The Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood on Friday May 5, 2017 announced that she will retire in the next four weeks with a promise to fight for Prisoners Rights in her new life after 47 years of public service.
Ultimate News’ Kojo Ansah reported that, Ghana’s first lady chief justice promised to use all legitimate means available to her after retirement to fight for prisoners’ rights in the country.
She said this when she addressed Prison officers, state attorneys, lawyers and judicial service workers after a ‘Justice For All’ sitting at the Nsawam Medium Security Prison. The Danish Ambassador and the Director of Public Prosecutions were also in the prisons as the CJ witnessed her last Justice For All Programme before she leaves office next month.
In 2015, Joy FM’s Seth Kwame Boateng made a documentary, which tells the stories of shock, pain and sheer neglect of possibly innocent people spending productive hours behind bars.
In response to the documentary, the Chief Justice reactivated the Justice for All Programme which was initiated by the Attorney General and the Ghana Prisons Service (GPS) and aimed at ensuring that hearing is given every citizen, irrespective of one’s social, economic and political background.
The Justice for all programme is a special in-prison court sitting for remand prisoners, prisoners whose trials are unreasonably delayed.
The programme constitutes a key component of the rule of law, access to justice and the sustained promotion and protection of the human rights of prisoners –both remand prisoners and convicted prisoners and of course their handlers, that is officials of the Prisons Service, and by extension the families of these persons that I have identified.
Through the initiative, hundreds of prisoners have been freed from jail and saved the government purse.
Source: Ultimatefmonline
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you are a great inspiration to mankind an women in particular. may. the history of your carrier. your knowledge of the law, your fairness and uprightness, your quest to build capacity at the bench, your infrastructural development agenda in the judiciary are monumental. indeed your support for prisoners stared not today. justice for all programme is clear testimony. may GOD richly bless you and your family
hello, is not the CJ that will elect, appoint or nominate a new CJ, is the president and now we all wanna see how COMPETENT mr 3 pack is, i hope JSC DOTSE, JSC ANIM YEBOAH , JSC JULIUS ANSAH OR JSC SOPHIA AKUFO succeds, if atugubah is elected, i swear nana 3 pack i will hmmmmmm
When did this realization strike you? After all these years of been the CJ, where you had the real power of letting things happen, you did virtually nothing. You will try in retirement but your results would not be as enviable and effective as doing it when you had all the power and authority to achieve tangible results. This reminds me of an IGP who was humiliated by a fellow chief when he went on a retirement, he forgot he no longer had the power to issue orders, for others to be bullied, remember madam you are going to lose all your powers, authority and ability to order people around to get things done. Even as a CJ you had some of your people challenging your orders at the Court. Anyway wish you well wai, your retirement project is a laudable one, and I doff my heart out for you.
Proud of you. Wish you good health and the best in retirement/\ Where is Kwabena Adjei; you could not not use your several ways to kill the cat. rather you were thrown out.
cj don't forget my HC o COA appointment oohh.
NEITHER DO WE WANT AY. vote Benin.
Justice Dotse should be your successor
Madam, thank you for your service to dear Ghana, please do not retire before you fight for the defenseless, you are the Chief Justice now, when you retire, you will not have the capacity. Some of your Judges and the prosecutors appear to give no justice at all, where it says innocent until proven guilty, but these prosecutors and Judges, see you as guilty until proven innocent, and end up remanding innocent people for no fault of theirs, please, start reprimanding some judges before you go.
We don't want Atuguba to succeed you ooooooo!!!!