The opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the ruling National Democratic Congress, NDC, government of “weaponising institutions” and applying selective justice since taking office in January 2025, citing the conviction of former MASLOC boss, Sedina Tamakloe and changes to legal education reforms as evidence of eroding rule of law.
In a press statement issued by its Policy Secretariat, the NPP said it had observed “a deliberate weakening of the institutions that protect the rule of law and equal accountability, with one rule emerging for opponents of the Government and another for its allies.”
The statement was signed by Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi, MP and Co-Chair of the Constitutional & Legal Affairs Policy Committee.
“Selective justice” allegations
The NPP alleged that since January 2025, the Economic and Organised Crime Office, EOCO, Bureau of National Investigations, National Security and Police had increasingly targeted political opponents, journalists and commentators through “‘Rambo-style’ arrests, dawn raids and punitive bail conditions.”
It also criticised the Attorney-General for terminating several high-profile corruption prosecutions inherited from the previous administration after accused persons opened their defence, saying that under Act 1170 the result was an acquittal barring future trial on the same facts.
The party cited the Unibank prosecution, which it said was “converted into a privately negotiated settlement while the Saglemi case lay dormant,” and said the Supreme Court set aside a bench warrant against fugitives connected with the NDC.
Focus on Sedina Tamakloe case
The NPP raised “gravest concern” over efforts it said were designed to help former Microfinance and Small Loans Centre, MASLOC, chief executive Sedina Tamakloe Attionu evade her 10-year jail term.
Tamakloe was convicted in absentia on June 9, 2026 under Article 19(3) of the Constitution after failing to return from medical treatment in the United States.
She was extradited from the US to Ghana, the statement said, to serve a sentence over a 78-count charge sheet involving stealing, conspiracy, causing financial loss to the state and money laundering.
The High Court had found a loss of nearly GHC 90 million.
“Every convicted person retains a lawful right of appeal, but we caution against any extra-judicial intervention, whether administrative, political or discretionary, to neutralise a final sentence outside the appellate process,” the NPP said, warning that such a precedent “can be devastating” for future anti-corruption prosecutions.
Criticism of legal education reforms
The party also condemned the implementation of the Legal Education Act, 2026 (Act 1170), accusing the Director of the Ghana School of Law of introducing a mandatory one-year “Pre-Bar Course” on June 12, 2026 through “transitional directives.”
The NPP argued that Act 1170 provides only for the LLB programme, Law Practice Training and the National Bar Examination, and that the new “Pre-Bar” stage is ultra vires and amounts to an amendment of the statute by “administrative fiat.” It said the directive, issued in the name of the yet-to-be-constituted Council for Legal Education and Training, CLET, conflicts with transitional provisions and places thousands of law graduates in a “regulatory vacuum.”
Call to government
The NPP called on the government to allow Tamakloe’s lawful sentence to stand “free of any extra-judicial interference” and to suspend the “unlawful Pre-Bar regime” until CLET is constituted and regulations are made.
“The Ghanaian people deserve assurance that hard-won convictions will not be undone by political expediency, and that the law will protect all equally,” it said.
