Member of Parliament for Old Tafo Vincent Ekow Assafuah has filed a case at the Supreme Court challenging the ongoing processes to have Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo removed from office.
According to him, he has instructed his lawyers to file a writ at the apex court to have the processes declared unconstitutional.
In a Facebook post announcing the writ, he said: ‘’This morning, I instructed my lawyers to file a writ at the Supreme Court praying the court to declare the consultation processes triggered by the President as Null and Void and of no effect.”
In his reliefs he is seeking a declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of articles 146(1), (2), (4), (6) and (7), 23, 57(3) and 296 of the constitution, the President is mandated to notify the Chief Justice about a petition for the removal of Chief Justice and obtain his or her comments and responses to the content of such a petition before referring the petition to the Council of State or commencing the consultation processes with the Council of State for the removal of the Chief Justice.
He argued that failure by the president to notify the chief justice and obtain his or her comments and responses to a petition for the removal of the chief justice before triggering the consultation process with the Council of State constitutes a violation of article 146 as well as the constitutional protection of the security of tenure of the chief justice who is a justice of the Supreme Court.
