Founder of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has taken on the Supreme Court for what he describes as hypocrisy and bias in its handling of disenfranchisement cases.
His comments follows the Court’s recent decision to stay speaker Alban bagbin’s declaration of 4 seats Fomena, Agona West, Suhum and amenfi central vacant after the four MPs filed to contest the 2024 parliamentary elections as independent candidates.
According to Franklin Cudjoe the people of Santrokofi, Akpafu, Likpe, and Lolobi (SALL) constituency were unjustly ignored by the Court since 2020, leading to a prolonged lack of representation despite their obligation to pay taxes.
‘’I am so shocked at the level of hypocrisy and double standards displayed by the Supreme Court today.
The Chief Justice was so invested in the representation of constituents whose pampered MPs had decided to abandon them for other parties after representing them for nearly four years.
And yet, when my SALL people were deliberately disenfranchised and we ran to the same Supreme Court for protection, it did not offer this level of comfort it so lavishly and without shame displayed today towards other constituencies.
We had gone to the Supreme Court to expeditiously protect our rights that had been violated and had the highest risk of being violated for the duration of the existing Parliament.
The Supreme Court discarded us and despatched us to the High Court to ‘ try our luck’.
So we went to the High Court to start our SALL case.’’
