Dr Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, a leading member of New Patriotic Party (NPP) has called on President John Evans Atta Mills to intervene and curtail the attacks on the Judiciary arising from the prosecution of former State officials under the Kufuor Administration.
He said, "If President Mills is indeed committed to the rule of law as a learned jury and President of Ghana, he must call back his attack comrades who are currently prosecuting an agenda of persecution, hate and vendetta against the Judiciary".
In a statement issued in Accra on Wednesday, Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, former Ghana's Ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro under the NPP Government, said an intervention was quickly needed from President Mills "if he truly believes in the tenets of democracy.
"The on-going politically-motivated trials would only do little in healing the sharp wounds of the people of this country. President Mills'
urgent action is needed if democracy and a level socio-political playing field are to be maintained in Ghana," it added.
The statement said the current NDC judiciary bashing was symptomatic of the bracketing out of the rule of law that Former President John Agyekum Kufuor recently observed.
It said, "The NDC must engage in a soul searching if it wants to understand its recent losses in the court. Thus far, the NDC has engaged in politically-motivated show trial, hence its losses in the court. These cases are not driven by rational legal analysis but rather a determination to please party faithfuls and also justify wild and scurrilous allegations that
the NDC made during the 2008 election campaign.
"How can one justify the failure to prosecute NDC foot soldiers who are holding the State to ransom and forcibly taking over?," it asked.
The statement said, "Now we hear that the Government wants to replace the current judge assigned to the highly politicised Ya Na trial for reasons known only to the NDC.
"While we await the official rationale for this attack on the judge we are reminded about the NDC's attacks on the judiciary by party functionaries and government appointees," he added.
Dr Nyaho-Tamakloe, a medical doctor by profession, called on well meaning Ghanaians to stand firm behind the judiciary and not allow actions of the NDC to cajole them into accepting the treatment they were being taken through.
"It is incumbent on Ghanaians to come out in support of the Judiciary, failing which the NDC might succeed in its aim to emasculate the judiciary. The NDC should rest assured however, that if they should persist in their disturbing attacks on the judiciary, right-thinking Ghanaians would not sit by unconcerned," he added.