Legon Ransford Yaw Gyampo, a professor at the University of Ghana, has replied to statements made by National Security Minister Albert Kan Dapaah concerning his observations of recent judicial judgements.
"Injustice precipitated as a consequence of the absence of an effective justice delivery system, delayed justice, or biased justice is clearly a danger to national security," Mr Kan Dapaah remarked during a sensitization session on the national security strategy for judges of the superior courts.
"When injustice abounds, particularly when the court, which is regarded the last arbitrator of conflicts, is perceived to be biased," he added, "people prefer to take the law into their own hands most of the time without recourse to established mechanisms of justice delivery."
"If the law is consistently interpreted in our favor, people will begin to accuse the judiciary and lose the faith that they require," he warned.
However, this has sparked a debate.
"Justices or judges of our courts do not deliver justice in unison with whichever political party holds the reins of government," said Frank Davies, leader of the NPP's Legal Committee. So, who decides who has skewed the law in our favor?
"To my perspective, anyone who can't comprehend this doesn't merely lack analytical astuteness," Prof Gyampo stated in a statement, wading into the issue. Such a person is also a political baby, a nation-builder, and a major security risk.
For everything, we can't give political opposition or defense. Many problems require elite agreement on which we must never differ, or else our progress toward the development of our democratic processes would be stifled at all times.