No court should grant such orders in two hours – Sory questions Supreme Court decision benefiting Afenyo-Markin

Legal practitioner Thaddeus Sory has alleged that personal interests, rather than national considerations, influenced the actions of Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin during matters relating to the petition against former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo.

Sory claimed that Afenyo-Markin’s involvement had implications for fairness and transparency.

He recounted that his client’s petition referenced Afenyo-Markin directly.

“The Minority Leader was one of the reasons why my client petitioned for the removal of the then Chief Justice. There was a huge count which mentioned his name and mentioned the acts that formed the basis of our petition,” he said on The KSM Show.

Sory also questioned the speed at which the Supreme Court granted reliefs to Afenyo-Markin.

“We said he had set a precedent… by being the only person who, within two hours, was able to get a full panel of the Supreme Court… to give him orders that… no court in the world of the common law jurisdiction will give him,” he noted.

He added that concerns emerged about the relationship between Afenyo-Markin and the Chief Justice.

“People who knew the two of them spoke to me, and said, ‘Don’t you understand that is his sister’,” Sory said. When KSM asked, “Sister, in terms of what?” Sory responded, “That they come from the same place. Two, when her father died, the Minority Leader hosted her visitors.”

Sory further alleged that Afenyo-Markin had commercial interests connected to the judiciary.

“There is now information coming out that services are being rendered in the judicial service which are linked to Afenyo-Markin.

He’s rendering those services and getting commercial profits from them, and huge ones,” he claimed.

He argued that these concerns undermine the public posture adopted by the Minority Leader.

“It has nothing to do with a minority position… he has an interest in her being there,” Sory said, adding that this interest explained why Afenyo-Markin appeared “louder than every other person.”