Full text: Majority Leader’s press conference on CJ’s recommendation to appoint more justices

The Majority Alexander Afenyo-Markin has said that the decision of the Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana, Gertrude Torkornoo to recommend five Justices for appointment to the Supreme Court comes on the back of multiple cases the Supreme Court is always saddled with.

He explained that Ghana’s Supreme Court is not being packed as others would want us to believe.

“It is instructive to note that, since independence, we have allowed institutions to grow. Even before 2019, Ghana had only Ten Regions. As we speak, we have an additional six making it sixteen,” he said at a press conference in Parliament on Monday, July 8.

Read his full text here