File Suits Against Appointment Of ‘Crook’ Maxwell Opoku Agyemag To Appeals Court

Two persons – musician Kwame Asare Obeng, alias A-Plus and former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Ashanti Regional Youth Organizer, Yaw Brogya Genfi – have filed separate suits at the Supreme Court to restrain the Judicial Council from considering a former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang’s recommendation as Justice of the Court of Appeal.

Both Mr. Genfi and A-Plus are praying the court to declare the recommendation of Mr. Opoku-Agyemang for the Appeals Court Bench as “unconstitutional.”

They also want the recommendation to be set aside by the Supreme Court.

The public-spirited suits come after the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of Justice submitted names of 11 candidates to the Chief Justice for consideration as Justices of the Court of Appeal.

The selected individuals include Her Ladyship Afia Serwaa Botwe, His Lordship Kweku Ackah-Boafo, Her Ladyship Jennifer Abena Dazie, Her Ladyship Gifty Agyei-Addo, Mr. Maxwell Opoku-Agyegmang among others.

But Maxwell Opoku Agyemang, a man who became notorious as a hatchet man for the Akufo-Addo government in the machinations to remove former Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Charlotte Osei, is seen as an extremely tainted person not fit for the position.

It would be recalled that some time past a document alleging that Mr. Opoku-Agyemang had illegally admitted ten students to the Ghana School of Law, while he was Director at the LAW School had leaked to the media.

In his suit, A-Plus provides a verbatim quotation from the document to nail the alleged crook: “Council decided that the ten (10) students who were identified in the Committee of Inquiry’s report as having been admitted illegally by the then Acting Director, Mr. Maxwell Opoku-Agyemang, should be withdrawn immediately from the Ghana School of Law. The Secretary to the General Legal Council was to convey this decision to the students.”

According to the musician, the Attorney General ought not to have recommended the alleged crook, Mr. Opoku-Agyemang, as judge, given the allegation hanging around his neck.

On his part, Mr. Genfi argues that is unfit for the position, saying he is “not qualified to be so appointed as a Justice of the Court of Appeal by reason of the findings of the Tony Forson Jnr Chaired Committee set up by the General Legal Council contained in a letter dated 14th February 2022”.