Suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkonoo has firmly rejected requires her resignation or voluntary retirement amid ongoing investigations into three separate petitions looking for her removing from workplace.
Addressing a press convention on Wednesday, twenty fifth June, Justice Torkonoo acknowledged that she stays resolute in dealing with her accusers and maintains her innocence. She instructed that the removing course of could also be politically motivated disclosing that she has obtained threats to power her resignation.
She remarked:
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The scenario I’ve been confronted with has proven me a mannequin of injustice that I might by no means have thought potential if I had not been uncovered to it. That is why, regardless of nice private discomfort, I’ve determined to marshal each effort in legislation and management to answer the scenario.
Justice Torkonoo additional asserted that resigning or retiring whereas proceedings underneath Article 146 of the Structure are ongoing is just not an choice out there to any choose or public official.
She added that any such choice will result in the lack of all entitlements:
The swimsuit quantity is J6/02/2019. Once more, nobody has the authority to stroll away from proceedings initiated by the state. Judgements could be entered in opposition to you for failing to defend your self. A choose who resigns or retires underneath such circumstances would lose all entitlements earned over time just because they didn’t defend themselves.
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She added:
It could be that the efforts being made are supposed to frustrate me in order that I resign, in order that the architects of the scheme can return into the media and say that the wild and unfounded allegations weren’t defended as a result of they had been true, and I had no protection to them.
Persevering with her remarks, she stated:
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As Chief Justice of the nation, who has been given the privilege and obligation to guide administration of justice, I mustn’t flip tail and run after I know the implications of not defending false and unwarranted costs. If I resign underneath these circumstances, I will likely be saying that this flawed, unknown and opaque course of is appropriate. It isn’t.
In her tackle, the embattled Chief Justice additionally accused the committee investigating her, chaired by Justice Gabriel Pwamang, of abuse, intimidation, and breaching constitutional processes.
