President Akufo-Addo has nominated four judges to serve as justices of the Supreme Court.
Akufo-Addo has sent a letter to the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Sumana Kingsford Bagbin, asking Parliament to consider the nominees soonest possible in order for them to begin work.
The four nominated judges are;
George Kingsley Koomson, Barbara Frances Ackah-Yensu and Samuel Kwame Adibu Asiedu for justices of the Court of Appeal.
Ernest Yao Gaewu for High Court justice.
According Akufo-Addo, the nominees are on the advice of the Judicial Council as a result of vacancies at the apex court of the land. Some vacancies are occasioned by death.
That counsel came by a letter written by Chief Justice Kwesi Anin-Yeboah
The nominations are in accordance with Article 144 (2) of the 1992 constitution.
The last part of the letter read;
I am fully satisfied that each of these persons is duly qualified and eminently fit to discharge the functions of the justice of the Supreme Court.
Mr. Speaker, it is my respectful hope and expectation that the approval of the nominees will proceed expeditiously to enable them to assume office as soon as practicable.
