Suspension of Ghana’s chief justice is ‘abuse of power’, says opposition

Ghana’s opposition party MPs violently criticized the suspension of the Chief Justice of the Nara, accusing President John Mahama’s “packed” with the definition of the NDC.

Gertrude Torkornoo was removed from her position on Wednesday. For the first time, the Supreme Court was suspended in the history of this country.

This measure was taken after three petitions were filed with allegations of Torkornoo.

The contents of the petition have not been disclosed and Torkornoo has not yet publicly mentioned the problem.

Mahama’s supporters have sponsored movements over long periods of time to clean the judiciary.

But the opposition party was condemned as “a shameless judicial coup, a reckless administrative power, and a direct assault on the independence of the Ghana judiciary.” MPS said in a statement.

According to the presidency’s statement on Tuesday, the Chief Justice was asked to investigate her charges aside.

After the suspension was announced, the petition was raised twice about Torkornoo.

Former Attorney General Godfred YEBOAH DAME thought that the BBC was the “complete Charade … the biggest attack. [judiciary] In the history of the state “.

Before Torkornoo stopped, the lawyers filed at least two lawsuits to challenge the legitimacy of the president’s procedure.

Under the law, the president had to give a copy of the Chief Justice before he stopped. But later he made them available to her.

According to the opposition MP’s cocus, the Supreme Court suspended the Supreme Court before the ruling of this lawsuit, and Mahama said it violated the enemy legal process.

But some of them support the president’s movement.

Former Dutch Ambassador Tony Aidoo told Radio Station Joy News: “The president thinks that he protects Ghana’s judiciary from the behavior of a person who does not act in the way Ghana’s judiciary.

Some have criticized the Supreme Court for various famous political events with the former president Nana Akufo-Addo and his parties.

For example, last year’s definition The speaker’s decision to declare MP’s position was unconstitutional.

Ghana had 15 major definitions, which included supervising the country’s definition administration.

Those who came before Torkornoo’s retirement were interrupted or permanently removed.

The chief judge can only be removed from the office under some evidence, such as incompetence or malfunction.

Torkornoo is Ghana’s third female chief justice and was nominated by Akufo-Addo in 2023.

According to the Reuters News Agency, Torkornoo survived the retirement request when Akufo-Addo said that there were some “defects” in her petition.

The 5th Industry Committee was now established to investigate the current allegations of Torkornoo.