Suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo, has filed another suit at the High Court demanding that Shining Stars, an organisation behind one of the petitions seeking her potential removal from office, does not exist in law.
According to the suspended Chief Justice, the said organisation is a non-existent entity and can therefore not present a petition to seek her removal from office.
The Chief Justice, following three separate petitions for her removal, was suspended by President John Dramani Mahama after a prima facie case had been established in consultation with the Council of State based on Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution.
Madam Torkornoo has since filed applications to halt the processes and also prevent some members on the Committee probing her petitions to be expunged, but have all proved futile.
Prior to the latest suit, she filed another at the ECOWAS court demanding a US$10 million compensation from the state for what she describes as damaging of her reputation.
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The four reliefs being sought by the suspended Chief Justice in her latest suit as the High Court are as follows:
- A declaration that The Shinning Stars of Ghana does not exist in law or fact;
- A declaration that the Petition made to the President and dated 14th February 2025 allegedly authored by a group called The Shinning Stars of Ghana is void on account of the fact that The Shinning Stars of Ghana does not exist in law or fact;
- A declaration that the purported prima facie finding/determination in respect of the Petition by The Shinning Stars of Ghana made by the President in consultation with the Council of State and indicated in the communication by the Secretary to the President dated April 22, 2025 is null, void and of no effect;
- An order to bring up into this Court for the purpose of quashing accordingly quashing, she purported prima facie determination/finding made by the President in consultation with the Council of State and indicated in the communication by the Secretary to the President dated April 22, 2025.
Suspended Chief Justice Torkornoo demands $10m from Ghana gov’t as compensation
