My Brother, My Friend, My Comrade, My Lawyer – Justice Sai
There are people whose presence in your life changes everything. Justice Srem-Sai is one of those people for me.
For the last three years, our lives have become so entangled that I can no longer tell where my fight ends and his begins. He has been my anchor in the storm, the voice of reason when the world felt unreasonable. He has picked up my calls at the most ungodly hours, stood beside me in the darkest moments, and shown up for me when it felt like everyone else had disappeared. Even when others wavered—when the weight of it all became too much—Justice stood firm. Without hesitation. Without complaint. Just unwavering, unshakeable loyalty to the values we both hold dear.
Every activist deserves a lawyer like Justice—a lawyer who, even in disagreement, never abandons you. A lawyer who understands that this fight for justice, for democracy, for the soul of this republic, cannot be won through convention alone. That sometimes, the road to redemption requires both the paths well-traveled and the ones no one dares to take.
Without him, there would be no FixTheCountry. No Democracy Hub as we know it. He has fought for us in the courts, in police stations, in the public square. From the very first Supreme Court battle to the last OccupyJulorbiHouse arrests, he has been there. Always there. And when history tells the story of our struggle, it will speak of the Lawyers for Protest Defence—the movement he built to defend the right to assemble, the right to speak, the right to dissent. A movement that, for the first time, marshaled young lawyers to stand as guardians of our democracy.
I love Justice as a brother loves his elder brother. I have looked up to him all my professional life, and I cannot imagine a day when I will not. We share so much that sometimes I wonder if our minds are conjoined, if the thoughts in my head also exist in his. And yet, even in our disagreements, there is beauty. There is respect. There is the kind of intellectual and emotional bond that defies words.
Today, I lose a lawyer. But Ghana gains something far greater—a Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Minister for Justice with an unbreakable spirit and an unshakable moral compass.
May he rise. May he soar. And may this Republic finally know the kind of “Justice” he has fought for all his life.
I am proud beyond words. Kudos to the first FixTheCountry Deputy Attorney-General!
