The recent petitions calling for the removal of the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, have sparked conversations about judicial independence and the the executive influence over the judiciary.
While her fate remains uncertain, history is a reminder of a precedent in 1963, when Ghana's first African Chief Justice of the Gold Coast, Sir Kobina Arku Korsah, was removed from office by Dr .
According to a report by ghanaianmuseum.com, in 1962, Sir Arku Korsah presided over a trial of suspects involved in the Kulungugu Bomb Attack, which was a failed assassination attempt on Dr .
In December 1963, Sir Arku Korsah delivered a verdict acquitting three of the accused persons.
