The President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Yaw Acheampong Boafo, has called for an end to the politicisation of Ghana's judiciary.

His remarks come amid the increasing political commentary surrounding high-profile court cases in the country.

At the remembrance service for the Martyrs of the Rule of Law, held at the Cavalry Baptist Church in Accra on Sunday, June 30, Mr Boafo lamented the current trend of framing judicial matters through a political lens.

“We must spare the judiciary our divisive partisanship. It is sad that public commentary relative to cases of public interest pending in court has taken on political colouration,” he said on Sunday.

Mr Boafo reiterated a point he made at the 2023 Annual General Conference of the Ghana Bar Association, emphasising that the judiciary operates independently of political affiliations.

"There is no training module at the judicial training school known as NPP judge, NDC judge, CPP judge for anyone to tag a judge as NPP, NDC, and CPP. There is only one judiciary established in Chapter 11 of the 1992 Constitution," he stated emphatically.

“I want to place on record that at no stage of the interview and evaluation courses of an appointment to any level of the judiciary is the political affiliation or leanings of an applicant a requirement."

The remembrance service honoured the sacrifices of the three judges who were killed in 1982 for defending the rule of law.

Mr Boafo, therefore, urged individuals who assign political colours to judges to desist from the act in order not to “lead to the martyrdom of any judge.”