Details of suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo's response to 3 of the petitions for her removal have been made public.
The responses of Justice Torkornoo were to the petitions filed by a group calling itself the Shining Stars of Ghana; a senior police officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Ayamga Yakubu Akolgo (Esq); and a private citizen, Daniel Ofori.
Shining Stars, who first petitioned the president on February 14, 2025, accused her of breaching the 1992 Constitution of Ghana in her ruling in the suit filed by the current Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, against the Speaker of Parliament, Alban Bagbin, over the declaration of four seats in Parliament as vacant.
In the second petition, which was presented by one Daniel Ofori on Monday, March 17, 2025, Justice Torkornoo is accused of financial misappropriation of about GH¢261,890 and US$30,000 in her foreign trips. "In 2023, the Honourable Chief Justice misappropriated the sum of GH¢261,890.00 of public funds for the benefit of the Chief Justice for her private foreign travel with her husband, Mr Francis Kofi Torkornoo, and her daughter Miss Edem S.A.
