The Member of Parliament for Effia Constituency, Lawyer Isaac Boamah Nyarko, has condemned what he described as an “unfortunate attempt” to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkornoo from office.
His comments come in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that unanimously dismissed an interlocutory injunction application filed by the suspended Chief Justice. The application sought to halt the proceedings of a presidential committee set up to investigate petitions for her removal.
Filed on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, Justice Torkornoo’s request aimed to restrain the six-member committee, established by President John Mahama, from continuing any inquiry until her substantive case challenging the committee’s legitimacy is determined.
She had also requested the disqualification of Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu—as well as committee members Daniel Yao Domelevo, Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dziasah—from participating in the investigation.
However, on Wednesday, May 28, the Supreme Court dismissed the application.
The full ruling is expected to be released on June 12, 2025.
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Reacting to the development on Morning Starr with Naa Dede Tettey, Mr. Nyarko described the entire process as unfortunate and lacking merit.
Mr. Nyarko questioned the legitimacy of the grounds cited in the petitions, including travel-related claims, alleged mistreatment in court, and internal judicial transfers.
“I have said that the whole attempt to remove the Chief Justice is unfortunate and posterity will judge everybody. The power to set up a committee and investigate and suspend the chief justice is grounded in the constitution of Ghana. When the framers of the constitution drafted the constitution, I believe that it was never their intention that any frivolous, facetious, capricious petition would be encouraged and entertained. We have all been privy to the issues against the Chief Justice. Travel-payment of allowances or per diem, somebody saying that I went court and I was mistreated, and somebody’s transfer that has been done, etc. and we sit as a country and we think that these grounds are substantial enough for the removal of the Chief Justice, are we serious as a country?”
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He further pointed out that even at the presidency, more significant constitutional breaches have occurred without consequence.
“Go to the presidency today, go and check these minor breaches, even major constitutional breaches have occurred. The President was out of the country, there was no Vice President, the Speaker was out of the country. Who was then the acting president of the country, nobody….”
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/Hamdia Mohammed
