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.

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

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