Former Director of the Ghana School of Law, Kwaku Ansa-Asare, has criticized suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo’s legal attempt to stop her removal process, describing it as “unconstitutional” and lacking teeth.
“The President has not violated any of the chronological stages in the process. Therefore, it will be a very difficult task for anyone to halt it.
“It will be a very difficult task for anyone to seek to halt the process,” he said in a firm rebuttal.
Taking a further jab at the Chief Justice and her legal team, Ansa-Asare remarked, “What the lawyers are doing at the moment and what the Chief Justice herself has done is to bark but cannot bite; they are merely barking.”
His comments follow a legal application filed at the Supreme Court by Justice Torkornoo, who was suspended by President John Dramani Mahama under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution after receiving three separate petitions for her removal from office.
The embattled Chief Justice is challenging her suspension and is specifically requesting that Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Asiedu be disqualified from participating in the committee investigating the petitions.
She alleges the two Justices held private meetings with a lawyer involved in the matter, raising questions about their impartiality.
In the same suit, Justice Torkornoo is also seeking an interlocutory injunction to halt the ongoing committee inquiry until the court determines the constitutionality of the process.
However, Ansa-Asare insists the process is being carried out by the book and sees no legitimate grounds for the suspension to be reversed or delayed.
