTION.

    Madam: If YOU talk to your colleagues, including JUSTICE ATUGUBA AND THE EIGHT J ...
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  • koffi parker 9 years ago

    it will continue to rot, A fish rot from the head so madam chief /j/ustice please direct and chose another forum to the head not the tail; thanks

  • STEVE 9 years ago

    I wonder why the CJ is now out to condemm corruption in the judiciary. How did she become the CJ of the land? It was through corruption. Kuffuor promoted her to the status of a CJ to cover up their corrupt deeds, and that in ...
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  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    YES I AGREE WITH YOU THAT THE WORST FORM OF CORRAPTION IS JUDICIAL CORRUPTION. CHIEF JUSTICE YOU`RE AWARE OF THIS FILE AND CIRCUIT COURT COCOA AFFAIRS ISSUED A BENCH WARRANT FOR ARREST OF CULPRIT PAUL AGYAPONG STILL OUTSTANDI ...
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  • ANABA 9 years ago

    STUPID COMMENT.BLAME USELESS NDC GOVT.

  • ibn abudu @ Canadasheabutter (GhUWR) 9 years ago

    As a pillar of every government in the world , your independence & speedy execution of your constitutional duties irrespective of favoritism should be noble price.

    Ask your damaged CHIEF JUSTICE HOW A COURT ISSUE A NENCH W ...
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  • Papa yaw 9 years ago

    No

  • peaceful citizen 9 years ago

    Chief Justice, what did you tell Atuguba over his bogos ruling of the election saga which has plunged the nation into such mess? You were part of the scheme.Go way you.

  • Esewani 9 years ago

    THE JUDICIARY SYSTEM DIED ON AUGUST 29TH, 2013 WHEN ATUGUBA AND HIS COHORTS TOOK BRIBES FROM MAHAMA AND THE NDC TO DECLARE MAHAMA AS THE CREIDBLE WINNER OF THE 2012 ELECTIONS. HOW CAN ONE TRUST THE SYSTEM AFTER WHAT HAPPENED ...
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  • Mpata 9 years ago

    Please pay personal visits to the Tema and Nungua courts to find how simple cases have been adjourned over and over with no tangible reason. This is not justice. Please start with the judges. Thank You.

  • Jonas Kwaku Bilson 9 years ago

    You are right, it is time. Actually the time is long overdue to kick every single one of you out and hire or rent European judges, court clerks and other officials. It is the only way for black Africans are NOT CAPABLE of adm ...
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  • if the lone crusader 9 years ago

    Maame call on your judges to refrain bribes and sit up and also to be content with their wages or attach farming to their profession.you should know the real judgement awaits all even you so lets think a little ghana

  • Henry 9 years ago

    Purge yourself first.You accepted & paid for part of the looted State lands from Kuffour.The very first day you agreed to relinquish the said land after public out cry was the very day you should have resigned.That would have ...
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  • ANABA 9 years ago

    NPP WON THE ELECTIONS BUT INSPITE OF ALL THE GLARING EVIDENCE YOU DECLARED NDC WINNER.WHY WILL THE DEPT NOT BE PERCEIVED AS CORRUPT.?

  • ugly akufo addo 9 years ago

    he has no sense

  • Prah, Cape Coast 9 years ago

    Corruption and embezzlement can only occur and recur in a country where the judiciary is corrupt. In Ghana, any study that do not find the judiciary as the most corrupt institution does not follow a scientific approach! Corru ...
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  • BUSH MEAT 9 years ago

    Madam, no judge in Ghana is honest and hard working as stated in your speech.All of them are corrupt from supreme to magestrate court.

  • 0265217070 9 years ago

    Do you know anybody in Accra in need of a job? Or even you, yourself

    There are over 200 vacancies available for Sales Reps for a reputable Insurance Co, even if you don't need the job, you definitely know someone who does ...
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  • Papa 9 years ago

    CORRUPTION IN THE JUDICIARY IS NOT A PERCEPTION IT IS A DAILY REALITY. SOME OF THE HIGH COURT JUDGES ARE THE WORST CRIMINALS MANIPULATING THE SYSTEM WITH ADJOURNMENTS AND MAKING AND BEHAVING IN WAYS THAT EVEN A BLIND AND DEAF ...
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  • Y.Y 9 years ago

    She better do oooo.. it is rotten. Offfering services without receipts and they are bold enough to tell you that if they give you a receipt it will not cover the whole expense. Then they will be asking for gifts again. I expe ...
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  • YEBOAH 9 years ago

    Look at her face. It is only in Ghana that this hopeless thief will still be in such a sensitive after conniving with Kufour to stal and loot government lands.She should purge herself first. Donkeys are the law of this countr ...
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  • TRUTH 9 years ago

    Yes clean the system. The corruption has reached absurd levels

  • Yaw 9 years ago

    Start with Atuguba. He took bribe.

  • KBK 9 years ago

    U ar among of them so do not blame any body from mahama to down all de same.

  • EDUARDO DOMINGO 9 years ago

    THANK YOU MADAM CHIEF JUSTICE , THIS FEELS LIKE FRESH AIR, BUT YOU HAVE NO IDEA , HOW MUCH SOME JUDGES HAVE TURNED YOUR COURT TO MEAT MARKET!!

  • Kwame 9 years ago

    Bad joke who does she is kidding. There is an on going case between the same family for more than 10 years without resolution because the lawyers and judge always find a reason to adjourn the case.10 years. 10 years I believ ...
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  • BENONY TONY AMEKUDZI, ESQ> 9 years ago

    DEAR HER LADYSHIP CHIEF JUSTICE OF GHANA GEORGINA THEODORA WOOD AND THE READING PUBLIC OF GHANAWEB.COM,

    IT IS A TRUE STATEMENT OF FACT THAT THERE SHOULD BE TRANSPARENCY AND INTEGRITY TO BE PROTECTED AND PROMOTED IN THE JUD ...
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