Your Lordship, the Chief Justice, I have watched the four-minute video clip in which you recount your visit to some state institutions, particularly the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT).

In it, you speak approvingly of how well SSNIT is doing today, compared with its condition some time ago, when it was even preparing to “sell its prized asset, Labadi Beach Hotel.” You then wonder, or perhaps lament, what happened during the preceding eight years and how Ghana could have sunk so low. Never mind that the new management is also reportedly seeking strategic investors for the hotels, undoubtedly to sink SSNIT back to those same depths you believe it had sunk under the previous administration.

Since I served as Chairperson of the SSNIT Board of Trustees from August 2021 until 6 January 2025, I assume that I was one of the people busily digging those depths from which, according to your account, the institution has now so miraculously ascended. I had not realised we were underground at the time, but one learns something new every day, especially from visiting dignitaries.