2 w. ago Livestream: Newsfile discusses CJ probe, EC heads removal talks, BoG staff termination

This Saturday on Newsfile, host Samson Lardy Anyenini and his panelists are discussing the unfolding removal process of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, including her recent press conference where she accused the inquiry committee of procedural breaches and announced applications for judicial review to declare the proceedings void. Also this week, Chairman of the National Democratic Congress […]

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2 w. ago Playback: Newsfile discussed CJ probe, EC heads removal talks

This Saturday on Newsfile, host Samson Lardy Anyenini and his panelists are discussing the unfolding removal process of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, including her recent press conference where she accused the inquiry committee of procedural breaches and announced applications for judicial review to declare the proceedings void. Also this week, Chairman of the National Democratic Congress […]

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2 w. ago I won’t follow your path in correcting falsehoods – Kwaku Azar tells Torkornoo

One of the petitioners seeking the removal of suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has responded to her recent media briefing, stressing that he remains committed to the constitutional process and will not publicly refute her claims.

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2 w. ago I won’t follow your path in correcting falsehoods – CJ removal petitioner tells Torkornoo

One of the petitioners seeking the removal of suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has responded to her recent media briefing, stressing that he remains committed to the constitutional process and will not publicly refute her claims.

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2 w. ago This Saturday on Newsfile: CJ probe, EC heads removal talks, BoG staff termination

This Saturday on Newsfile, host Samson Lardy Anyenini and his panelists are discussing the unfolding removal process of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, including her recent press conference where she accused the inquiry committee of procedural breaches and announced applications for judicial review to declare the proceedings void.

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2 w. ago Silence is not weakness but strength – Amanda Clinton to Chief Justice

Head of Chambers at Clinton Consultancy, Amanda Clinton, has asserted that it would be better for suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo to avoid public pronouncements and rather focus on her defence to a committee set up to examine petitions for her removal. Ms Clinton, a private legal practitioner, was responding to the Chief Justice’s press […]

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2 w. ago NDC’s push to remove Chief Justice threatens democracy – Miracles Aboagye warns

Director of Communications for the 2024 Bawumia Campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has raised alarm over what he describes as ongoing efforts by the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo from office.

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2 w. ago They have turned my lawyers into Nebuchadnezzar’s Magicians – CJ Torkornoo slams petition committee’s ‘strange’ processes

Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo has launched a blistering critique of the ongoing Article 146 proceedings aimed at her removal from office, likening the treatment of her legal team to that of biblical magicians asked to reveal and interpret Nebuchadnezzar’s dream he had yet to disclose. Delivering a national address on Wednesday, June 25, the embattled Chief Justice described the removal process as unconstitutional, opaque, and deeply flawed — particularly in its treatment of her legal counsel, whom she said have been forced to operate blindly.

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2 w. ago There has never been the removal of a Chief Justice in Ghana’s 68 years of history

The suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, has highlighted a troubling first in Ghana’s history, stating that in all of the country’s 68 years as an independent republic, there has never been the removal of a Chief Justice. In her address during a press conference held in Accra on Wednesday, June 25, she expressed the hope […]

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2 w. ago My potential removal sets a bad precedent for judicial independence – Justice Torkornoo

The Suspended Chief Justice, Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, has cautioned that the process to remove her from office could have far-reaching implications for the entire judicial and constitutional framework of the country.

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2 w. ago Every step taken to remove me breached the constitution – Suspended CJ Torkonoo

The suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, has said that every step taken to remove her from office by the new John Mahama-led government has breached the Constitution of the Republic.

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3 w. ago Nii Adama Latse II wins appeal: Court orders House of Chiefs to restore him to register – But Ga Mantse office says King Teiko Tsuru II remains Chief

The Court of Appeal has ordered the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi, to restore Nii Tackie Adama Latse II to the national register of chiefs as the Ga Mantse (the Paramount Chief of the Ga State) within 14 days.  Upholding a High Court ruling which gave the order in November 2021, the second highest court of the land sitting in Kumasi unanimously held that the National House of Chiefs, Kumasi, removed Nii Latse II’s name from the register without any evidence that he had been validly destooled, a prerequisite for removing a chief’s name from the national register.

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