In the quiet hours of a July night in 2026, Ghana's Parliament voted to resurrect a legal instrument its own constitutional reviewers had recommended burying — the public tribunal system, last wielded in 1979 to deliver swift, merciless verdicts that left no acquittals and many orphans. The bill, passed while the country slept, now awaits a presidential signature that will determine whether Ghana's hard-won due process protections endure or yield once more to the seductive logic of expedited justice. History rarely announces its reversals loudly; it tends to slip them through at midnight.
Ghana's Parliament revives public tribunals despite constitutional review rejection
The 1979 June 4th executions resulted in deaths of public officials tried without proper defense; their children remain traumatized by the lack of due process.