The Involved Girls’s Group of the Central Area has kicked towards the petitions to take away the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, from workplace.
Consequently, it has referred to as on all girls and ladies teams within the nation to face up and be counted within the face of what it termed, creeping cloud of darkness, ostensibly intended to engulf the progress up to now made in girls empowerment.
It additionally referred to as on the Council of State to see by means of the traces, and with none hesitation step in to stop this elimination course of because it gained’t heal and unite the nation.
At a press briefing held at Cape Coast, the spokesperson for the Involved Girls’s Group within the Central Area, Miss Vivian Fuelsor, defined that the group was extraordinarily apprehensive that such strikes could also be embarked upon, not for the great of it, however purely, patently, and undoubtedly for a parochial finish.
“We, as a involved girls’s group within the Central Area, have been apprehensive and disturbed because the announcement of that the President had forwarded three petitions searching for the elimination of the Chief Justice to the Council of State,” she emphasised.
Ms Gassor mentioned the group was not opposed attributable to democratic course of as laid down by the 1992 Republican Structure and would chorus from questioning any citizen’s democratic proper to provoke and activate any such course of prescribed by the structure. Nevertheless, she harassed that the nation had over time grappled with issues of girls empowerment, development and improvement, notably within the public sphere, in respect of chiefship roles.
“The fairly reawakening in our lengthy battle and quest for a must have girls sit on the decision-making desk within the governance of our nation” she indicated.
Moreover, she added that it was the agency perception of the group that, although they wished, as girls, and certainly, as a rustic, to have gone cross this stage, they nonetheless imagine that some good progress was being made, and nonetheless hope for an enchancment.
“This in our candid perception and estimation is just not a mere wishful, fanciful and romantic want only for the sake of it, however the information is undisputed in all places that each one societies that been consciously inclusive, harnessing the skills and energies of all their residents have witnessed improvement and progress at a sooner tempo,” she said.
Ms Gassor once more mentioned: “It’s in mild of this, and extra importantly, the necessity to keep away from setting the clock of progress backwards, that we really feel apprehensive and disturbed, and rightly so, given the potential for the abuse of this course of for the elimination of the Honourable Chief Justice.”
The resounding help given to the President, John Dramani Mahama, within the 2024 normal election, she underscored the necessity for his administration to pool the efforts of all Ghanaians regardless of political, ethnic and non secular affiliation to assist in nation constructing makes the method to take away the chief Justice from workplace is pointless.
Image: Miss Vivian Gassor, spokesperson for the Involved Girls’s Group within the Central area, the assertion of the group in the course of the occasion
FROM DAVID O. YARBOI-TETTEH, CAPE COAST
