Let the record be eternally stained with this truth: the demolition of a Chief Justice requires not just a tyrant’s command, but architects of deceit. This court of public opinion takes JUDICIAL NOTICE of two incontrovertible facts that condemn the accused beyond any reasonable doubt:
FIRST, the subsequent lamentation of their own member, Former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, who publicly admitted the petitions they validated so eagerly “lacked the gravity” for the grave action they enabled. The chief architect now disavows the blueprint.
SECOND, the irrefutable evidence of the Judicial Service’s own policy – EXHIBIT DO3 – which explicitly and lawfully granted the Chief Justice the very entitlements these baseless petitions fraudulently framed as crime.
Let it be entered into evidence that on this day, we prosecute the complete and utter moral annihilation of the Council of State – a conclave of thirty-one idle minds, now exposed as thirty-one willing accomplices in the judicial regicide of a co-equal arm of government. They possessed the truth and chose the lie.
The charge is not mere error. It is High Treason against the spirit of the Constitution. The motive is a fetid cocktail of cowardice, avarice, and a thirst for relevance. The weapon is a conscience hollowed out and offered up for power. The victim is Lady Justice herself.
We shall now serialise the charges against this syndicate of the compromised.
CHARGE ONE:
CONSPIRACY TO LEGITIMISE A LIE. The accused are guilty of knowingly, and with malicious intent, taking a collection of manufactured, baseless petitions – allegations they understood to be frivolous and legally barren – and anointing them with the false perfume of legitimacy. Their vote was not an assessment of merit; it was a premeditated act of political arson. They struck the match and now feign surprise at the conflagration.
CHARGE TWO:
GROSS HYPOCRISY IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
The accused,each and every one, sits atop a mountain of lavish Article 71 benefits – fat emoluments, luxurious perks, and boundless allowances, all gorged from the public coffers. Yet, with breathtaking audacity, they deemed the Chief Justice’s claim of her modest, lawful travel entitlements an act of grand larceny. They who enjoyed unlimited, unquestioned perks deemed her limited codified entitlements a crime. This is not an error; it is the rank stench of hypocrisy.
CHARGE THREE:
DERELICTION OF DUTY AND BETRAYAL OF OFFICE.
The accused are not a gathering of laymen. They are a chamber of legal titans: a Former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo; a Former Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu; a Former Supreme Court Jurist, Vida Akoto-Bamfo. Their sworn duty was to be a firewall against this exact brand of cynical power grab. Instead, they became its primary engineers. They were not ignorant of the law; they were contemptuous of it. They chose to sell their constitutional duty for a pittance of political favour – the modern-day equivalent of thirty pieces of silver.
CHARGE FOUR:
COWARDICE PERVERTING PROCESS.
We specifically indict Sophia Akuffo. She who once wore the robes now torn from her successor’s shoulders. She sat in silent conclave as the charges were forged. Her abstention was a coward’s calculation, a choice to preserve her seat at the table rather than to overturn it. Her subsequent lamentations are not a defense; they are a confession. She was the architect present at the demolition, objecting to the wreckage only after the dust settled on her own irreparably shattered legacy.
CHARGE FIVE:
THE PERVERSION OF WISDOM INTO FARCE. This Council has proven itself a grotesque,wasteful redundancy. Its purpose is not to advise but to enable; not to protect but to perfume the stench of corruption with a veneer of respectability. They are thirty-one ghosts, feeding gluttonously on the taxpayer, whose sole function is to provide a scholarly signature to the most brazen political crimes.
The evidence is incontrovertible. The verdict is self-evident.
Verdict
This Council of State is poison in the bloodstream of our democracy. It has not advised; it has betrayed. It has not guarded; it has conspired. Its only legacy is complicity.
They are guilty. On all charges.
If there is any critical, urgent reform the 1992 Constitution needs, it is the immediate and absolute scrapping of this wasteful and useless Council of State.
Abolish them. Erase them. Let history record only their shamelessly shame.
Case closed.
J. A. Sarbah.
