Alfred Kwabena Asiedu, a former Circuit Court judge based at Jasikan in the Oti region has described a petition that constituted his dismissal from the Judicial Service as a figment of the illusioned imagination of the petitioner.
Mr. Kwabena Asiedu was expelled for a conduct considered inappropriate pertaining to a divorce case he presided over.
The Chief Justice, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, in a letter dated November 13, 2023, dismissed the Jasikan Circuit Court judge from the Judicial Service following the findings of a committee tasked to investigate the matter and a resolution arrived by the Judicial Counsel at its 279th meeting.
Reacting to the petition in a letter to the Judicial Service, Mr. Kwabena Asiedu explicitly stated that “every material allegation made in the petition is false and clearly made out the figment of the illusioned imagination of the petitioner.”
He noted that a staff of the Dambai District Court aided the petitioner to peddle those falsehoods against him according to his checks, adding that he never demanded any ransom from the petitioner.
“My checks indicate that the Petitioner was aided by a staff of the Dambai District Court to make this petition and the staff of the Complaint Unit unfortunately played along with them. I have come to believe the result of my checks from how the covering letter on the Petition is couched and the Petition despatched to me.”
Background
One Singari Diana Sadia petitioned the Chief Justice on January 16, accused the judge of abuse of power, sexual exploitation, malicious prosecution, and impropriety.
The petition was then transferred to the disciplinary committee of the Judiciary Service, which investigated and recommended that the misbehaviour of the judge merited dismissal.
A letter from the Chief Justice, therefore, directed the judge to hand over all official properties in his possession, including his official vehicle, dockets, and record books, to the Judicial Secretary.
Below is the full petition filed against the judge
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