A justice of the High Court (name withheld) has threatened to remove electrical extension boards, if the Ministry Justice fails to improve facilities in the courtroom.

According to the judge, the electrical extension boards being used by the court were purchased to by him to be used personally but was compelled by the circumstances to give out to be used by the court.

His lordship stated that these circumstances were after several failed attempts to get the attention of the ministry to fix the broken facilities in the court.

He told a Senior State Attorney after a hearing that one day, he will be compelled to remove the extension boards and everything will be grant to a halt.

At the time of expression his frustration, one of the two monitors that enable lawyers to follow proceedings was off, due to lack of power supply from the main switch.

The court is located in the Law Court Complex, which almost all the elevators and the air cooling systems are not functioning.

Some of the courts with malfunction air conditioners had to fall on nature for assistance.

This, therefore, raises the question whether Ghana’s most endemic disease, poor maintenance culture, is catching up with the Judicial Service to keep the magnificent Law Court Complex in shape.