Solomon Owusu has questioned former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo’s credibility after she publicly defended embattled Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
Owusu insisted that Akuffo’s defense lacked merit, drawing on her own past judicial decisions for contrast.
“She didn’t have basis for what she said. You, on the matter of procurement alone, she single-handedly determined the Prime Minister’s case using the same Article 146.
And in 2017, somewhere in July, she, through the Judicial Secretary, warned every Ghanaian that she wouldn’t dare comment about what the committee was doing about Charlotte Osei’s case—we would all be in prison.
This former Chief Justice told us that.”
Taking issue with Akuffo’s dismissal of allegations leveled against Justice Torkornoo, Owusu argued that it was unacceptable for someone of her stature to downplay such matters.
“What is so trivial about travelling with your husband and daughter when they are not supposed to be part of it, and giving them per diem?
“You and I are tax revenue. Someone who is supposed to know does this, and you say, oh, it’s trivial. What are you talking about?”, he said in interview on GHOne TV monitored by MyNewsGh.
He went further, urging state authorities to investigate Akuffo’s tenure as Chief Justice.
“I will call on the State Security Agencies to begin to go and investigate her time as the Chief Justice. Because it means she did worse if she finds all these things are trivialities. It’s a serious crime. If you are the Chief Justice, someone that can imprison someone, your bar is so high.”
