Supreme Court unanimously dismisses Torkornoo’s injunction application

Suspended Chief Justice Torkornoo filed an application challenging to hearing on her removal

The suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornor, has suffered yet another defeat in her attempt to halt the proceedings by the five-member committee set up to probe the three petitions seeking her removal.

On Wednesday, May 28, the Supreme Court unanimously dismissed her injunction application against the committee.

This ruling was delivered a few hours after her supplementary affidavit was also struck out unanimously by the Court.

Background

Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, on May 21, filed an application at the Supreme Court seeking to restrain a committee set up by President John Mahama to investigate petitions seeking her removal from office.https://www.youtube.com/embed/jirZFpuILMY?si=dwjOxLYCdt0u9ant

In the suit, she requested an interlocutory injunction to halt all proceedings of the committee, pending the final determination of the case.

According to Court documents, the Chief Justice wanted the Supreme Court to issue an order restraining the six-member committee, composed of Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, as well as Daniel Yao Domelevo, Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dziasah, from proceeding with any inquiry related to the petitions brought against her.

The application also sought to bar Justices Pwamang and Adibu-Asiedu from presiding or participating in any deliberations of the committee.

Further, the Chief Justice was also asking the court to suspend the operation of the warrant for her suspension issued by the President under Article 146(10) of the Constitution until a final determination is made on the matter.

Other legal actions taken by some individuals and a group at the Supreme Court against the processes so far by the Committee have been dismissed.