Current constitutional processes for removing Chief Justice unfair - Justice Sophia Akuffo

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  • Fordior 7 months ago

    Where do u stand
    Menopause

  • PRINCE KWASI ADADE (OFIE P33) 7 months ago

    AS THEY ARE FOOLING, LET US QUESTION THEM ON THE 24HR ECONOMY, GALAMSEY, EXCHANGE RATE, DUMSOR, TRANSPORT FARES AND PRICE OF KENKEY. JUST TO MENTION FEW!!
    HWE! MAHAMA AND NDC! YENYE NKWASEAFO WO GHANA HA OH!

  • Vornyovie Victory 7 months ago

    The major challenge with the GH constitution obviously is the excessive executive powers given to the president. All that was done at the time with JJ on mind. Obviously the president alone is removing the CJ with the docile ...
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  • Joko 7 months ago

    Akufo enjoyed the same privileges as JJ while the entire NPP slept on,now it's Mahama's turn all the idiots are awake.

  • Bee 7 months ago

    Mony3 nkwaseafuor aa, anka mob3dwene Oman sika noa nkwaseafuorno ewia noho.$58million cathedral foundation eni nea ekakaho.Where do you expect money to be taken from when, your people have incurred huge debts in every sector ...
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  • We are NPP 7 months ago

    Madam Akuffo, unfortunately your opinion doesnt matter for now. Allow President Mahama to exercise his Presidential powers. We were all in Ghana here when Akufo Addo removed Charlott Osei as the EC

  • Msc K 7 months ago

    During the removal of Charlotte Osei under Akuffor Addo, you never said anything about constitutional review and even suggesting that president should give her the opportunity to appeal if the committee is done with their wor ...
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  • Legacy 7 months ago

    Was Charlotte Osei a chief justice?

  • Bee 7 months ago

    Apparently you don't know the same constitution was used.Is the CJ bigger than Ghana and the constitution? Nyansa

  • ASEMPA 7 months ago

    Undecided, she herself is confused and doesn't even know where she stands.

  • Odjame 7 months ago

    She made a lot of sense on the matter . Not everything must be political . Learn sense

  • Bee 7 months ago

    What sense?because she is speaking in favor of your bias CJ? Was the 1992 constitution written in Jan, 2025?why didn't she talk of review all this years but now.See how hypocritical you people are.When talking use wisdom and ...
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  • JOKELLO 7 months ago

    But Madam, that is what is contained in the current constitution, and nobody has broken any law. Unless you want to tell me that we should throw the constitution away. By the way, it was the same constitution that your stupid ...
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  • Kwame marfo 7 months ago

    Mr. President our cherish NHIA will be in serious trouble if care is not taken. The previous administration did so many wrongs and the current administration is gradually worsening the situation. An office of 43 staff no has ...
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  • Kojois 7 months ago

    Since when did you realised this greedy woman who has sold her birth right.

  • Asakramitoga 7 months ago

    Justice Sophia Akuffo please with all due respect stay out of this. You were gagged under the previous goverment but please let the Constitution speak for itself

  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 7 months ago

    NONSENSE. WHY DID YOU NOT BRING THIS SUGGESTION BUT WATCHED CHARLOTTE OSEI SACKED?. WHO ADDED THIS WOMAN TO THE COUNCIL OF STATE?. WAS SHE NOT IN CHARGE WHEN INNOCENT 8 VOTERS WERE MURDERED?. SHE SAW TO MOST OF THE WRONGDOING ...
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  • Kojo 7 months ago

    I don't understand the reference to Charlotte Osei. Was she a member of the judiciary at the time and for that matter a chief justice? When her case was brought didn't her assistant commissioners and herself openly fighting o ...
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  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 7 months ago

    Why is the judiciary so special? Both the judiciary and EC removal are guided by article 146.

  • Kwaku 7 months ago

    So the is special people which are to be treated differently from other citizens? Explain to me the equality before the law? Was Charlotte Osei given to the opportunity to appeal?

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    I agree with you. I don't understand when people belittle the office of the EC and say do not compare to the CJ's office. You mean an institution that can subvert the will of the people through rigging and potentially throwin ...
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  • dico2020g 7 months ago

    Madam whiles calling for more stringent measures in preventing the removal of the chief justice it is equally important to call for more stringent measure to control the behaviour of the chief justice such that it serves the ...
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  • Kwam 7 months ago

    So make a case for future considerations. You have that opportunity as a member of council of State. If you think your taught or advice is not been listened to, resign my mother. We respect you for your stands on important is ...
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  • Ruben 7 months ago

    All these are nonsense talk. Who is not political in ghana?

  • Friend of friends 7 months ago

    Reading this article very well will tell you that the woman is saying the new CJ which will be appointed by prez. Mahama should be well protected by the constitution without any future removal by any other government

  • Leo 7 months ago

    Good reader

  • Nii Addo 7 months ago

    It's good to have these oldies around. But one may ask where they were when the constitution was being destroyed by the erstwhile govt of Nana Addo. Are govt. Officials untouchable?
    Gertrude's behaviour called for her remov ...
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  • Nii 7 months ago

    This lady must be the first female president. Madam you have my vote

  • Rex 7 months ago

    shameless old age rascals in exception of Sophia…Oklujeto and Oquaye two useless old men who have failed the generations of this beautiful nation…You ought to have done this review when you were in power for 8 yrs..You wi ...
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  • Cheap talk 7 months ago

    Is the Chief Justice a better human being than the rest of Ghanaians.....the law does not allow for appeal, so be it....the law is the law once espouse by Justice Torkonoo. Yes it can be reviewed later but now that is the law ...
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  • Star from the North 7 months ago

    It is stupid to suggest that there must be a legislation to protect the Chief Justice and for that matter other institutional heads from being removed. That’s a fallacy and ridiculous statement. Elsewhere, presidents are im ...
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  • Maria 7 months ago

    Sophia Akuffo,Mike Ouaye,Oklujeto.you people are the same better park elsewhere. Noises!!

  • Kwame 7 months ago

    Oooh na so ?

    What about that of the ELECTORAL COMMISSIONER ?

  • Yaw 7 months ago

    Why call Sam Oku.... as an eminent person? He is hollow.

  • Teddy more 7 months ago

    All these are not necessarily. Removal of chief justice is president decision. Normally is the king of Ghana decision but we don't have king. So is the president should act.
    Please Google who appoint and also Removal of ...
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  • Philosophy 7 months ago

    The only cure to this so called unfairness is that , the CJ together with the justices of the Supreme Court must either be elected by the people or a body that represents the people. This will make the Supreme Court responsi ...
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  • KofSam 7 months ago

    Ghana is applying what is presently in our constitution to remove the chief justice. Not until the new constitution is passed or amendments to the present constitution is complete , the chief justice must be fired . Ghanaians ...
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  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 7 months ago

    So when Sophia Akuffo was applying the same article 146 to remove madam Charlotte. Osei she did not recognize that it is unfair?
    Whatever, Osonomaame is gone and will never return.

  • Junior 7 months ago

    Yes

  • Fairman 7 months ago

    No one is going ta listen ta ya madam Sophie! What you should be recommending to be made stringent is the law that made it possible for you to jail the three young men of Muntie 3 fame. These young men could have been your g ...
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  • Achakanapaya 7 months ago

    But for now, the same yard stick this woman used against Charlotte Osie will be used now against Tokonoo.
    Torkornu will go at all costs.
    Shameless dishonest Nation wreckers.

  • Yaa 7 months ago

    When you set a committee to investigate Charlotte Osei
    Why didn’t you advise them to give her opportunity for appeal? Is madam Osei not a woman like the CJ.. since you were directly involved in Osei’s case it will be be ...
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  • Koti 7 months ago

    This woman knows the truth but because of her current position in this government she's afraid to voice out. Ghana for you!

  • Zargon 7 months ago

    The law is the law

  • Principled statewoman 7 months ago

    This woman is very principled

  • AK 7 months ago

    Madame with all due respect you are more dangerous than the NDC people trying to remove the CJ. Who knows you are in the Council of State in such a time as this to have defended the course of the judiciary and democracy but y ...
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  • Lord peppers 7 months ago

    We will do all the buga buga and then amend the constitution to make it a better one. For now, we will ensure the bad weeds are uprooted by all means

  • Erik 7 months ago

    So madam as far as the present constitution in its form is concerned the president has not breached any law? abi. So please advise the blockheads like Afenyo Markin and his kind to shut their beaks and the constitution lead u ...
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  • Avoks 7 months ago

    Whether fair or unfair, the process must continue, worse things happened under Addo's era and no one saw anything wrong with that."Animal Farm", some are more equal than others.

  • Carlos 7 months ago

    Why didn't you advocate for this during Nana Addo regime.

  • Should Judiciary should also have turner like presidents? 7 months ago

    The Chief Justice is Number 4 in Ghana's power, and the Judiciary is the third wing of government. The 1st three in power have turned and can be voted out when they are not performing, just like executives and legislators. It ...
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  • Kwabena Manu 7 months ago

    Madam Sophia Akuffo,you couldn't suggest to Nana Akuffo-Addo that the mode or means by which the Chief Justice is removed was not right. You were the Chief Justice who received Charlotte Osei's petition and prima facie was ma ...
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  • Osaberima mensah 7 months ago

    Untie Sophia, please and please again, you have earned soo much respect from a lot of Ghanaians. Kindly allow the law to work as it did work during Charlotte Osei's time because we dont want to talk against you. What is good ...
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  • Maa Abena 7 months ago

    Immature Greedy Comments!

    Ghanaians would like to know whether the constitutional processes that led to your appointment as a Council of State member was also unfair. Mere STUPIDITY.

  • Coach 7 months ago

    Thanks former CJ - You have certainly not antagonized JM,'s processes.The call for Constitutional reviews has been on many lips for sometime and I hope that the CRC is actively following events.

  • BBB 7 months ago

    This is nonsense, why should be who decides the fate of others with the law now be fighting to hold on to their position when these same law is been applied to them.

  • Kofi 7 months ago

    When you were there you didn't see the flaws in the constitution, now that, it's being use/apply against your own, you are seeing it clearly, is it hypocrisy or what?

  • The President and speaker has turner and can be removed but CJ cannot be removed? 7 months ago

    If Nos 1, 2, and 3 in power have a tuner and can be removed, why can't No. 4 (Judiciary) have no tuner and cannot be removed? A bad judge is worse than a bad president. They must have a tuner of office or be removed when misb ...
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  • Buckon 7 months ago

    Infact we Ghanaian we have problem.why, madam said we should make the constitution more stringent for the removal of CJ's.Madam please do you want to tell us that in one day another CJ is behaving wrongly it will be difficult ...
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  • Kwame 7 months ago

    We a worker is found for misconduct, he cannot go for an appeal.

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  • Jimmy Edwards 7 months ago

    Madam you have made this suggestion because a Constitutional Review Committee has been set up But why have you restricted yourself to only the removal of a Chiief Justice ARE you saying is only the CJ whose ...
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  • Odjame 7 months ago

    Sophia , you are very objective on national issues and things that affect the Ghanaian . Keep it up and God bless you with good health and long life . But for the current constitutional provision . The Chief Justice is a gon ...
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  • Bee 7 months ago

    It's very clear now that the elephants think of their party first and not Ghana.You should have received a head cut and not hair cut from Akuffo Addo.Or is your conscience judging you.On what basis did you remove Charlotte Os ...
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  • Lance 7 months ago

    You should have said this when you were chief justice. You were there in power when the EC was removed. So tell us what is unfair about it and when you realized that unfairness

  • Nii 7 months ago

    THE NEXT PRESIDENT

  • Kwame 7 months ago

    I am not sure that the Supreme Court will reverse the ruling on a worker who has been summarily dismissed by the employer for a misconduct.
    Is the Chief Justice a superior human being than other workers.
    Every worker is a ...
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  • Kwame 7 months ago

    When a worker is found guilty of misconduct, that worker must just let sleeping dogs to lie.
    He cannot appeal.