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Former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has joined pensioners picketing the Finance Ministry demanding that they be exempted from the controversial Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).

Mrs Akuffo was seen holding a placard with the inscription ‘We depend our bond yields to pay our rent, medical bills, electricity bills and water bills".

Speaking to journalists, the former Chief Justice said: "These are all people who have worked, they have worked very hard, they could have left the country when others were going but they stayed, they worked for the nation. We have had our ups and downs. A lot of us were from generations where we were encouraged to save for tomorrow and all that. We have been through times where all your savings become nonsense because of some government policies, then over the years, bit by bit, people have become more confident in the economy and investments".