The Lawyer-Common (A-G) and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has acknowledged the challenges in his line of responsibility.
Talking on the 2024/2025 Annual Ghana Bar Affiliation Convention on Monday, September 9, 2024, at Kumasi, he highlighted the peculiar difficulties that plague the A-G, significantly within the second time period of the federal government.
He emphasised situations such because the Home Debt Alternate Program (DDEP), the place he made himself unpopular to reign in colleague ministers and uphold the legislation.
“The duty of being an Lawyer Common within the second time period of a authorities isn’t a simple one. It includes coming in at a time when the federal government has carried out a set of insurance policies in its first time period and made some powerful selections that might not be fashionable with the folks.
“Because the Lawyer Common, it includes making your self unpopular by telling your colleague ministers that they can’t pursue sure legislations and insurance policies which though within the nationwide curiosity, could also be appropriate with the legislation. I bear in mind the painful opinion I gave to the Minister for Finance on the home debt restructuring at a troublesome time for the nation and the recommendation I gave to the Minister for Well being through the COVID-19 disaster,” he mentioned.
He additionally cited quite a few criticisms from the media and political adversaries “even when they’re unjustified or improper.”
Mr Dame added that he has, nonetheless, braved the challenges of the workplace and remained undaunted as a consequence of his love for legislation.
Touting his achievements since he took workplace in 2021, he mentioned, “I couldn’t be prouder of our file of feat during the last three and a half years.”
He additional defended the function of prosecution in guaranteeing justice in Ghana, stating that authorized motion isn’t persecution however a mandatory measure to uphold the legislation and keep peace.