Feature by Mandy Agyemang Suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has reacted to the empaneling of the five-member committee established by President to investigate the petitions filed seeking her removal as Chief Justice.
Her response, outlined in a writ filed at the Supreme Court through her legal team, asserts that the Chairman of the committee, Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, and Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu are not qualified to serve as members of the committee investigating the petitions.
In her writ, Torkornoo argued that, based on a true and proper interpretation of specific provisions of the 1992 Constitution, namely Articles 23, 146(6) and (7), and 296(a) and (b), Justice Pwamang, who is named as the second defendant in the suit, is not qualified to chair the committee.
She justified this position by citing a conflict of interest, noting that Justice Pwamang had previously adjudicated and delivered rulings in favor of one of the petitioners seeking her removal from office. "A declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of articles 23, 146(6) and (7) and 296(a) and (b) of the Constitution, the 2nd defendant, Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, is not qualified to be a chairman or member of the committee set up by the President to inquire into the petitions against the Plaintiff on account of having adjudicated and given various rulings in favour of one of the petitioners, Daniel Ofori in actions filed in the Supreme Court," portions of her writ filed on May 21, 2025 read.
