Legal practitioner and civil society advocate, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, has described the press conference by the beleaguered Chief Justice, Justice Getrude Torkornoo, on June 25, 2025, as an "award-worthy performance fit for the National Theatre." In a witty post on his X account on Wednesday, June 25, Barker-Vormawor dragged the suspended Chief Justice for abandoning legal reasoning in favour of "emotional appeals, ghost stories, and historical grievances." "What should have been a sober legal address turned into a monologue soaked in self-pity and grandeur," he wrote.
He mocked her claims of persecution, discomfort with security procedures, and symbolic concerns about the venue of the hearing, describing them as "excessive and theatrical." "If democracy, justice, and oxygen are all under threat because you can't sit next to your husband at a hearing, then maybe we've lost the plot," he quipped.
He further criticised the Chief Justice's references to spiritual oppression and the citation of historical poems, suggesting such references were exaggerated and inappropriate for the occasion. "If the process is flawed, challenge it at the appropriate forum but don't take the judiciary on a tour of self-pity through the streets of public sympathy," he wrote.
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