Former Chief Justice Madam Sophia Akuffo has served notice of her intention to use her voice to speak on matters of national interest.
The respected former second female CJ says that her participation in the picketing by the pensioner bondholders has influenced her to do more.
Madam Akuffo said she has rested enough after her retirement and feels obligated to use the life God has granted her to speak about the ills going on in the country.
“Don’t you ever feel empathy with people or with persons, with causes or with groups who have nothing to do with you? Who are not necessarily in the same position as they are?
“Well, I am. In part because I do have some government bonds that I used my pension money to purchase, but even if I didn’t, what is wrong with that? Can’t a person take a stand out of principle?
“If by the grace of God, I’ve got a voice why shouldn’t I use it? In fact, I’ve decided that after this I am always going to find a voice to espouse. Why shouldn’t I? I think that is why God has given me life beyond retirement and I think that every day after retirement I must use it to worship God,” she said during an interview on Joynews (February 15).
“That is why I have decided that yeah, I have rested enough since retiring and the strength I have, I am going to use it positively as much as I can. It is that we like to package people into silos; this one is this and should be doing this, this one that and ought to be that, this one is related to this person and so this is how the person should be thinking.
“Nobody tells me what to think, except God and nobody can tell me what to do with my time and what to say about anything going on in this country. Thank God we have a constitution, flawed though it might be but at least the right to say what I want to say and the freedom of conscience, that’s mine and nobody will trample on it however influential they are,” she said.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
