Ofoase Ayirebi MP Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has sued Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie at the Supreme Court over administrative warrants directing selected High Court judges to hear criminal cases during the legal vacation.

The writ, filed on Friday, August 14, 2026, also names Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Dominic Ayine as a defendant.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah is invoking the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction under Articles 2(1) and 130(1) of the 1992 Constitution and wants the warrants covering the August 1 to September 30, 2026 legal vacation declared unconstitutional and null and void.

He argues that prioritising selected criminal cases amounts to selective justice and violates Article 17(1) of the Constitution.

“The action of the Honourable Chief Justice to promote and facilitate the hearing of ‘special criminal cases’ in the legal vacation to the total neglect of other criminal cases is tantamount to selective justice which contravenes the letter and spirit of Article 17(1) of the Constitution 1992 and, therefore, unconstitutional, null and void,” he said.

Mr Oppong Nkrumah said he was not challenging the Chief Justice’s authority to administer the Judiciary or regulate court sittings.

“It is a cardinal principle of Ghana’s constitutional order that every constitutional power, however extensive, is subject to the supremacy of the Constitution,” he noted.

He further argued that the warrants unfairly prioritise some criminal cases over others.

“The impugned warrants have the practical effect of according priority to selected criminal cases while other pending criminal cases remain outside the scope of the warrants,” he said.

He is asking the Supreme Court to determine whether the Chief Justice’s decision to issue the warrants is constitutionally valid.