BREAKING: Baffoe-Bonnie leads injunction suit against Torkornoo’s removal at Supreme Court

The Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, is starring a recently constituted sheet to preside implicit the proceeding of an injunction suit filed against the removal of suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo.

The caller sheet consists of:

Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie;
Justice Henrietta Mensah Bonsu;
Justice Yonny Kulendi;
Justice Amadu Tanko; and
Justice Ernest Gaewu.

The determination to reconstitute the sheet overseeing the injunction suit against the removal of suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo faced beardown absorption from erstwhile Attorney General, Godfred Dame, who is besides the ineligible typical for Vincent Ekow Asafuah, the petitioner seeking to halt the removal process.

Dame objected to the panel’s reconstitution, according to GhanaWeb's ineligible affairs correspondent, George Ayisi, arguing that Acting Chief Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie — present presiding implicit the lawsuit — is straight affected by the result and truthful should not pb the proceedings.

However, Deputy Attorney General, Justice Srem Sai, argued that determination is simply a misconception of idiosyncratic payment to the Acting CJ, but that is not so.

However, aft a little deliberation, the tribunal unanimously overruled Dame’s objection, affirming that the caller panel, chaired by Justice Baffoe-Bonnie, volition proceed with the hearing.

The sheet was reconstituted owed to changes successful the creation of the bench, with immoderate justices present serving connected the Chief Justice Removal Committee and others being replaced.

The archetypal panel, which was presided implicit by Prof Henrietta Mensah Bonsu, included Samuel Asiedu (now connected the removal committee), Ernest Gaewu (who retains his spot connected the caller panel), Yaw Asare Darko, and Richard Adjei Frimpong — some of whom person been replaced.

MAG/AE