Private legal practitioner Abraham Amaliba has expressed sharp disappointment in the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), accusing it of sliding back into political bias after what he believed was a brief but promising moment of neutrality.
Speaking on Morning Starr with Naa Dedei Tettey, Mr. Amaliba reacted to the GBA’s recent statement regarding the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Torkonoo.
According to him, the GBA had previously shown signs of maturity and impartiality but has now reverted to behavior that appears to favor the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP).
He said, “I described that statement as one of the most forward-looking statements in the last 20 years of the Bar Association’s history because for the first time you saw a bar that is not taking sides, you saw a bar that is sticking to the rules and you saw a bar that is restraining lawyers from making comments that would detract from the process. So I described it as one of the forward-looking.”
However, Mr. Amaliba said this optimism has been cut short. “But now this is a case of what I would term as habits once cultivated are difficult to discard.
“Don’t forget that a bar is always critical when the NDC is in power and I thought that the earlier statement meant that they had shed off that accolade not knowing that they will come back to their former selves,” he said.
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