Packing the Bench or Resetting: Mahama's 65 judges appointments in 10 months in perspective

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  • JESUS IS GOD 1 month ago

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  • Akweku 1 month ago

    They should jail the NPP thieves

  • THEY SAY YOUR DOCTORATE IS FAKE, PROVE ITS NOT FAKE? 1 month ago

    JM HAS PACKED THE BENCH TO PAVE WAY FOR HIS THIRD TIME BID.

  • Nana 1 month ago

    2nd comings are always dangerous and John Mahama is going to disgrace himself. His records for his 2nd term will be worse than the 1st term.

  • Dan Yaro 1 month ago

    Who do you think will vote for that your kwasea Bawumia? That fool. I will build Toilet at Agbogbloshie

  • Snyder 1 month ago

    Listen to your stupid self, imbecile, klootzak, malaka

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  • Akua pokuaa 1 month ago

    Dan Yaro you called Dr Bawumia kwasiaa right? Dr Bawumia is sensible than your useless and your hopeless father, aboa funuu kwasiaa painn gyemii gyemii can you compare your hopeless father to Dr Bawumia? You think you can ins ...
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  • GH8 1 month ago

    Don't mind NDC people. Mahama as a politician just like Akuffo Addo. They all try to have strong foothold on all state institutions.
    Now if you add 4 Supreme Court appointments Mahama made in his first term as president, it ...
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  • Kwaku 1 month ago

    No problem. It just shows that what one president has done, another president can do better. Ghana making progress be that. No bi so?

  • an observer 1 month ago

    just like your idiotic stupid useless drunkard father could not take proper care of you. idiot, foolish.

  • Akronfo Addoonothing-Bawuliar-Ofui Ataa Ayi 1 month ago

    npp propanda- Mahama phobia- they are so scared of the man becuase he is doing a good job an showing wevryone how a president has to rull with dignity and competense. The man Osagefo Mahama himself said he is not standing for ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Hahahaha. Now the new title of Mahama is OSAGYEFO? Hmmmm. Ghanaians are interesting. They can easily assign titles that people don’t deserve to them.
    Kwame Nkrumah was given a bunch of titles and Osagyefo was one of them. ...
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  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    It looks like our Politicians want to invite the Military again to come and arrest, torture, beat up innocent people and even steal more from Ghana as Julor Jeremiah Rawlings and his cohorts did. Are we ready for such nonsens ...
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  • Azorka Soofo 1 month ago

    Why not? Your nose deserves pocking by a staff Sergeant of the army you fool called Frank Agyena Karikari. Your mother. I say your mother. Kwasea

  • Frank Agyena-Karikari 1 month ago

    Please, I am in a good mood so don’t start me. Why do you want to start a war that you cannot win. For now, I shall forgive you and will not attack you with disparaging insults. Have a nice day.

  • Yaw Obeng 1 month ago

    You are just being idiotic . What is the military has to do with our governance system? Aboooaaaa

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  • Myra 1 month ago

    I just want to know if the judges were due for promotion and had been overlooked.

  • Atta Kay 1 month ago

    P/NDC have been against the judiciary system since 1981,and packing the bench will never change their accusation. Until their members learn to go by the laws as stated by our Constitution nothing will change.NDC can only have ...
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  • Osika 1 month ago

    Bro don't worry yourself, since 1992 to date no npp members has convicted and jailed, but almost 10 members of ndc has been convicted and jailed ,

  • When a rat's anus starts to breath 1 month ago

    Prof Mills begged for those NPP thieves. He said let's bygones be bygones due to the NDC "Father for All" mantra he was advocating at that time. You idiots will now smell pepper. Small anoma pepper wey de pepper nyash. Pu ...
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  • Akronfo Addoonothing-Bawuliar-Ofui Ataa Ayi 1 month ago

    You wish?

    Mahama is bringing balance to the npp corrupted system.
    Nothing yo can do about it than cry.

    All the thieves who stole our money these past 8 years will face justice.

    Akronfo agenda has failed.

  • THINK DEEP 1 month ago

    You deserve to be in Togo,Ivory Coast or Cameroon, where we've animals like you who prefer the jungle law. If a Murderer like Rawlings could not intimidate the bench , who is a weak Corrupt John Mahama to do so?

  • Felicia Koranteng 1 month ago

    Godfred Dame doesn't know law. He knows Gertrude Araba Torkonoo

  • Truth 1 month ago

    Because the judiciary has always been compromised by the Danquah's and Busuas.

  • Good news 1 month ago

    It's getting the courts organised before going after the thieves,never again npp

  • Kwaku Tee 1 month ago

    Jair Bolsonaro,former President of Brazil is in prison, Nicholas Sarkozy of France just followed him in France. I could forsee John Dramani Mahama following them in the near future. The painful thing is his own judges will im ...
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  • Aduomi 1 month ago

    I'm inclined to stop reading news on this stupid ghanaweb page..instead of giving factual news and educating the public, there seems to be a deliberate attempt to misinform the public all the time.. why will make such a stup ...
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  • Hmmm 1 month ago

    Don't you know the owners of Ghanaweb? Don't waste your breath because Ghanaweb is owned by an NPP MP! They are tain tainted.

  • Osika 1 month ago

    But he mahama sack the cj %100 true
    Mahama travel with akua donkor,
    Mahama travel with 50 people instead of 10 people to new york just last month,
    He tell Ghanaians that he travel with only 10 people.
    Did we ask him st ...
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  • J 1 month ago

    16 Regional NDC Youth Organisers accompanied President John Dramani Mahama to UNGA in NY recently. They deceived Ghanaians by using Pablo as the one who used his pocket money to buy their tickets.

  • J 1 month ago

    Pablo is Opare Addo, that disrespectful Corrupt Akwapim boy with NDC

  • Che Andrew 1 month ago

    "U ain't seen nothing yet"! Each year, new high court, appeal court, and supreme court judges will be appointed till JDM leaves the scene in 2029.

  • Nii 1 month ago

    Do you remember that P/NDC members abducted and killed 3 Judges yet that did not frighten the bench ?

  • Grandmaster. 1 month ago

    We are not even done yet. Wait 8ntill we jail all the corrupt npp officials and you will know that it is a total reset.

  • Kk 1 month ago

    With these ratios, he will appoint 250 superior court judges.... double tongue personality

  • Adu Lodge 1 month ago

    I would have appointed 800 if I were Mahama. Naaniaama. Where were you when Akufo Monkey Addo was packing the bench with his cohorts?

  • the Villager 1 month ago

    WHEN THE COURTS COME AFTER THE REAL OWNERS OF AKONTA MINING, THAT WILL BE WHEN WE WILL KNOW WHETHER THE COURTS ARE PACKED OR IT IS RESETTING THE SYSTEM.

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  • Asimasi 1 month ago

    Am all for this.Lets reset everywhere

  • Bro kwesi 1 month ago

    Parking the Bench is a joke.

  • John,Tema 1 month ago

    Only a foolish judge will follow John Dramani Mahama without thinking of his legal profession. NDC cannot defend those judges when they're performing poorly in their careers. Observers are watching them.

  • Ebenezer 1 month ago

    Hypocritical. Akuffo Addo was slaughtered for those appointments but Mahama is being hailed for doing worse. God is watching all of us all

  • gh.citizen 1 month ago

    I am not a THIEF, so i don't care who is appointed to the high court or the supreme court.

    THE LAW IS THE LAW.

  • Kwame Prah 1 month ago

    I now understand why most journalist are the lowest iq individuals in the world. With the courts currently packed with NPP activist who give 7-0 and 9-0 rulings, how will corruption cases against past NPP appoints be effectiv ...
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  • Sammy 1 month ago

    It has always been like that since once 1992. Check what Rawlings did? Are we able to check our politicians especially when their party is in power. We are all corrupt and if we don’t change, we will be forced to change by ...
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  • Wise Man. 1 month ago

    The Country need Engineers and not judges.Ghana need qualified Engineers to transform the country and not Corrupt judges who supports criminal politicians to steal the state.

  • Anane 1 month ago

    Our universities produce more engineering graduates than law graduates. Lawyers are not your problem. Your problem is engineering graduates who do not have innovation skills and compete with business and humanities graduates ...
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  • Cat 1 month ago

    I voted for jdm and ndc to neutralise the bench and I'm happy he has done it.long live jdm long live ghana

  • Osika 1 month ago

    Small brain

  • Ama 1 month ago

    JJ Rawlings liberalised the formation of Churches in the 80s ,to neutralise the powers of the clergy of the orthodox churches who he thought were his enemies. The Ghanaian society today is a victim of ONE MAN CHURCHES.

  • AyyBeeCee 1 month ago

    Very poor statistical analysis.
    Some will fall for it.

  • Kofi BA 1 month ago

    Let's congratulate President Mahama for packing the courts with his party people. I hope they'll protect him to live longer than Methuselah. Very wicked and corrupt man!

  • Kojois 1 month ago

    I pity poor ghanaians who voted for this dead goat. Sad to leave in the third world country.

  • Jury 1 month ago

    Yes! Parking the bench to counteract your npp political judges

  • Nana K 1 month ago

    Mr. President, appoint more!
    We the people support you!

  • Truth 1 month ago

    Hehehe...smh

  • Yaw 1 month ago

    Wei..... Nothing good, he is just ruling for fame.

  • Akuffo Addo 1 month ago

    Stop the JANDAM. JM is resetting the NPP packed judiciary. Check Mahama"s appointments and promotions and you will see that there were no party footsoldjers. Unlike Akuffo Addo who appointments NPP parliamentary candidates an ...
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  • Sammy 1 month ago

    They think of themselves not Ghanaians. Sell you mother to buy power. When you win, you can bring her home. We are losing interest in these politicians. All about themselves both NPP and NDC

  • Yaw 1 month ago

    GHANAIANS WE TOLD YOU THAT MAHAMA IS A CON MAN, HE CAN DECEIVE YOU WITH SWEETS VOICE. HE APPEARS LIKE SAINTS BUT VERY WICKED

  • Johnny 1 month ago

    This writer needs education. Promotion is different from appointment. 20 out of 21 judges were promoted and yet the writer made some voodoo analysis by comparing appointment with Promotion. The writer need to go back to schoo ...
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  • tj 1 month ago

    l agree with JM to pack the courts to do deep cleaning, to flush out all the viruses Npp and Akufo ado inflicted on ghanaian, unanimous Fc always scoring faulty goals, kick them off so we can form Universal FC

  • Most confused wicked corrupt politician 1 month ago

    Confused Mahama doing anything to destroy Ghana with his Just 4 years of governance.

  • Jack 1 month ago

    He can even appoint all the NDC regional chairmen, constitutiency chairmen etc. If you have good case and good lawyers, you will sail through

  • Nkm 1 month ago

    Mahama is dumb and stupid fucking shit president

  • an observer 1 month ago

    just like your useless ashawo mother and that your stupid idiotic drunkard father, foolish, idiot

  • Bossman Asare 1 month ago

    It has now been proven beyond all reasonable doubt that Godfred Dame don't know law. The fool only knows Gertrude Araba Torkonoo

  • The writer could do better 1 month ago

    I wish the writer would have given the breakdown of those who are existing members of the bench that were promoted from those who were just appointed from their private practices to join the bench as new. I don't think all th ...
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  • Lopez 1 month ago

    With this reckless attitude of Mahama as president how does he expect Ghanaians to trust our judiciary, something he criticised the previous government of. It's a shame, if this is what he calls resetting our country. No brai ...
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  • Achakanapaya 1 month ago

    What is wrong for JDM appointment to the bench???
    When Akuffo Addo was appointing party apparatchik to the bench where were you idiots?.
    Npp is a complete criminal organization.
    Never again Allah.

  • God is Great 1 month ago

    No wonder the judiciary is so corrupt to the bone

  • Kk 1 month ago

    This is no news. So you mean Akuffo Addo did better. You think Ghanaians are foolish. What analysis is that? I am looking forward for Mahama to appoint more than 200% of what Akuffo Addo did.
    Stupid analysis. In less than a ...
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  • Andamus 1 month ago

    JDM i believe is bringing back hope and restoration to we the People of Ghana. Those of you who think that these cases of corruption will travel beyond six months are jokes, the special courts will be here very soon and some ...
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  • Kojo Menkah, Bremen. Germany 1 month ago

    Ghanaweb doesn't own this write up, I am suggesting you bring out the author so we the citizens know the kind of questions to ask. Nothing can sway Ghanaians from the daily rotten scandals coming out so never think this will ...
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  • Ankwanoma 1 month ago

    Ah 65 pɛ is too small

  • It's True 1 month ago

    Now all the institutions have been politicised. The politicians have damaged the country's institutions at their parochial interest.

  • Kofi Manu 1 month ago

    Why didn't you guys cry when Akuffo Addo was appointing judges left, right and centre? Mahama is doing the right things for Ghana. NPP thieves must be held accountable for stealing billions of cedis..

  • Nana Yaw 1 month ago

    No complain. Akufo Addo did worse

  • Angry Man 1 month ago

    Daft analysis. Totally pedestrian and politically self-serving