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Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has called connected the Judicial Service to embark connected a nationwide sit-down onslaught successful solidarity with suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo.
Speaking during the #SaveTheJudiciaryDemo connected Monday, 5th May, Mr Afenyo-Markin described the Chief Justice’s suspension and the ongoing efforts to region her from bureau arsenic politically motivated and a nonstop onslaught connected the judiciary.
Presenting a petition to the Acting Secretary of the Judicial Service, Dr Cyracus Badinye Bapuuroh, the Minority Leader appealed to judges, members of the judiciary, and the Judicial Service Staff Association of Ghana (JUSAG) to instrumentality a stand.
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In his address, Mr Afenyo-Markin urged:
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Let your conscience prick you truthful that you would besides beryllium the adjacent to protestation and state a sit-down strike. Because it has happened before. When Georgina Wood came nether attack, JUSAG roseate to her defence. The clip has travel again for you—the judiciary—to rise.
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He added:
Don’t beryllium comfy due to the fact that it is Torkornoo. Don’t beryllium comfy due to the fact that you person your ain grievances, oregon due to the fact that you person a enactment interest, oregon due to the fact that the onslaught is benefiting you.
Mr Afenyo-Markin besides warned against retaliatory authorities by the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), cautioning that specified behaviour poses a serious menace to Ghana’s antiauthoritarian future.
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If this vicious rhythm of ‘you did it to me, I’ll bash it to you’ continues, determination volition beryllium nary further anticipation for our democracy. It means that successful 2028, you—who whitethorn beryllium the acting Judicial Secretary—will present beryllium viewed done a partisan lens. Because travel what may, successful 2028, determination volition beryllium a alteration successful government.
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Thousands of supporters person joined the protest organised by the New Patriotic Party (NPP), successful collaboration with 4 different governmental parties: the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), the National Democratic Party (NDP), the People’s National Party (PNP), and the Ghana Union Movement (GUM).
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