Sophia Akuffo Quotes
born 1949 Ghana
Sophia Abena Boafoa Akuffo JSC (born 20 December 1949) was the Chief Justice of Ghana from 19 June 2017 until 20 December 2019.
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Everything in this world that you can arrange in such a way that the dealings are at an arm's length is better than somebody's arm twisted and another person's arm is in their pocket.
If you insist on ideology....which I thought was outdated after Communism....Maybe I can say I am egalitarian.
I find it wicked, I find it disrespectful, I find it unlawful, I find it totally wrong, period! Because you don’t solve your problems by sacrificing your aged. That is the last thing you should do.
Those are the things that make me sad because somebody with PhD should actually be seeing themselves as employing people who will be employing other people.
If it takes money to do that then there should be access to that money without being necessarily identifiable that you are from here or from there.
For me, very little gets to me, except to do my work that I have to do and I must say up till now, I still believe that 99.99% of the judiciary from magistrates all the way to the Chief Justice, they are there to simply do their work.
For how long are we going to be in this situation or circumstance where you don’t really see much hope in the eyes of young people? When you get talking to them they don’t sound too hopeful.
Nobody tells me what to think, except God and nobody can tell me what to do with my time and what to say about anything going on in this country (Ghana). Thank God we have a constitution, flawed though it might be but at least the right to say what I want to say and the freedom of conscience, that's mine and nobody will trample on it however influential they are.
When they are sounding hopeful, it is about getting a visa of one type or the other or getting a university admission outside. Most often their eyes and hope are external and not in Ghana which I think is extremely sad.”
There are standards for the public service...and conflict of interest is something that always can be dealt with, whether it is written in black and white or not... and conflict of interest does not necessarily have to be actual; it can be potential.