John Darko, Legal Counsel for the Minority, has issued a strong caution against any attempts to remove Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, warning that such actions could destabilise Ghana's constitutional democracy.
His comments come in the wake of the Minority's appeal to traditional and religious leaders to intervene and dissuade the President from proceeding with the Chief Justice's removal.
Speaking on Citi FM's Eyewitness News on Wednesday, April 16, Darko underscored the critical role of the judiciary as the last truly independent institution in the country. "We believe that as a country the only institution left which is still independent, is still standing and sacrosanct, is the judiciary.
It is a worry that we are expressing that the moment that we begin this process, it is a serious slope that we are getting our country into. "It will be that every political party when it wins the election is going to get people [to] write a petition for us to remove the Chief Justice," Darko stated.
