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Three judges in Northern region are to face disciplinary action for unnecessarily remanding suspects who appear before them.
The names of the judges are not yet known. But the This follows a directive from the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo demanding names of judges who excessively remand suspects in abuse of their fundamental rights.
She issued a strong warning to judges across the country when she joined the Justice For All Program in Tamale Central prisons.
The Justice For All Program is an intervention to speed up the process of justice delivery for remand prisoners crammed in Ghana's congested prisons.
At the sitting at the Tamale Central prisons, three people were unconditionally discharged and 13 others granted bail.
Chairman of the Justice For All Program Justice Clemence Honyenugah later hinted of a possible action against the named judges.
The Northern region chairman of the Ghana Bar Association, Mohammed Alhassan and the region's supervising High Court judge Justice Kwame Apenkwa backed punitive action for the three judges.
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