Chief Justice Baffoe-Bonnie commends public institutions, questions Ghana’s performance over past eight years

Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has commended the Minerals Income Investment Fund (MIIF) and other public institutions for what he described as significant improvements in their performance under the current administration.

Speaking during a visit to MIIF on Wednesday, September 2, the Chief Justice said some of the developments he had witnessed had prompted him to question Ghana’s performance over the previous eight years.

He expressed satisfaction with the work being done at MIIF and said information gathered during an earlier visit to the Social Security and National Insurance Trust (SSNIT) had further strengthened his positive assessment of some state institutions.

“I must congratulate you. I mean, you have done marvellously well. See, because sometimes when we hear the things that you have done, the things that some organisations are doing now, we wonder; some of us keep wondering what really we have been doing in the past eight years,” he said.

According to the Chief Justice, what he heard about SSNIT was particularly revealing, especially considering previous discussions about the possible sale of some of the institution’s major assets.

He cited Labadi Beach Hotel as an example, questioning how the country had reached a point where SSNIT was considering disposing of some of its prized assets.

“We’ve just come back from SSNIT, we went to SSNIT this morning, and the kind of things that we heard, and we hear, we even heard before we went there, what we were told, if you compare that to the fact that not too long ago, SSNIT was preparing to sell its prized assets like Labadi Beach Hotel, you wonder how Ghana could have sunk so low,” he added.

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