341:. This allegation was due to a statement he made in a durbar of which he reportedly said; "with the vision of the President and the gains made in his first term, Ghanaians may consider giving him another four years." In his defence he said he, "did not endorse the presidency of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in his personal capacity but was a speech he was elected to read on behalf of the chiefs and people of Afadjato when the President visited the Volta region." He also apologised saying; "In reading that statement, we didn’t intend endorsing the president. Our understanding was that we were wishing him well… If out of political dissatisfaction some people are unhappy with whatever I am supposed to have said then I am sorry." The judge's statement made during the durbar was greeted with criticisms and was widely condemned. The Ghanaian journalist and political analyst,
271:. He served as a justice of the High Court until 2008 when he was appointed a justice of the Appeal Court of Ghana. Between 2008 and 2016, he worked as an Additional High Court Judge, presiding over cases such as Civil, Narcotics, Robbery, and other Violent Crime Cases. In 2009 served as a judge at the Court-sitting of the Justice for all Programme and in 2014, he doubled as the Director of the Remand Prisoners Project.
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He added that the judge had stained his reputation through the alleged endorsement and also opined that if he had the opportunity to advise the president on the matter, he would have told the president to "drop him". The Volta
Regional Chairman of the
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