The Public Tribunal system has been described as crude, unfair, arbitrary and unjust and must be abolished immediately. In its final communique the NUGS condemned what it termed “the existence of two parallel judiciary in the same nation”.

The Public Tribunals were set up at the beginning of the 31st December Revolution as an alternative to the traditional courts which the revolution described as unfair and an instrument for the bourgeoisie to suppress the ordinary people. The Ghana Bar Association has so far boycotted the Public Tribunals. The NUGS communique also called on the PNDC to release all political detainees still in jail.