Kwaku Ansa-Asare, the former Director of the Ghana School of Law, has fired shots at the suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo for addressing the nation publicly.
According to Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Justice Torkornoo’s public appeal was inappropriate and suggested it was aimed at garnering sympathy.
He asserted that Justice Torkornoo was telling the whole nation that she is supervising a broken justice delivery system.
The former Director of the Ghana School of Law emphasised that Torkornoo has been the Chief Justice for three years now and didn’t she know that she was supervising a broken system that ought to be fixed.
Speaking on Eyewitness News on June 25, Ansa-Asare stated, “Ghanaians wanted to support her to go all in, and then at the end of the process, everyone will see whether the process was transparent. She has done more than 50% and now she is saying that the process was skewed, but she cannot resign — I realised that I have got to a corner, a place of no return, so public here I come for you to hear my side.
See what the president is doing to me, and if I appear before the committee, you will see what they are doing — It is none of our business to bring the public into this controversy.”
He added firmly, “The whole thing is such that the public has no say in this.”
“What she is actually telling the whole nation is that she is supervising a broken justice delivery system, and for the first time, she is a victim of such a system. Now if she is a victim of the broken justice system in this country, ‘na who cause am’?” he questioned.
He continued, “She has been Chief Justice for three years now. Didn’t she know that she was supervising a broken system that ought to be fixed?
If now she is saying she is a victim of a system that is supposed to deliver justice to aggrieved persons, and now she is an aggrieved person, and has been given a raw deal, her message to Ghanaians should rather be that the justice system is broken and needs fixing.”
