Strengthening state institutions, curbing impunity

I speak as the Acting Rector of GIMPA which recently commissioned a Criminal Justice Centre, with the Chief Justice-designate, Special Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and a former Justice of that court all present.

I speak as a lawyer whose life calling is the pursuit of justice. I speak as a public servant who has once occupied the office of Director of Legal Services and Investigations at the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice.

I speak as an Old Saint who has lost one of his own. I speak as a native of the Central Region whose fellow natives committed this dastardly act in the Region. I speak as a Citizen and not a spectator. I speak with pain and shame, but, with resolve. I speak thus:

I pray that Old Saint Captain Maxwell Adam Mahama’s death would not be in vain but that it will be a trigger to (1) restore efficiency and integrity in our public service, (2) eliminate mob justice, vigilantism and impunity amongst the populace, and (3) root out illegal mining in our beloved country. 

May God be with Ghana.

 

 

 

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