Former Attorney General and Special Prosecutor Martin Amidu has again fired at Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, accusing her of trying to manipulate public sympathy and undermine constitutional precedent in her legal battle against removal from office.
In a scathing open letter, Amidu condemned the Chief Justice for filing a supplementary affidavit on May 26, 2025-while her initial suit from May 21 was still pending before the Supreme Court-without the court's permission. "The Chief Justice… decided without leave of the Court to file a supplementary affidavit… containing scandalous and vexatious materials not based on facts," Amidu wrote, arguing that the affidavit had been deliberately leaked to the media to stir public sentiment and sway the Court's judgment.
According to Amidu, "She knew [the materials] ought not to form the subject matter of an affidavit to a court of law," yet went ahead in what he described as "a fit of childlike indiscretion to court public support." He explained that the Chief Justice's actions contradicted established Supreme Court decisions that removal petitions against superior court judges must be held in camera, not in the public domain. "The Chief Justice was by her Writ trying to persuade the Supreme Court to overrule three of its own previous decisions and to enable her to be given a public hearing… but disposed to matters… inconsistent with the existing binding decisions of the Court," he argued.
Amidu specifically criticized paragraphs 6 to 11 of the Chief Justice's supplementary affidavit, stating they referred to alleged events from in-camera proceedings of the committee-details that the Supreme Court had ruled in prior cases, including Dery v Attorney-General, must not be disclosed until the proceedings were fully concluded. "She knew they are ethically and professionally prohibited from being made public under the ruse of an affidavit," Amidu wrote.
