The minister-designate for communications, digitalisation, and innovation, Samuel Nartey George, has said her views expressed about Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo on the
The Ghanaian anti-LGBT bill, originally known as the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, remains the same and has not changed.
According to the nominee, saying that the Chief Justice was supporting former President Akufo-Addo to support LGBTQ remains unchanged and that he will not apologise.
He was asked by the Member of Parliament for Damango whether he was prepared to apologise for his remarks since it later emerged that the court ruled in favour of the proponents of the bill.
In his response, the nominee said he owes the Chief Justice no apology, and his stance remains the same.
‘’Let me state that I am an elder of a church, and as an elder of the church, my integrity and honesty are key principles that I hold dear. My opinions about the actions and inactions of the Chief Justice remain. They are unchanged, and they have been vindicated by the actions of the chief justice post my demonstration against her. She could have taken action earlier. She held her own horses. My opinion of the Chief Justice remains my opinion today. It doesn’t change.
Background
Lead proponent of the Human Sexual Rights and Family Values Bill, Sam George, in 2024 called out Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo for deliberately delaying the hearing of the anti-LGBT bill brought before the Supreme Court seeking to prevent the President from assenting to it.
The nominee who led a demonstration on Tuesday, October 8, 2024, against the delay in hearing the case admonished the Chief Justice to, as a matter of urgency, produce a timetable for the case to be heard.
Speaking to the media, he said, “They say the wheels of justice grind slow, but in this instance, the wheels of justice are not grinding. The Chief Justice has become an impediment to the wheels of justice.”
He asked her “to either take herself out and allow justice to be done, or the people will take her out.”
“We will compel them; we will continue to raise the heat. The Chief Justice has no option; she should stop calling people and trying to get people to get into meetings to stop this.
“It will happen; she must either do her job or vacate her office for someone willing to do her job.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
