Suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, has filed a legal challenge at the Supreme Court seeking to block an ongoing inquiry into petitions for her removal from office.
In an application filed on Wednesday, 21 May 2025, Justice Torkornoo is requesting an interlocutory injunction to stop all proceedings by a committee established by President John Mahama. The committee was set up to investigate multiple petitions calling for her dismissal.
Court documents reveal that the Chief Justice wants the Supreme Court to issue an order restraining the six-member committee — which includes Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, alongside Daniel Yao Domelevo, Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dziasah — from continuing with the inquiry.
The application further asks the Court to bar Justices Pwamang and Adibu-Asiedu from participating in or presiding over the committee’s deliberations.
Justice Torkornoo is also seeking the suspension of the presidential warrant that led to her removal under Article 146(10) of the Constitution, pending the outcome of the case.
Her legal team, Dame and Partners, is expected to move the application in the coming days.
This legal manoeuvre follows two separate suits dismissed earlier on the same day by the Supreme Court. In one case, the Court rejected an application by private citizen Theodore Kofi Atta-Quartey, who had sought to challenge the process that could lead to the Chief Justice’s removal.
In another ruling, the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems (CenCES) failed in its attempt to reverse the President’s suspension of the Chief Justice. By a 4–1 majority, the five-member panel ruled that the President had acted within constitutional bounds, allowing the committee to proceed with its work.
Justice Yaw Asare Darko was the lone dissenter in both rulings, which otherwise included Justices Paul Baffoe-Bonnie (Presiding), Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Yonny Kulendi, and Henry Anthony Kwofie.
Source:TheDotNews