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Don’t Your Lawyers Have Their Own Senses? Allow Them To Fight – Baako Slams NDC
Veteran journalist, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has admonished the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for creating the impressing that the Chief Justice is trying to gag the party’s lawyers.
This comes after the CJ summoned Dr Dominic Ayine of the NDC to the Ghana Legal Council for some comments he made against the judiciary with respect to the 2020 election petition.
This move, unpleased by the NDC, triggered a press conference where the General Secretary of the party, Johnson Asiedu Nketia accused the CJ of supervising a ‘judicial tyranny’.
However, Mr Baako believes the NDC are making a fuss about nothing.
According to him, lawyers in the party have minds of their own and are good enough to defend themselves before the GLC instead of the NDC making a big case out of their accusation.
“The problem I have is that you have these lawyers, good lawyers, experienced lawyers members of a party; that is not the material point. The material point is that we are now being told by their party that these lawyers affiliated to them appear to have been singled out and are being intimidated into submission of some sort. Now, these lawyers, they’re lawyers; not people like us. They go before the Committee, a Committee which is part of their own profession, all this thing is captured in the Legal Professional Conduct And Etiquette Rules 2020 (LI 24/23)… They submit themselves to this; I don’t know maybe at a gunpoint and yet we have their party… there soliciting some sympathy… on their behalf that they’re being intimidated,” he stated.
“Don’t they have their own senses? Aren’t they trained minds? Aren’t they learned people? Aren’t they members of the learned profession? When they go to the Committee, what animal is that Committee?”, he lashed out at the NDC.
