The Deputy Attorney-General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah, has dismissed assertions that the country's judiciary system is weak.
Speaking on JoyNews' PM Express, Mr Tuah-Yeboah said that accusations of a lack of judicial independence stem solely from losing cases.
He urged a fair assessment of the judiciary's effectiveness, inviting individuals to witness firsthand the workings of the high court complex.
According to him, a loss in court should not automatically be construed as a sign of the judiciary's weakness but could rather indicate the strength or weakness of the case presented.
The Deputy Attorney-General's defence comes after a report by the Corruption Perception Index indicated that the country's justice system is weak thus leading to the lack of accountability by public officials and the prevalence of corruption in Ghana
However, Mr Tuah-Yeboah firmly disagreed with this portion of the report.
He emphasised that judges do not base their decisions on perceptions or speculations, underscoring the importance of presenting sound legal arguments.
He cautioned against expecting preferential treatment for specialized agencies, such as the Office of the Special Prosecutor or the Attorney-General's Office, stating that the court adheres strictly to its mandate.
"So if an office, for example, if the Attorney General’s Office goes to court and loses, it doesn’t mean the judiciary is weak. It might as well mean that we have a weak case. The judges there, do not work with perceptions, they do not work with speculations.
"So if you want to take speculation to court and you expect that because you are a specialized agency the court will play soft with you, I am sorry, the court goes by its mandate. So if you lose a case and you want to use that to accuse the judiciary of being weak, then you are not being fair to the judiciary," he said on Tuesday.
He, however, acknowledged that the judges as human as they are, make mistakes.
"They [judges] are not saints and they are bound to make mistakes but if they make a mistake we should not use it as a base to say the judiciary is weak and because of that, corruption is thriving. For that, I disagree," he told host Evans Mensah.
On the same show, a former Auditor-General, Daniel Domelevo, in a rebuttal said accusations of the country's weak judiciary do not stem from losing cases.
According to him, the way some of the cases are judged is questionable due to the gradual interference of government therefore leading to the mistrust of the justice system in Ghana.
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