IMANI Africa founder Franklin Cudjoe has unleashed a damning indictment of the Supreme Court, accusing it of blatant hypocrisy and deep-seated bias in handling cases of voter disenfranchisement. Cudjoe minced no words in condemning the Court’s willingness to indulge certain political whims while casually dismissing others, as seen in its recent ruling in favor of four constituencies whose Members of Parliament abandoned their voters for four years without consequence.
Cudjoe lambasted the Court’s neglect of the SALL constituency (Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi), whose citizens have been robbed of representation and deprived of development, yet still required to shoulder the burden of taxes.
He highlighted the Court’s “opulent and brazen favoritism,” asserting that while SALL’s plea for representation languished in legal limbo, the Court swiftly moved to shield the interests of MPs from these four other constituencies, seemingly because their neglect threatened their salaries and perks.
In 2020, SALL was callously excluded from parliamentary elections due to an alleged “oversight”—an outrage that went ignored by the nation’s highest court. When SALL eventually took the issue to the High Court, it delivered another crushing blow by ruling it had no jurisdiction, leaving SALL in legal purgatory for nearly four years.
Cudjoe’s disdain was unmistakable as he laid bare the systemic neglect SALL has suffered, condemning the Court’s selective efficiency in advancing politically charged cases. The Supreme Court’s swift ruling on an ex- parte motion to secure MPs’ salaries—while ignoring SALL’s basic democratic right to representation—smacks of “judicial terrorism aided by legal plunder,” he charged.
Cudjoe’s critique reveals a burning frustration with what he sees as a deeply politicized judiciary, one that cynically picks and chooses whose democratic rights to defend based on the winds of political expedience. For him, the Court’s recent rulings expose an entrenched bias that, if left unchecked, threatens the democratic principles the judiciary is meant to uphold.
Godfred Sey/Ahotoronline.com
