Chief Justice commissions North Tongu Circuit Court

The Chief Justice, His Lordship Kwasi Anin Yeboah on Tuesday, commissioned a circuit court at Kluma Dorfor, one of the towns in the North Tongu district of the Volta Region.

The court is the second facility to be commissioned in the district, under the government’s 100 courts project.

The Member of Parliament for the area, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said in a tweet yesterday; “The Chiefs & People of my beloved constituency today hosted His Lordship Justice Anin Yeboah, Ghana’s Chief Justice, other judges of the superior courts, Registrar and staff of the Judicial Service on the occasion of the commissioning of a Circuit Court House in Kluma.”

Background

Efforts to ensure access to justice through court infrastructure in various districts stepped up especially last year with the inauguration of newly built court edifices. Of the lot, these included a new High Court at Sowutuom, in the Ga-Central Municipality, a court facility at the Nadowli-Kaleo District of the Upper West Region, a High court with additional responsibility as a child-friendly gender-based violence Circuit court in Nalerigu, the regional capital of the North-East Region and a Circuit court at Dansoman in Accra.

The highlight of these was the inauguration of the new Court of Appeal complex in Kumasi, together with twenty (20) townhouses and a guesthouse to serve as permanent residence for Justices of the Court of Appeal serving the northern sector of the country. 

In March 2022, during the State of the Nation’s Address, President Akufo-Addo indicated that his government began a project to provide 100 courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates across the country. 

“We have embarked on a project to provide one hundred (100) courthouses and accompanying residences for judges and magistrates around the country. Fifty of them are being built and are near completion, and should be handed over to the Judiciary soon,” President Nana Addo said in March 2022.