[ 2016-11-12 ]

Judges’ strike: Ghana is broke – Kweku Baako
The planned strike action by lower court judges in
Ghana over issues relating to their salaries is an
indication that the Government of Ghana is broke,
Abdul Malik Kweku Baako, editor-in-chief of the
New Crusading Guide, has said.

High Court justices and magistrates across the
country have threatened to embark on an industrial
action from the 21st of November over
government’s failure to address issues with
their salaries.

According to the judges, the 10 per cent increment
in salaries they demanded from government had
fallen on deaf ears, while the demands of the
justices of the superior courts had been attended
to.

They are furious because all their efforts to get
the Attorney General and the Minister of Finance
to address their issue had been futile.

Speaking in relation to this matter on Multi
TV’s Newsfile programme on Saturday November 12,
Mr Baako said: “Maybe we still haven’t
recovered from the state which we chewed the meat
to the bone. It means simply we are broke, there
is not money in the state coffers to pay them. Let
us be honest: we don’t have the money. If we
don’t have the money, we ask, ‘Where is the
money?’ Where did it go? I don’t understand
it.”

He added: “To the extent that you have such a
delicate sector publicly articulating their
discontent…it’s all about money. …Sooner
than later, of course the law wouldn’t allow it,
but don’t be surprised if you get security
personnel agitating publicly. That is a mess. That
is something you don’t need to see. To the
extent that you now have people in the judicial
system articulating publicly their discontent
…we are talking here of the judicial officers,
judges, it ought not to have happened.

“It means they are at the level of deep-seated,
deep-rooted frustration and disappointment and
discontent.”

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