The Member of Parliament for Suame Constituency, Lawyer John Darko, has urged that the ongoing committee hearings on the removal of the Chief Justice be held in public view.
According to him, Ghanaians deserve full transparency, just as they saw in past election petition cases.
Lawyer Darko made this appeal during an interview monitored by Kumasimail.com on PM Express with Evans Mensah.
He argued that the public has a right to know what happens in such an important process.
“I believe it is in everyone’s best interest for these hearings to be open,” he said.
He pointed out that, for the two election petitions, the Supreme Court allowed public viewing of the trials. “We know that, in the two election petitions, the courts decided to hold the thing in public, even though our courts are not allowed to broadcast trials in public. But because of the public interest in the election petition cases, the courts made room for this public viewing to happen,” he emphasized.
Darko also pointed to examples from other countries. He mentioned the Anita Hill case in the United States Senate, where hearings were finally opened to the public after years of being kept private.
He argued that “making the hearings public is not something new or difficult.”
He also spoke about the law. “If you look at 146(8)A, again, my position on the law is that the fact that the commission said it should be in camera doesn’t mean that the committee should be allowed to do that.”
Source: www.kumasimail.com / Kwadwo Owusu
