The Judicial Service Staff Association (JUSAG) has written to the Chief Justice, Georgina Theodora Wood, asking her to press Justice Yaw Apau, an Appeals Court Judge, to �withdraw� public claims of corruption he made on Wednesday against middle and junior staff of the Judiciary.
�People always talk about corruption on the bench; they think it is the judges who take money. Sometimes our Clerks, Court Registrars, even Lawyers are so involved in this dubious act,� the respected Judge, who chairs the body investigating past judgment debt payments in Ghana, said at Wednesday�s public sitting of the Commission.
He added, �My own interpreter collected a huge amount of money from someone assuring him that judgment would go in his favour without my knowledge. It was later that I got to know that he (my Clerk) collected an outrageous amount on my behalf�.
His comments appear to have rattled JUSAG, the umbrella association that protects the interests of staff of Ghana�s Judiciary countrywide.
In a letter to the Chief Justice, JUSAG Chairman, Francis Brakwa, said: �Much as we would agree that there are bad nuts in every institution, we seriously disagree with His Lordship, Justice Yaw Apau�s assertion that Registrars and Clerks were those corrupting the Judicial System.
�We must state that there are hard-working, honest and incorruptible Registrars and Clerks in the Judicial Service and we believe their contribution towards the administration of justice must be commended instead of [them] being labeled as corrupt officers�.
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