By: Franklin ASARE-DONKOH
Ghana’s Apex Court, the Supreme Court (SC), has set today, Wednesday, May 28, 2025, to hear an injunction application filed by the suspended Chief Justice (CJ), Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, against the Committee of Inquiry probing the petitions seeking her removal.
The interlocutory injunction filed on May 21, 2025, seeks, among other things, to restrain the five-member committee established by President Mahama from continuing with the processes until the matter is finally determined.
She also wants an order by the apex court barring Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Adib-Asiedu, two justices of the Supreme Court appointed as members of the committee, from sitting on the case.
In her affidavit in support, the embattled Chief Justice intimated that the chair of the Committee, Justice Pwamang, has previously adjudicated cases involving one of the petitioners, one Daniel Ofori, and thus should be prohibited from participating.
She again argued that Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu also served as a Supreme Court panel member who presided over a related injunction application.
Justice Torkornoo is also challenging the eligibility of the three remaining Committee members, Daniel Yao Domelovo, Major Flora Bazwaanura Dalugo, and Prof James Sefah Dzisah, under Articles 146(1), (2), (4), 23, and 296 of the Constitution and sections of the Oaths Act, 1972.
