CJ Removal: 'We caution against actions that could compromise judicial independence' – Catholic Bishops

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  • Jb 4 months ago

    What law has our president broken? What is the purpose of this statement? Whoever is behind the statement is not a law abiding citizen.

  • EFO KOKU 4 months ago

    PETITION
    These Ndc fools should know that writing of petitions to remove a chief Justice is not the bonafide doing of only Ndc supporters. Therefore the idea of whether the president has broken any law is neither here nor th ...
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  • Philipo 4 months ago

    And who is begging you not to do that. Kwasea. Do your worse. Where were you when phantom signatures were used to remove Charlotte Osei. Swine like you

  • Kk 4 months ago

    So you are also using phantom signatures abi!!! Ndc and their goddess Charlotte Osei. Everything Charlotte Osei and they conveniently and stupidly forget what transpired iro Charlotte Osei. It is so painful a party like the n ...
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  • AGBESI KWASI 4 months ago

    The Catholic Bishops Conference was reticent when Nana Addo, Dame and the lady CJ were abusing the constitution, encouraging witnesses to lie in order to help imprison opponents. The CJ was clearly rude to JM, making faces wh ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    Hmm!

  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    Hmm, Justice in Ghana?

  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    Hmm! Will there ever be any true justice in Ghana until the practice of political appointment is abolished?

  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    Hmm! Does anyone think that the judiciary in Ghana can be genuine with the practice of political appointments rather than electing all top government officials by votes? If any such person exists, that person may be just a fo ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    Anytime, the NDC or NPP takes power from each other, the IGP, CJ, EC, Ministers and almost all top appointees will be removed before the 4 year term of that government or regime comes to an end due to mistrust, fear of betray ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    The real answer is there but people keep beating about the bush which proves to me that most of Ghana are either; hypocrites or unintelligent or pretending or deceptive or naïve or ignorant or foolish by avoiding the fact th ...
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  • Divine Ninja of America 4 months ago

    By conspiracies of political appointments with a plot to remove the Chief justice, the NDC plotted their destructive agenda by falsely using bad people to file wrongful petitions against the CJ with falsified allegations of w ...
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  • Batuta 4 months ago

    Charlotte Osei was not a Chief Justice.

  • Jaman 4 months ago

    The Law is the Law.

  • Oklemekuku 4 months ago

    The law is the law,;ask Gertrude Torkornoo

  • Capricorn 4 months ago

    They'll come out to deny. Mark it on the wall

  • Joemens 4 months ago

    Is Charlotte Osei a chief justice? What a moron!!!!!

  • Oklemekuku 4 months ago

    Cry me a river. She's gone and not coming back, no matter what.

  • Agyekum 4 months ago

    Efo koku you are senseless, stupid fool

  • Yaw anokye 4 months ago

    And who told you NPPIGS party is called Ming to power? The party is broken beyond repairs if NPPIGS party is a responsible party people like abronye and co will not vie for NPPIGS party presidential candidature
    NPPIGS PARTY ...
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  • Infact I'm also writing a petition against the current illegitimate CJ 4 months ago

    The president has no option but to initiate proceedings against the tokbelle CJ if anyone writes a petition against him now. Perhaps the NPP and NDC haven't realised this loophole

  • FINALLY, YOU CAN TALK AGAIN 4 months ago

    8 years of silence, finally, you can talk again. Under NPP who born dog…you remain mute!

  • M.T 4 months ago

    Why don't you tell us what law the CJ has broken that necessitate her suspension? And tell me who is that neutral Justice at the SC that will take over from her. JM will definitely put an NDC Justice ( or atleast be perceived ...
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  • Sunday 4 months ago

    Please time will come you will not see both npp and NDC in the political realms of Ghana okay don't think that Ghana is for NDC and npp okay. The right must be done.

  • Nana 4 months ago

    So far as a prima facie has been established, she can be suspended. The rest is what the committee is handling

  • Batuta 4 months ago

    You learnt nothing in school.

  • jesus 4 months ago

    Bunch of individuals who think the dictates of their personal emotions should supersede the dictates of our constitution. The same way the dictates of their desire to 'chop small boys' superseded the dictates of SOCIETY MORAL ...
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  • Yaw Amankwaah 4 months ago

    ..... and they call themselves Catholic Bishops, Hypocrites !
    Where were you for the past 9 years. They were quiet when their party was in power. Leave the judiciary alone to do their work. Did you see President Mahama inter ...
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  • Rew 4 months ago

    They are hypocrites indeed. I just don't like their biased posture. Nation wreckers.

  • Asídu Keta 4 months ago

    Yaa you don't understand. Ifa russia citizen gives birth in Ghana the baby will get a Ghana birth certificate. That doesn't make the child a Ghanaian. If you give birth in the UK, the baby will get a UK birth certificate but ...
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  • Korbla 4 months ago

    Nobody said a birth certificate makes someone a citizen. We are saying the birth certificate, based on some information in there can be used to identify someone as a citizen. Eg If it is stated on the birth certificate that ...
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  • Nii Sage 4 months ago

    The Catholic bishops should tell the suspended CJ that the constitution mandates the process to be held in camera - she already violated by coming public to whip up public sympathy. It's a wonder they remained quiet during th ...
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    Jesus Christ loves you and wants to save you from sin and its consequences. He died on the cross for your sins, was buried, and rose again on the third day. Believe in Him, accept His gift of forgiveness, and receive eternal ...
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  • Theory vrs Practice 4 months ago

    Issue a similar united statement on galamsey!

  • We are NPP 4 months ago

    This woman is only thinking about usd$$$$$$ ..........
    Bishops don't try to deprive this woman from achieving her goals of obtaining free cash usd$$$$$ ----------

  • Klaase Klose Marfhen 4 months ago

    Hiding in the name of CATHOLIC COBFERENCE to do NPP Politics. You Adu Gyamfi, you didn't see the Judicial abuse under this NPP Woman Organizer.

  • Nana 4 months ago

    Today, Catholic Bishops have a voice in just 7 months of this administration. Now, freedom of speech is back.

  • Kk 4 months ago

    You must be joking. Which free speech is back. Nana Addo allowed you animals to ho scot free when you made all manner of foolish statements during his tenure. Capt Smart, Mugabe, Kevin Taylor, Sam George, Okudzrto Ablakwa, Le ...
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  • NPP/ NDC are the SAME 4 months ago

    Shut up there

  • Ananse 4 months ago

    Please was it President Mahama that wrote the constitution?
    Why all these?
    So pastors were in this country when former presidents Nana Addo was removing people from office left and right and center and they didn’t see any ...
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  • Joy 4 months ago

    If madam tokonoo is found guilty she must be move from her office lawfully. But if not guilty she should fight for her right

  • Rory 4 months ago

    Stupid bishops. Where were you and what did you do when the CJ was dragging the judiciary in the mud?
    Shut up, you hypocrites!

  • babs 4 months ago

    Very apt comment. I was wondering how these bishops could come out to comment on critical national issues after becoming deaf and dumb under NPP. Very shameless lot.

  • Abena 4 months ago

    Eiii NDC go.on and insult bishops

  • Oldsoldier 4 months ago

    Is this to find their missing voice of you can tell any constitution breaches ,fair enough, until then you might be better being silent.

  • Yawa 4 months ago

    With all due respect, Rev. Gyamfi if you are now waking up from a slumber, then go back to sleep. I'm not sure you live in Ghana anymore, otherwise please you can fly to Rome and share his kingdom. This is Ghana and we can do ...
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  • Nana Kese, Newark, New Jersey 4 months ago

    Better late than never....national and international bodies as this should mount pressure on JM..hus quest to oust the CJ should be addressed in such manner...if left unchecked JM will take the laws of the country to his hand ...
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  • Yvonne 4 months ago

    Stupid Bishop. When this evil woman ruled that Gyakye Quayson should appear in court everyday you hypocrites were happy. You were quiet. NPP Bishops. Shame on you

  • Nye bro 4 months ago

    And foolish Yvonne! Wo y3 aboa paa for insulting the bishop. Kwasea like you!!!

  • Kwaku 4 months ago

    Are the Bishops not human beings like you and me? What makes the Bishops so special than you and MP? If yiu think they are your God, go and worship them. As for me I see them.in the same way I see a cleaner or shoemaker. We ...
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  • Evans 4 months ago

    @Nana Kesse is it not under this same Constitution that Nana Addo was operating ; it was not useless then but because it is JM today you think it useless. Your sense of reasoning is as useless as the word useless.

  • Charles 4 months ago

    How can the removal of one person compromise the whole judiciary? if so, then her stay in office rather compromised the judiciary.

  • Kk 4 months ago

    Don't you see the judiciary is compromised. Are you in Ghana? How can sane human beings vacate the bench warrant against a fool like Kevin Taylor? You must be mad. The judiciary is tainted and destroyed.

  • Pontius Pilate 4 months ago

    Stupidity. See NPP hypocrites hiding under Catholic. They were happy with her bias judgements against one side of the political divide consistently all the time. Adu Lodge influence was never compromising the independence o ...
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  • Akyem sakawa Mafia 4 months ago

    The fools are now awake talking with their anus, shut up catholic Bifools

  • Thief of Staff - Akosua Frema 4 months ago

    Useless fools!!!

  • Donatus 4 months ago

    We find our voices when NDC is in power.

  • Kooo 4 months ago

    Another NPP footsoldiers n hypocrites.. Who is the suspended CJ that she can’t be removed. Is the Supreme Court her family property or what. In the name of independence of the institution doesn’t mean she can misbehave. U ...
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  • Corrupt Bishops 4 months ago

    They are a disgrace to the Vatican. Stupid rats

  • The Devil’s Advocate 4 months ago

    When the so called independent judiciary was blatantly and seriously compromised to the benefit of the previous corrupt government where were you? Keep your sanctimonious edicts for your flock please

  • Papa K 4 months ago

    By their deeds, they shall be known. Is it being portrayed that, the president doesn't know to follow the due process, or is it been exhibited that the due process is not been followed.
    If the conference has something to sa ...
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  • Piety 4 months ago

    My Lord Bishop, lets be sincere, were you happy the way justice were rendered in this country during the suspended CJ era? If you were pleased and think she was following the rules then you have no worry because Prez Mahama t ...
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  • Kk 4 months ago

    Thank you Catholic Bishops. Ypu are the only voice of conscience left in Ghana. The hypocrite JM has appointed party apparatchiks to the Supreme Court to do the bidding of his party and he knew that the presence of the CJ wou ...
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  • Piety 4 months ago

    I don't think this is coming from Catholic Bishops but an individual bishop because we Catholics don't fear the truth

  • Assay 4 months ago

    Where were these bishops when npp removed madam Charlotte Osei and Mr. Domelevo from office under bizzare condition.

    #THE CJ MUST GO.

  • Nana 4 months ago

    Oh, they have woken up. So which Constitutional provision has been breached?

  • Hmm 4 months ago

    Suddenly my Catholic Bishops can issue communique??
    Eiii boi3 for God and Ghana

  • Onipaba 4 months ago

    Cry Ghana our beloved country.Power has gone to the dogs indeed.Its so scary when the ignorant and uninformed have so much power and influence.

  • Lord Lugard 4 months ago

    Are the bishops aware that the law is the law

  • Nene Mensa 4 months ago

    No need of this from the Bishop conference. Don’t let Afenyo- Markin influence your conference. He is doing the same at Nigeria with West Africa parliament n the Court there. This is constitutional matter and they are all f ...
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  • Sir kk 4 months ago

    It is always good for citizens to register their concerns over sensitive national issues. I like the tone of the letter. It doesn't push the president to any particular direction it admonishes that fairness be upheld.
    One t ...
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  • Kwasi 4 months ago

    How old was is this man? Its obvious he wasn't alive over the past 8yrs he would have understood the words partiality and impartiality.
    Please let us be. The president is abiding by law but it doesn't seem nice because of h ...
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  • Batuta 4 months ago

    Those Pastors who campaigned against Dr Bawumia because he is Muslim should be ashamed by now if they have any little intelligence in their brains. Are they happy with the direction Mahama their so called Christian is taking ...
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  • AD 4 months ago

    I'm a Catholic but I don't really understand what these people are saying, has the president gone against the constitution in the processes outlined in the constitution with regards to the removal of the chief justice?? They ...
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  • Ochee-Do-Chee 4 months ago

    Who listens to a bunch of paedophiles that at the end of a confession for communion will ask you 'is that all?' As if you are there to boast!

  • Brigadier Sabari v.2 4 months ago

    You are too late. You have kept quiet and allowed this God forsaken idiot John Mahama to rape this country. The next coup will see worse atrocities agaisnt the judiciary particularly the unprincipled "in" Justices on the benc ...
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  • Kwesi 4 months ago

    Where were these politically biased NPP Catholic Bishops when Akuffo Addo was raping the country and breaking all kinds of laws of the country? They should SHUT UP. This is disgusting and disgraceful.

    MAHAMA IS NOT BREAKI ...
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  • Big joe 4 months ago

    she must go when she was wrongfully punishing innocent civilians was it not against the constitution?

  • Agyekum 4 months ago

    Where were these so called Bishops when others were being removed left, right, center during Akuffo Addo and NPP era.

  • Toko 4 months ago

    Bring it on.............

  • Nelson 4 months ago

    It's surprising that these people have suddenly found their voice. These hypocrites could not tell us one article or clause that is bleached, yet they are talking about due process. They put out this without any shame

  • Napo 4 months ago

    These bishops are agents Satan and npp affiliate, criminals in cassock

  • Yakubu Alhassan 4 months ago

    NATIONAL DISTRIBUTION OF COCAINE ( NDC )

  • Nana Adjei 4 months ago

    Hypocrites. You are the reasons why many will go to hell. Demons in white ropes

  • Hmmmm 4 months ago

    Reset Agenda on:
    How can judiciary be independent when 7 justices are promoted to Supreme Court. Discharging NDC members who have committed offences against the state and prosecuting opposition people. Discharging a person ...
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  • Owura 4 months ago

    Yate nso y3nfa.

  • Holy Sinner 4 months ago

    WHO ARE CATHOLIC BISHOPS? Nothing but PAEDOPHILES.Where were these so called Catholics when Nppigs were in power.?.Catholics have their own serious issues concerning paedophilia to solve yet they go around yabbing RUBBISH.4UC ...
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  • Yabi Yabi 4 months ago

    Did the church consult with God before putting out their statement? What can the church point to that triggered their caution? Why would a church with presumed divine guidance equate the rights of a suspended CJ with the inst ...
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  • Achakanapaya 4 months ago

    Hypocrisy at highest level. Thieves and Nation wreckers in carsort.

  • Egya Kofi 4 months ago

    You are not telling us that judicial independence demands zero accountability..

  • Kweku A 4 months ago

    Catholic Bishops, please the process to remove the CJ is right on course per the Constitution of Ghana. The challenge now is more from the suspended CJ her a actions clearly do not reflect a CJ who should know better..

  • Analyst 4 months ago

    May be President Mahama thought removing the CJ from office bade on "pito bar" allegation was as easy as picking a child from a kindergarten school .

  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 4 months ago

    PLEASE THE CATHOLIC BISHOPS WERE IN GHANA WHEN CHARLOTTE OSEI WAS REMOVED. DID THEY SAY ANYTHING ON HER BEHALF?..

  • Martin Kreisler 4 months ago

    After going to the ECOWAS court to litigate against her own country for USD 10 million PERSONAL COMPENSATION, it is no longer appropriate for the Suspended Chief Justice to occupy her 'former' position. It would be more appro ...
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  • Free capenter 4 months ago

    This clearly shows you suspect foul play at the Supreme Court decision on Kelvin Taylor. But you were
    not bold enough to criticise the decision. Suspension of the CJ has gone on for sometime now. Why this release today? Oh o ...
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  • NDC insults will flow like water 4 months ago

    By now the low IQ brigade will heap uncountable insults on the bishops without any restraint. They don't learn from history that he who insults innocent persons for fighting for what is right will incur curses.

  • Kwaky 4 months ago

    Better late than never but the harm has already been done Just imagine the compromised Ag CJ and the Kelvin Taylor decision yesterday of the SC.

  • Tt 4 months ago

    But Charlotte Osei and her deputies were fighting about vote transfers pop,

  • The Truth 4 months ago

    Hypocritical Catholic NPP affiliated group. We're you in Ghana here when Akufo Addo used the same procedure to sack Charlotte Osei dubiously under the instruction of Kennedy Agyapong? Perhaps you just descended from the space ...
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  • Opoku 4 months ago

    Where were the catholic bishops when she was doing things basabasa

  • Andropov 4 months ago

    Bishops, Osono mame is evil and she has to go

  • Eta 4 months ago

    Where were they when Shallot Osei got removed.

  • Yaw 4 months ago

    Another useless and divisive arm of religious body.

    Very selective and incongruous.

  • Opuni Kwaku 4 months ago

    The same bishops conference were silent about the National cathedral scandal even though Bishop Buckle was a member of the board that squandered the money

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  • Kooo 4 months ago

    You people shd RESPECT yourselves. Shame on you.

  • Kudjoe 4 months ago

    Can Bishop Matthew show us all the letters the conference wrote to Akufo Addo when the NPP government was running the country down?

  • Cherry-picking is unGodly behaviour 4 months ago

    Cherry-picking is the mark of deception, greed, selfish, ungratefulness, serpent, unGodliness.
    By their utterances we shall know them. A bunch of materialistic agents parading as men of God.

  • Sam 4 months ago

    Which law has been broken so far?

  • Korshie Amenyo 4 months ago

    ???

  • Purewater 4 months ago

    Oh what a hypocrisy. Where were you between 2017 and 2024 when so many things were going wrong. People including your own parishioners and parishes lost money in the wicked financial sector clean up exercise. Even the judicia ...
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  • Ghanaba 4 months ago

    Now you have a mouth? I am disappointed in these bishops. Have you taken notice of her conduct? She has disgraced herself as a legal lead in Ghana.

  • Francis mccarthy 4 months ago

    NO LAW HAS BEEN BROKEN. PLEASE,PLEASE, PLEASE LET THE GOVERNMENT OF ONLY 6 MONTHS HAVE THE PEACE OF MIND TO GOVERN.

  • Oklemekuku 4 months ago

    Everything about this case is being done within the confines of the constitution.

  • Rita 4 months ago

    Catholic Bishops, please tell us exactly what law has the president broken in this case? You people are so hypocritical...where were you when same provision and laws in the constitution were being melted on Charlotte osei , t ...
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  • Sycamore 4 months ago

    As for these hypocrites in cassock, the least said about them the better especially that national cathedral thief called
    Palmer Buckle

  • Aa 4 months ago

    IS TOO LATE MY BISHOPS IN COMING OUT TO TALK. THE DAMAGE HAS BEEN DONE TO GHANA IMAGE AND THE JUDICIARY ALREADY

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  • Akyeame Mafia 4 months ago

    Hypocrites ……!!!

  • Christopher Ang-Nieten Dassah 4 months ago

    If you had advised the CJ probably she wouldn't have gotten to this level. I thought you should have been a light to her not to telling about due process!!!!

  • Fd 4 months ago

    Ghanaweb propaganda. How can one person represent the bishops. I nearly insulted them until I read the story. Stop this!

  • Fd 4 months ago

    Ei! It’s actually them ooo

  • Demetrius 4 months ago

    These men of God are becoming irrelevant day in day out. They must rethink.

  • Kwame 4 months ago

    My ribs, I cannot laugh. Where were these people when the Supreme Court of Ghana sat and sentenced a person to prison term for an act that was not a crime at the time he was alleged to have committed it.
    That time when the ...
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  • English name 4 months ago

    Why do most Ghanaians have English first names? Check every news and the individuals involved. They all have English nam

  • Vanchasse 4 months ago

    I am a Catholic and I want to humbly ask my church leaders where they were when this CJ and the NPP sidelined SALS for a whole four years without a representative? or those are not citizens of Ghana? I watched a court proceed ...
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