MEMBER OF Parliament for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu, on Thursday said the National Democratic Congress (NDC), if voted into power come 2024, “will deal with political judges politically.”
He made this known to the media during the NDC-supported Coalition of Concerned Ghanaians demonstration against government’s Electronic Transaction Levy, also known as E-Levy, which has been withdrawn for modification.
Sosu warned judges in the country not to engage in politics saying, “If you are a judge, your fidelity is to the Constitution of Ghana and the laws of Ghana. If you allow yourself to be used as a political judge so that you can do the bidding of the ruling government, be warned, be warned, because we are watching closely at you. In the event that there’s change of power, every political judge will be fished out, every political judge will be dealt with politically.”
“So please, stick with the law, let us do our politics,” the legislator, who is also a lawyer stressed.
Mr. Sosu is before a Kaneshie Magistrate Court following a demonstration he organised on October 25, 2021, to push for good roads in his constituency but it ended up in violence, according to the police.
He was charged for his alleged involvement in a demonstration that led to the blockage of road and the destruction of property in some parts of his constituency.
He has been charged with obstruction of public way, causing damage to other road users and unlawful damage.
The MP’s appearance before the court, on his own, follows the decision of the court to rescind a warrant it issued for his arrest after he failed to show up for the trial three consecutive times.
He failed to show up for the third time after the Speaker of Parliament had written to the court on two previous occasions that the MP was on parliamentary duties outside Ghana.
Also speaking at the demonstration, the General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said the party will abolish the controversial E-Levy if the NDC wins power in 2024.
“We will abolish it within the first 100 days we assume power. It is not taxation. It is daylight robbery, taking people’s capital from their pockets,” he stated.
He added that, “We are not against taxation.
Taxation is for value addition. But we will not sit and watch the government to keep robbing us.”
BY Ernest Kofi Adu