The Member of Parliament for Old Tafo, Ekow Vincent Assafuah, has criticised the composition of the committee set up to probe the petitions seeking the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo, describing the panel as politically-tinted.

He suggested that the members of the committee are clearly NDC sympathisers seeking revenge against the Chief Justice because she was appointed by the former president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.

In a statement he shared on April 22, 2025, the legislator stated that the suspension of the Chief Justice has revealed the intention of the president.

He argued that three members of the committee are persons whose political affiliations are known and, therefore, unfit to provide an objective assessment of the petitions.

He mentioned Daniel Yaw Domelevo, Justice Gabriel Pwamang and Professor James Sefah Dzisah as being partisan and hence questioned their objectivity in the treatment of the investigation into the petitions seeking the removal of the Chief Justice.

“Let’s not feign ignorance. This is a calculated orchestration. Out of the five-member committee appointed to investigate the Chief Justice, three carry visible partisan footprints,” the statement partly read.

In his estimation, the decision to suspend the Chief Justice was informed by the belief that she belongs to another political leaning; a situation he described as worrying.

“If one government can suspend a Chief Justice and install a politically sympathetic panel to oversee her fate, what will stop future governments from doing worse? What precedent are we setting for our children?” he asked.

He added that the impending impeachment process smacks of vengeance by the president, rather than an act of accountability.

“We welcome accountability. But when accountability becomes selective, targeted, and politically motivated, it ceases to be justice. It becomes revenge. Today, it is the Chief Justice. Tomorrow, it could be an Electoral Commissioner, a journalist, or a civil servant who refuses to bow to partisan pressure. What we are witnessing is not a pursuit of truth — it is an attempt to weaken the judiciary and embolden executive overreach,” he said.

Read his full statement below:



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