Former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has filed a case before the High Court seeking to stop the vetting and subsequent appointment of Justice Baffoe-Bonnie as the next Chief Justice of Ghana.
Madam Torkornoo, who was also removed as a justice of the Supreme Court, is praying the High Court to quash all proceedings of the Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang Committee established under Article 146 to consider petitions for her removal.
In her case, she is asking the High Court to set aside all proceedings conducted by the Committee tasked with investigating petitions for her removal. [This sentence is repetitive and can be deleted as the preceding paragraph covers it.
She is also requesting that the Presidential Warrant that removed her from office be declared unlawful, null, void, and of no effect.
President John Dramani Mahama, in accordance with Article 146(9) of the 1992 Constitution, removed the Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, from office in September.
He took the action after receipt of the report of the Committee constituted under Article 146(6) to inquire into a petition submitted by a Ghanaian citizen, Mr Daniel Ofori. After considering the petition and the evidence, the Committee found that the grounds of stated misbehaviour under Article 146(1) had been established and recommended her removal from office.
