Ghana: Former CJ Challenges Her Removal As Justice of Supreme Court

THE legal tussle over the removal of the former Chief Justice, Justice Araba Sackey Torkonoo, from office by President John Dramani Mahama is far from over as she is challenging her removal as a Justice of the Supreme Court.

Her application, which is in the nature of a judicial review and filed at the High Court in Accra, contends that her removal as a Justice of the Supreme Court was unlawful as the recommendation for her removal was in respect of her office as the Chief Justice, which followed a…