The Office of the Attorney General has filed an affidavit in response to the Suspended Chief Justice Torkornoo’s claims.
Suspended Chief Justice Torkonoo filed an injunction application to the Supreme Court to interpret relevant portions of the constitution to mean she can waive her right to privacy under the proceedings.
In her application for the injunction of the proceedings and members of the committee, she alleged that the proceedings were a mockery of Justice and a ruse to unjustifiably remove her.
The Office of the Attorney General however opposed the motion filed by Justice Gertrude Torkonoo which seeks to halt the ongoing proceedings for her removal.
The AG’s affidavit rejected claims made by the suspended Chief Justice that she was not informed of the reasons behind the prima facie determination.
According to the affidavit by the AG’s office, relevant documents have been made available to the appropriate parties.
The Attorney General’s office further denied allegations of leaking documents related to the petition seeking her removal.
Meanwhile, the Suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo in a supplementary affidavit at the Supreme Court quizzed how she can defend herself when she does not even know what she is defending against.
According to a supplementary affidavit filed with the Supreme Court as part of her legal challenge Chief Justice Torkornoo alleges violations of her fundamental rights in the ongoing impeachment proceedings against her.
She revealed that what she is going through at the hands of the Committee’s investigating petitions for her removal is not even meted out to persons accused of treason.
The suspended CJ Torkornoo asserted that she has not been informed of the legal basis on which a prima facie case was determined, nor of the specific allegations she is required to answer.
“How can I defend myself when I don’t even know what I’m defending against?” she asked.
In her supplementary affidavit filed in the Supreme Court on Monday, May 26, 2025, the Chief Justice outlined stated, “Other developments, like the denial of access into the hearing room for my husband and children, searches on my body, denial of access to telephones and laptops for myself and my lawyers (even though counsel for petitioners have access to their phones and laptops), and the conduct of the hearing itself in a high-security zone at the premises of the Castle, Osu, show a deliberate effort to subject me to mental torture and degrading treatment in violation of my fundamental rights”.
According to CJ Torkornoo, “They want to break me. What I am going through is not even meted out to persons accused of treason”
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