Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo has recounted the events that led her to join a protest against the administration of former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

Akuffo, who participated in a picketing exercise in 2023 over the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), revealed that she joined the demonstration through a friend.

Speaking in an interview on Joy News on February 26, 2026, she explained, “Fortunately, I saw that there were some people picketing and I saw somebody I knew on that picket line. I phoned her and said, was it you I saw? She said, yes. And I said, okay, are you going again? She said, yes. I said, Can I join? And so, I went.”

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During the 2023 protest, the former head of the judiciary was seen holding a placard that read, “We use our bond yields to pay our rent, medical bills, electricity bills and water bills.”

Akuffo has maintained that she does not regret joining the demonstration and would gladly do it again if the need arises.

“So, it’s something which I always say if I had to do it again, I would do it. Maybe it’s my home upbringing or how I understood my legal education. You don’t sit there and just let unlawful things be done, and if you feel strongly about it and there’s no one to listen to you, you shout it out.”

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