Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has described as out of place the empaneling of the Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, on the Supreme Court panel that heard an application for the suspension of Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo.
Reacting to the court's majority decision to dismiss the application of his client, Godfred Dame, who had also earlier raised his objection during the proceedings, described Justice Baffoe-Bonnie's inclusion on the panel as a curious case. "I find it quite intriguing to start with that the Acting Chief Justice himself presided over the proceedings, and, as I said, I find it very incongruous because indeed, if at all there is any beneficiary from all of this, it is the Acting Chief Justice.
He is a direct beneficiary of all of these," he stated.
He stated that it is unprecedented and wrong that the Acting Chief Justice, who empaneled the bench, also decided to sit on the case.
