Bolgatanga, Nov.16, – The Chief
Justice, Sophia Akuffo, has assured Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) that all
efforts are put in place under her leadership to ensure that all the courts in the country are accessible
to them
to access justice.
The Chief Justice gave the
assurance when she paid a two-day working visit to the Upper East Region to
assess the situation and condition of the Judiciary Service and to see how to
improve upon the service.
She was responding to some staff
of the Judiciary Service who shared their experiences on how they carried PWDs
to climb stairs to access justice.
“It is part of my topmost
priorities to ensure that all PWDs are able to observe proceedings in the
courts and to access justice without any hindrance”, she stressed.
The Chief Justice acknowledged
the difficulties the PWDs had to go through to access justice at the courts and
promised to resolve the problem.
She said she would see to address
gender imbalances in the Judiciary and appealed to parents to ensure that they
give priority to their daughters’ education so as to help break the gender
imbalances in all spheres of society.
She said women in the country
could play critical roles in justice
delivery just like the men when they were given the necessary education and
encouragement.
The Judiciary Secretary, Justice
Alex Opoku Acheampong, who was with the Chief Justice on the visit to the
region, assured the workers that his outfit would facilitate to ensure that
their demands including; the request for interpreters, rent allowances,
identification cards and the repair of broken machines at the court rooms were
met
GNA
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