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Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, The Former Chief Justice, Built The Foundation Of Akufo Addo's Agyapadie Legacy

Feature Article Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, The Former Chief Justice, Built The Foundation Of Akufo Addos Agyapadie Legacy
THU, 22 AUG 2024

Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, who was born in Toase, in the Ashanti Region of Ghana, began his legal career as a private practitioner. He then worked as a High Court judge for twenty years until taking the bench in 2002. In December 2019, the president, Akufo Addo, appointed him Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. However up to his retirement because of his involvement in a $5 million scandal, the Chief Justice fully endorsed Akufo Addo's interests like all of his appointees.

The Chief Justice is appointed to the highest court position in the country, with the authority to handle civil cases, settle economic disputes, and handle criminal, administrative, and other cases. He was supposed to sit in courts of general jurisdiction and arbitration, established under constitutional law, and exercise judicial power through these proceedings, but Anin-Yeboah served with discrimination. Since his appointment was based on political influence, he neglected Ghanaians in favor of Akufo Addo.

When cases were brought before Justice Anin-Yeboah in the Supreme Court, people who knew they were innocent but knew they would not prevail in court felt hesitant to take their cases to the highest court. As a result, there was never a victory for any individual in the opposition or against the ruling government. This became a worrying trend in Ghana. The goal of Akyapadie's book, which was to seize control of the state and its resources, was never disclosed to Ghanaians as a basis for his services.

Like other judges, Kwasi Anin-Yeboah, the Chief Justice, took an oath to defend and uphold the rights of Ghanaians but he never followed through on it. He keeps abusing his position of authority and depriving the weak of justice. As one of the most dishonest Chief Justices in Ghanaian political history, the Chief Justice contributed significantly to the country's current political and economic crises while upholding Akufo Addo's legacy by honoring the Agyapadie book's conception.


Though free and fair elections are uncommon in Africa, the 2020 presidential election in Ghana can be considered the most dishonest in the country's political history. The head of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensah, was unable to even explain to the people of Ghana how she arrived at the numbers that represented the votes. She changed the results four times, admitting her errors. Yet, the Chief Justice, Anin-Yeboah, prevented her from testifying in court, when she was challenged for declaring Akufo Addo a winner.

Akufo Addo only appoints people who will benefit him due to nepotism and corruption. This is the reason he named Anin-Yeboah as Chief Justice and his relative Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister. The president gains from the Chief Justice's efforts while the rest of Ghanaians continue to suffer because he doesn't care about the ordinary people, what he cares about is what favors him. Ghanaians should have observed this a long time ago to stop it, but they never did, while the abuse of power continues.

When the contentious E-Levy was put out in parliament, most Ghanaians who had no interest in it rejected it. Additionally, the E-Levy's passage was thwarted by the Minority in Parliament since it is an illegitimate method of taxing the impoverished. After a gravely ill MP was transported from his home in an ambulance to the Parliament to approve the E-Levy, Akufo Addo and Anin-Yeboah skillfully maneuvered their way through to impose the tax on the impoverished citizens of Ghana.

Akufo Addo had a burning ambition to be president for various reasons, one of which was to honor his family, J. B. Danquah in particular; who he felt had been wrongfully overlooked by Kwame Nkrumah or history. I won't argue about whether it’s true or not, but if the president truly wanted to honor his family, why wouldn't he create institutions or monuments to uplift their image instead of renaming already-existing institutions in their honor? In my opinion, that is laziness and incompetence.

As the Agyapadie book's prophecy indicates, it is also possible that Akufo Addo had the plan to seize the state long before he was elected president. The president behaved more like a despot than a leader of a democracy, motivated as he was by the ideas found in that awful book to carry out those duties. Akufo Addo also used political maneuvering to remove Charlotte Osei, who has never committed any electoral offenses, so that Jean Mensa could carry out the Agyapadie idea.

While Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah has retired, Jean Mensa remains in position and continues to carry out his evil schemes for her master, the little Akufo Addo. However, the public doesn’t know that the EC head is under heavy pressure and considers her life in danger since Ghanaians learned about the Agyapadie book. In Ghana's political history, Jean Mensa is now viewed as the contemporary Jezebel, whose life would sadly end if she attempts to rig the polls a third time.

I owe a debt of gratitude to Ghanaians and readers who trust my writings. I began warning people about Akufo Addo and the country's impending collapse more than six years ago, and everything has finally come to pass. Similarly, I would alert them about Bawumia, as he has nothing to offer Ghanaians and has assisted the state in realizing the Agyapadie ideology.

Joel Savage
Joel Savage, © 2024

Belgian‑Ghanaian journalist Joel Savage writes the column “A Mixture of Periodicals.” A former member of the Flemish Journalists Association, he has contributed to the Weekly Spectator, Ghanaian Times, Daily Graphic and The Mirror.Column: Joel Savage

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