The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the incumbent government of weakening the rule of law, citing what it calls “selective justice” in the handling of anti-corruption cases and the implementation of legal education reforms.
In a press statement signed by the Co-Chair of the party’s Constitutional & Legal Affairs Policy Committee, Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, the NPP said it had observed “a deliberate weakening of the institutions that protect the rule of law and equal accountability” since the NDC took office on January 7, 2025.
The party raised two main concerns: the case of convicted former MASLOC Chief Executive Sedina Christine Tamakloe Attionu, and what it described as the “unlawful” rollout of legal education reform under the Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170).
The NPP said Tamakloe’s conviction remains “among the most significant corruption prosecutions in Ghana’s recent history.”
She was found guilty on April 16, 2024, on 78 counts, including stealing and causing financial loss to the state after a trial that proceeded in absentia. The High Court sentenced her to 10 years’ hard labour.
According to the statement, she was extradited from the United States on June 9, 2026. The NPP warned against “any extra-judicial intervention” to alter the sentence outside the appellate process.
“If a conviction of this magnitude can be quietly undone, the precedent for every future anti-corruption prosecution will be devastating,” the statement read.
The party also criticized the implementation of Act 1170, assented to on May 11, 2026. It said a mandatory one-year “Pre-Bar Course” introduced on June 12, 2026 through transitional directives was “ultra vires,” arguing the Act provides only for the LLB programme, Law Practice Training, and the National Bar Examination.
The NPP said the directives’ conflict with the Act’s transitional provisions were issued before the Council for Legal Education and Training (CLET) was constituted, and lack supporting regulations.
It added that the directives “merely redistribute a backlog of some 5,000 to 8,000 graduates” that existing institutions cannot absorb.
The statement further accused state agencies, including EOCO, BNI, National Security, and the Police of being “turned against political opponents, journalists and commentators” through “Rambo-style” arrests and punitive bail conditions.
It also cited the Attorney-General’s termination of several high-profile prosecutions inherited from the previous administration, which it said resulted in acquittals under Act 30.
The NPP pointed to the conversion of the uniBank prosecution into a “privately negotiated settlement” and claimed the Saglemi case “lay dormant.”
It also referenced the Supreme Court’s decision to set aside a bench warrant against what it described as “fugitives of justice connected with the NDC.”
The party called on the government to allow Tamakloe’s sentence to stand “free of any extra-judicial interference” and to suspend the “unlawful Pre-Bar regime.”
It urged that legal education reform be placed on “a sound statutory footing,” including the constitution of CLET and the making of regulations before further implementation.
“The Ghanaian people deserve assurance that hard-won convictions will not be undone by political expediency, and that the law will protect all equally,” the statement said.
