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The Member of Parliament for Weija-Gbawe, Jerry Ahmed Shaib, led immoderate protestors successful chants and songs during the “Save the Judiciary Demo” held connected Monday, May 5, 2025.
The demonstration, organised by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and a conjugation of governmental parties, including the Liberal Party of Ghana (LPG), National Democratic Party (NDP), and the People’s National Party (PNP), was successful effect to the caller suspension of the Chief Justice.
The protesters expressed concerns implicit what they described arsenic governmental interference successful the judiciary, cautioning that the determination threatened the independency of 1 of Ghana’s cardinal antiauthoritarian institutions.
The suspension followed the constitution of a prima facie lawsuit successful 3 abstracted petitions calling for the Chief Justice’s removal.
In the interim, Justice Paul Baffoe-Bonnie has stepped successful arsenic Acting Chief Justice, arsenic stipulated nether Article 144(6) of the 1992 Constitution.
The nonfiction mandates that the astir elder Justice of the Supreme Court shall enactment successful specified a capableness whenever the substantive Chief Justice is incapable to execute their duties.
Meanwhile the conjugation of parties, led by the NPP has submitted a petition to Parliament, urging the House to intervene and transportation the president to reverse the suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, describing the enactment arsenic a menace to judicial independence.
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