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General News of Tuesday, 12 August 2003

Source: GHANA PALAVER

Ex-Chief Justice Flown Out For Medical Treatement

.. TO STOP HIM FOR EXPOSING THE NPP GOVERNMENT AND CREATING CONFUSION

Former Chief Justice Wiredu who had a massive stroke and has been in a coma since, suddenly came out of the coma and for a brief moment regained his lucidity.

He one day got dressed up and asked his official driver to take him to the office only to be reminded that he had resigned as CJ and that a new CJ had been appointed and sworn into office.

CJ Wiredu who could not believe the story vehemently denied this and branded new CJ Acquah as a traitor.

A professor in the Ghana Medical School who is alleged to be closely related to him was called to convince him but he was adamant.

Fortunately, for the government, CJ Wiredu’s moment of lucidity did not last long when he relapsed into a coma again and has been flown out of the country to Cromwell Hospital in London for treatment.

It is believed that his medical condition is “beyond pardon” but to move him out of the geographical environs of Ghana so that his “hallucination’s of still being the CJ will not create an embarrasment to the Government.

Mail From a Medical expet

The former chief justice is not hallucinating per say. Depending on the part of brain tissue affected and amount of actual tissue damage, the guy could be forgetful, confused, have extreme mood swings, laughing in a moment and then switch to crying the next, recall vividly past events (to him it might still be present), such as his former position as attorney general or JJ is still the president. Again depending on the extend of ischemic brain cells, he may not be able to recover from that for the rest of his life, no matter where they send him ever they send him.