{"id":194899,"date":"2025-03-29T22:49:06","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:49:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-help-purge-judiciary-of-perceived-corruption-tag-president-to-gba\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:49:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:49:06","slug":"ghana-help-purge-judiciary-of-perceived-corruption-tag-president-to-gba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-help-purge-judiciary-of-perceived-corruption-tag-president-to-gba\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Help Purge Judiciary of Perceived Corruption Tag &#8211; President to GBA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to help purge the judiciary of perceived corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The President said the perception of corruption in the judiciary as contained in multiple surveys was worrying and could dampen confidence in the arm of government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">&#8220;Several surveys asking the public for their opinion on the judiciary have not been positive. It is our duty to work together to ensure we have a judiciary that is respected,&#8221; the President said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">He made this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280315.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) to help purge the judiciary of perceived corruption. The President said the perception of corruption in the judiciary as contained in multiple surveys was worrying and could dampen confidence in the arm of government. &#8220;Several surveys asking the public for their opinion on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":194900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,4723,32654,4508,4509,9830,257,9030,2450,14983,254,13088],"class_list":["post-194899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-corruption","tag-gba","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-judiciary","tag-news","tag-perceived","tag-president","tag-purge","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tag"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}