Accra is buzzing. The social media landscape is currently awash with a peculiar form of premature celebration. Dr. Justice Srem-Sai, the Deputy Attorney-General, has taken to Facebook to share photos of himself adorned in a pristine white batakari. To the casual observer, it is a simple fashion choice. To the keen political analyst, it is a loud, unambiguous signal. He wants the six million bots to join the chorus, to prepare the stage for a victory that has not yet been delivered in a court of law.
What is the source of this sudden jubilance? The word on the street, whispered by well-connected NDC activists since yesterday, is that Chairman Wontumi is headed to prison on July 3. This is not mere speculation. It is a pattern that has become the hallmark of the current administration.
We have seen this script play out before. On September 1, 2025, Daniel Domelevo, a member of the Article 146 committee, posted a chillingly confident update: “We have nailed it.” Mere hours later, President John Mahama accepted the findings of the Gabriel Pwamang committee, which paved the way for the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo. Domelevo knew the outcome before the public did. Today, Srem-Sai is walking that same path, signaling by his very posture that the verdict against the NPP’s Ashanti Regional Chairman is already written. The courtroom on July 3, it seems, will be nothing more than a theater for the announcement.
Discerning Ghanaians must look back to understand the gravity of this moment. Before the NDC took power in January 2025, Ghana’s judiciary was a sanctuary of stability. The NPP’s record speaks for itself. Since 2001, every Chief Justice who left office did so through the dignified door of compulsory retirement. From Justice Isaac Kobina Abban and Justice Edward Kwame Wiredu to Justice Georgina Theodora Wood and Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the transition was always smooth and respectful of the law.
Not one NPP administration ever triggered Article 146 to remove a sitting Chief Justice. That dark chapter was reserved for the NDC. They suspended Justice Torkornoo in April 2025 and finalized their political execution by September. It was a calculated move to ensure that the President could walk into Jubilee House with a Chief Justice firmly under his control.
Since January 2025, the administration of justice has felt more like a media trial. We have witnessed prosecution by press conference, a trend championed by the likes of Srem-Sai and Dominic Ayine. There is no legal craft here, only the raw exercise of power. When a senior government official celebrates a judicial outcome before the judge has spoken, it does not suggest an independent bench. It suggests a political operation dressed in judicial robes.
The chief of fools knows that political trials under this climate lack the hallmark of true rule of law. We are watching the consolidation of power at the expense of our institutions. On July 3, the bench will finally answer the question that is currently burning in the hearts of all true democrats: Is this a court of law, or a political assembly? The NPP remains ready for the pronouncement, standing firm as the only credible alternative for a nation weary of partisan vengeance.
