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September 2, 2025
The Minority caucus has noted that the removal of the Chief Justice, Getrude Torkonoo is a flagrant assault on the judiciary by the head of the Executive branch of government and brings into sharp the destruction of the state institution by the NDC administration.
According to the Minority from President John Dramani Mahama’s address to NDC lawyers and claims by its Chairman Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the CJ and Electoral Commission chair must be removed at all costs during the 2024 campaign.
Legal counsel to the Minority John Darko in a statement noted that the removal of the CJ forms part of the grand agenda to enable the NDC government run the country as a gangster town and joins unenviable group of nations like Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka which have removed their Chief Justice for political purpose.
“KNOW YE ALL MEN that the removal of the CJ has nothing to do with legal constitutional process, it has everything to do with politics and the president’s inordinate desire to control all the levels of government. It is a judicial coup clothed in flawed constitutional procedures”.
And by this singular act, the president has set the country back in our democratic process and well-meaning Ghanaians, chief, clergy and the media must condemn this coup in no uncertain terms, he added.
Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/Ghanamps.com