Broadcasted by CitiTV Ghana on 21 March 2019:

Ghana’s Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo spoke at Wayamo and AGJA’s international Symposium in Accra.

The Wayamo Foundation, the Africa Group for Justice and Accountability (AGJA) and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung’s Rule of Law Programme for Sub-Saharan Africa held a symposium in Accra, Ghana, on the wide-ranging topic of “West African International Justice – Leadership, Challenges, and Opportunities”, with the aim of examining and exploring the contributions and ongoing challenges facing West Africa in the fight to achieve meaningful justice and accountability for atrocities in the region.

Ghana’s Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, felt that, rather than concentrating solely on the atrocity crimes committed by “political bigwigs” that are of such concern to the wider international community, attention should instead focus on the need for community-wide institutional arrangements to address the types of cross-border crimes that are currently plaguing the region.