GBA storms Kumasi for conference
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) last Monday opened a five-day Annual General Conference at the Great Hall of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi.
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Among the speakers were the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II; former President John Agyekum Kufuor and Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood, the Chief Justice.
The conference was on the theme: “Rule of Law, Access to Justice and Sustainable Development - The Panacea to Political and Economic progress of a nation state”.
The Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, addressing the participants, solicited the help of the GBA to offer professional
Counsel devoid of party interest to cleanse the Ghanaian voter register to protect the integrity of the electoral system.
He said he expected the GBA to make a pronouncement on whether or not Ghana needed a new voter register from a purely professional perspective because it had a stake in protecting the integrity of the electoral system and the survival of the country’s democracy.
Former President Kufuor, for his part, said unbridled corruption at all levels was drifting the Ghanaian society apart and was endangering development.
He said impunity had become the order of the day in the Ghanaian society; a canker, which if not checked, could endanger accountability, especially to those entrusted with power.
The Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, however, assured Ghanaians that the Judicial Council was determined to swiftly and decisively apply the appropriate sanctions to the 34 judges alleged to have received bribes according to the laws of the land if they were found culpable.