{"id":98035,"date":"2025-04-23T17:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/president-has-no-discretion-in-justice-torkornoos-review-petition-probe-mr-kpebu"},"modified":"2025-04-23T17:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T17:47:51","slug":"president-has-no-discretion-in-justice-torkornoos-review-petition-probe-mr-kpebu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/president-has-no-discretion-in-justice-torkornoos-review-petition-probe-mr-kpebu","title":{"rendered":"President has no Discretion in Justice Torkornoo\u2019S Review Petition Probe \u2014 Mr Kpebu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Mr Martin Kpebu, a Private Legal Practitioner, Tuesday said the President cannot exercise any discretion in the Chief Justic\u2019s review petition probe, if the Committee says she is not liable or vice versa.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The recommendations of the Committee was what the President would go by and act upon, he said.<\/p>\n<p>President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday, acting in accordance with Article 146(6) of the Constitution and in consultation with the Council of State, determined that a prima facie case has been established in respect of three petitions against the Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo.<\/p>\n<p>The President has consequently established a committee in compliance with Article 146(6) of the Constitution and in consultation with the Council of State to look into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kpebu, in an interview with the media, said the suspension of the Chief Justice was not a light matter, it would involve a lot of considerations, engagements, and consultations and those decisions were not to be taken lightly.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Medina Srem-Sai, the Deputy Attorney-General and Deputy Minister of Justice, said in the absence of the Chief Justice, the senior most Justice of the Supreme Court would act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor now, the senior-most justice would be Justice Paul Kwadwo Baffoe-Bonnie,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Srem-Sai explained that there were so many reasons why a chief justice may be suspended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese include the time to prepare defence and explanation on the petitions, which have allegations that the public might not be aware of,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, the question is, if you have three petitions, you will need a lot of time to prepare your defence and your explanation, so playing the role of the head of the judiciary, administratively as a judiciary, is already a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that would be a very hectic role and put the Chief Justice in a position where she continued to perform her functions, and at the same time be defending herself in the face of three issues concurrently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis might be probably one of the reasons why the President may want to suspend the Chief Justice so that she could have sufficient time to prepare and defend herself against the allegations,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the President has set up a petition review committee to inquire into the suspension, chaired by Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang, Justice of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>The members are Justice Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, Justice of the Supreme Court, Daniel Yaw Domelevo (Former Auditor-General), Major Flora Bazwaanura Dalugo (Ghana Armed Forces), and Professor James Sefah Dzisah (Associate Professor, University of Ghana).<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Ghana<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. Mr Martin Kpebu, a Private Legal Practitioner, Tuesday said the President cannot exercise any discretion in the Chief Justic\u2019s review petition probe, if the Committee says she is not liable or vice versa. The recommendations of the Committee was what the President would go by and act upon, he said. President John [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":98034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[429],"class_list":["post-98035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President has no Discretion in Justice Torkornoo\u2019S Review Petition Probe \u2014 Mr Kpebu - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/uncategorized\/president-has-no-discretion-in-justice-torkornoos-review-petition-probe-mr-kpebu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President has no Discretion in Justice Torkornoo\u2019S Review Petition Probe \u2014 Mr Kpebu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. 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