Akufo-Addo To Commission 60 Courts, Judges Bungalows Before October

The President of the Republic of Ghana, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo has said sixty courts and judges’ bungalows will be commissioned across the country before the beginning of the legal year in October 2022.

The president made this known while speaking at an induction ceremony for ten justices of the High Court.

He indicated that the sixty (60) are part of some one hundred courts and bungalows his government is constructing across the sixteen regions of the country.

“Government, through the Administrator of the District Assembly Common Fund, is constructing one hundred (100) new courts and bungalows for Judges in all sixteen (16) Regions of the country. Sixty percent (60%) of these courts and bungalows have been completed, and will be commissioned before the start of the legal year in October.”

President Akufo-Addo explained that “Three (Ahafo, Bono East and Oti Regions) out of six new High Courts, which are being constructed for the six new Regions, will be completed and ready for commissioning, again, before October.”

Additionally, he said that “A new, modern Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, together with twenty (20) townhouses and a guesthouse to serve as permanent residences for Court of Appeal Judges based in Kumasi, will be completed and commissioned in September”.

Source: opemsuo.com/Hajara Fuseini