Accra, June 11, GNA – The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has presented Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) worth GH¢30,000 to the Judicial Service of Ghana at a ceremony in Accra.
The items included gallons of Hand sanitizers, Liquid soaps, paper towels, thermometer guns, Veronica buckets and their stands as well as quantities of face masks.
Presenting the items, Mr. Anthony Forson, President of GBA said as partners in the delivery of justice, the Association needed to support the Judiciary.
“The GBA thought it wise to assist the Judicial Service since we are partners in the justice delivery system. Everybody should chip in something little when we chip in, we get a lot,” he added.
Mr. Forson said “It is common knowledge that COVID-19 has come to stay so everyone has a responsibility for himself and to his neighbour by ensuring that the pandemic did not spread.”
He appealed to all Lawyers to help in the fight against COVID-19.
Mr. Justice Kwasi Anin Yeboah, the Chief Justice, who received the items in the company of other superior court justices, thanked the GBA for the gesture.
Justice Yeboah said nobody could have partnered the judiciary better than the bar in moments like this.
“It is good this presentation is coming from the bar,” the Chief Justice.
He said the Judiciary would ensure that some of the PPE’s gets to courts in remote areas in the country.
GNA