Ghana: Creating, Looting and Sharing, a National Pastime?

editorial

The Supreme Court, in a recent unanimous decision on a multi-million dollar judgment debt that Ghana should not have paid to Isotofon, described the Attorney General's Department as having become an unholy avenue for creating, looting and sharing Ghana's wealth.

The justices had found that lawyers employed by the state to defend its interest on such occasions, rather reach pre-trial deals for a share in the amounts that the plaintiffs are claiming, and on the strength of such understanding, deliberately fail to defend the suit, thereby enabling their co-conspirators to get default judgments.

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