Petition against CJ: Stand together – Afenyo Markin advises Supreme Court judges

The Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has advised Supreme Cour judges to support each other against any attempt by the Mahama administration to remove the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo.

Mr Afenyo-Markin said the petitions against the Chief Justice, based on which President John Mahama has activated processes for her removal, are “flimsy pedestrian excuses.”

“We are aware of attempts by persons in government to push for the removal of the Chief Justice from office. The judiciary should not be seen as part of the party-political system in our country. All we need is an impartial judiciary to dispense justice. What is happening is unacceptable and it is clear that the NDC wants to infiltrate the judiciary and make it partisan. But my advice to the judiciary is to stand together. Let not somebody create an impression of one of you and think that just be dislodging one of you, you will be the next. The next day, you will be the next,” the Minority Leader said on April 16 in Accra.

He therefore urged Justice Torkornoo’s colleagues on the apex court to solidarise with her.

“The judiciary must stand together as one body and make a full statement and condemn this action. The Ghana Bar Association must stand for the judiciary, Civil Society Organisations must stand for the judiciary,” he charged at a press conference held after a National Executive Committee meeting of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

Mr Afenyo-Markin called on President Mahama to use his final term in office to demonstrate his statesmanship.

“All these flimsy pedestrian excuses, looking at what is out there, you wonder whether these are real grounds for the removal of a chief justice. So, I would plead with President Mahama. This is his last term, so he is no more part of the mainstream politics. He should be looking at leaving a legacy. The hardliners in the NDC should be kept on the fringes. They should not be allowed in the middle to disrupt the governance process. They would want to remove everybody and that will not be good for our democracy,” he stated.

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