Old video of CJ defending her Supreme Court decisions pops up amid calls for her removal
An old video of the Chief Justice, Getrude Torkornoo, defending all the decisions she took in her capacity as head of the Judiciary has resurfaced online amid petitions calling from her removal from office.
The video, which was recorded during a Women’s Leadership Conference in November 2024, was shared by the X page of GNA on Thursday, March 27, 2025.
It captured her speaking about her stance on the legalities of her rulings and all administrative decisions at the Supreme Court.
In her address she stated, “I was reminding myself of recent conversations when people would say to me, you have held up. You have done well in this onslaught, and I realised that what has held me up is assurance of competence. Simply, no decision that I have made in my role as Chief justice or in my capacity as president of a panel of the Supreme Court has come from anything but a knowledge of law.
“No matter how many noises are made, the law is the law, and the only answer one can give to the hand waving is the legal answer, unless we want something else, but I am quite sure that Ghana as a society is not looking for chief justices that bend and give them something other than law”.
President John Dramani Mahama has received three separate petitions seeking the removal of the Chief Justice from office.
In accordance with Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution, he has forwarded the petitions to the Council of State to begin the mandated consultation process.
A statement issued by Spokesperson to the President and Minister of State in charge of Government Communications, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, emphasised the president’s commitment to following constitutional procedures in handling the situation.
This is not the first time calls have been made for her removal. In 2024, former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo received a petition seeking her removal from office over allegations of misconduct and incompetence.
The petition dated December 17, 2024, was filed by a legal scholar, Professor Stephen Kwaku Asare, who accused Justice Torkornoo of constitutional and administrative breaches.
The petitioner argued that these alleged actions undermine the credibility and integrity of the judiciary.
Watch the video below:
Source: www.ghanaweb.com
