A former Director of the Ghana College of Regulation, Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has acknowledged that the elimination of Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, didn’t breach any constitutional provisions.
In keeping with him, President John Dramani Mahama acted lawfully, and at no stage within the course of was there proof that the President flouted constitutional guidelines.
Talking in an interview with Pleasure Information, Mr Ansa-Asare remarked:
For those who allege that your constitutional rights are being violated, and also you your self, as head of the judiciary, don’t perceive the ramifications of the Chief Justice elimination course of, you find yourself capturing your self within the foot.
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He added that Ghanaians ought to embrace the choice as an indication of democracy at work:
I’ve mentioned this many instances and I don’t assume we needs to be unhappy about this. We should always quite be pleased that the Structure is working. That is democracy, and if the President has to behave, each step he takes should be in accordance with the Structure.
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Mr Ansa-Asare additional harassed:
Thus far, I’m but to be satisfied that the President has contravened the constitutional course of. Nobody has been in a position to pinpoint precisely the place President Mahama has gone mistaken.
President John Dramani Mahama, in step with Article 146(9) of the 1992 Structure, eliminated Chief Justice Torkornoo from workplace with speedy impact on Monday, 1 September. This adopted the submission of a report by the Committee established beneath Article 146(6) to research a petition filed by Ghanaian citizen, Mr Daniel Ofori.
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A press release signed by the Minister of Authorities Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, confirmed that the Committee had discovered grounds of acknowledged misbehaviour beneath Article 146(1) and advisable her elimination.
The choice, nevertheless, has generated blended reactions, with critics together with former Deputy Lawyer-Normal Alfred Tuah Yeboah describing it as politically motivated and a risk to judicial independence.
