Former Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemka, has warned against politicising Ghana’s judiciary, cautioning that such actions threaten the very survival of the nation’s democracy.

Speaking during an interview on Channel One TV‘s The Big Issue on Tuesday, July 2, he stressed that while criticisms and political maneuvering may occur around the Executive and Legislature, the judiciary must be held sacrosanct and above partisan manipulation.

“We can do anything to the Executive, we can do anything to Parliament, but when we touch the judiciary, the very foundation of our democracy is gone,” Kpemka declared.

He emphasized that the moment political actors—whether from the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) or the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC)—begin to politicize the judiciary, it signals a dangerous descent for the country.

“When we start playing politics with the judiciary—whether NPP or NDC—that is the beginning of the end of Ghana,” he warned.