Suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo has raised concerns about the choice of venue for her ongoing trial, claiming it was deliberately selected to intimidate her.
Addressing the media on Wednesday, June 25, 2025, Justice Torkornoo revealed that the proceedings are being held at Adu Lodge, a location she says is closely linked to a traumatic episode in her personal life and in Ghana's judicial history. "I need to make the disclosure at this point that the Adu Lodge facility where I am being tried featured very prominently in the planning of the murder of judges on June 30, 1981," she said.
Justice Torkornoo recounted that one of the victims of the 1981 abductions and killings, Major Sam Acquah, had been her uncle and guardian. "He was the Director of Human Resources at GIHOC and was also my guardian when I entered the University of Ghana in September 1980.
I was living with him at the time he was abducted and murdered," she said.
