Loss Is Not Crime, and Data Is Not Proof: The Constitutional Discipline of Inference in Ghana’s Accountability State

Ghana stands at a moment when its capacity to see and to record is growing faster than its jurisprudence of what seeing and recording can prove. The bills now before Parliament and the statutes recently enacted will determine how that capacity is organised, while the courts will determine how it is disciplined. Digital Justice in Ghana and Public Financial Crime in Ghana are offered to both, as an argument that the accountability state Ghana is building will be worthy of the name only if it holds itself to the same standard of custodianship that it demands of those it accuses. Loss is not crime, and data is not proof; between each pair lies the work of reason, and that work belongs to the law.