THE CONSTITUTION IS A CAPTIVE.
Let history record this crime.
Let history pronounce the NDC as a party that has failed itself and dragged Ghana back into the dark days.
Let the Hansard of public conscience read that Monday, November 10, is the day Ghana paid a farewell to parliamentary supremacy, judicial independence, and due process.
Freedom of expression is buried on this day.
I watched what the NDC parliamentarian, Mahama Ayariga, and the majority members on the Appointment Committee
put Minority Leader Afenyo-Markin through, and I couldn’t hold back my tears for Ghana.
The NDC is not a party of law – save it.
The NDC is not a party of due process – save it.
The judiciary has always been their enemy – save it.
They murdered three high court judges because they refused to compromise – that is history.
They removed Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo because she would not bend – that is without debate.
And Paul Baffoe-Bonnie is being brought in because he can be compromised – that is a fact in evidence.
And now, the NDC parliamentary majority has been tasked with brutalizing anyone who stands in the way of making this dream a reality.
Today, the NDC regime didn’t just appoint a Chief Justice – it took a hostage.
The facts are the indictment:
1. Chief Justice Torkornoo, removed by constitutional vandalism.
2. Her office handed to her successor, Baffoe-Bonnie.
3. Who then judged the challenges to his own ascent.
4. And he crushed every plea for recusal.
5. Now, Parliament brutalizes the process to its end.
6. The Minority has walked out – a protest history will record with pride.
This is the assassination of judicial independence. The ancient rule that “no one is judge in their own cause” is not just broken – it is dead.
Do not mistake the robe for legitimacy. Do not confuse the vote for justice. This is power, costumed as law.
That gavel falling is the sound of an annexation. That voice ringing “Order” from the chair is a sound of authoritarian rule.
The judiciary is now a colony of the executive.
But constitutions outlive regimes. This capture is complete, but it would not be permanent.
We see this crime. We name it. We record it.
We will be merciless in our language, raw in our truth, and disobedient to the gatekeepers of this fraud.
The Republic of Ghana is wounded, but it will heal.
Today’s victors are tomorrow’s defendants.
For in the end, the Constitution always buries its undertakers.
J. A. Sarbah
