Gertrude Torkornoo’s case was handled like a treason trial -Sophia Akuffo fumes

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  • Fort Coursmtin 3 months ago

    Then resign from council. You are biased for two reasons, toroko is a woman and a lawyer where you fit. Is a shame to be in that council

  • ghana 3 months ago

    GERTRUDE NEVER BEHAVE LIKE A JUSTICE OR SOMEONE WHO KNOW THE LAW

  • Anti Ghana NPP 3 months ago

    Making wild allegations simply create uncertainties. Why wouldn’t Akuffo tell us where the government or the judges got it wrong.

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  • Johnny,Oyarifa -Madina 3 months ago

    Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings did not challenge the Soldiers ,when she saw the keys of the car on her table, the Soldiers used in killing the 3 Judges. Today she's an accomplice, wife of a MURDERER. Sophia Akuffo is fuming to ...
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  • AGBESI KWASI 3 months ago

    Sophia Akuffo must stop her hypocrisy. When she sat on the removal Charlotte Osei and her deputy EC commissioners, she didn't even allow them see the petition or the petitioners. President Nana Addo, similarly, didn't allow t ...
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  • Rokko 3 months ago

    Mami Sophia, I dare you to resign from your Council of State position if you know you are such a principled woman. People like you are all ... COWARDLY TRAITORS. You should be marked down from here on.

  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Not so fast! How did the principled Sophia get to the council of state? She should remain there as voice of conscience

  • Hmmm moment 3 months ago

    The woman got a taste of her own medicine. She was not a fair minded person and always favoured the dwarf government. Sophia should note it's her integrity that force mahama to appoint her as a member of the council of state. ...
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  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Of course the integrity of Sophia is intact. These council of state made up of mainly immature boys not capable of advising even momo operating companies are supposed to advise the president. May God have mercy!

  • BB 3 months ago

    Precisely. She should educate us where the law was breached. She is just throwing dust into the eyes of Ghanaians.

  • Azrilla 3 months ago

    Sophia, don't be reckless! How did you want the hearing to be done again after Araba Kwasia Baa had misbehaved so outrageously in that manner. I guess you were expecting us to sing a lullaby for her, after all the judicial tw ...
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  • Karikakchar 3 months ago

    Once you insult Gertrude your views cannot be objective but motivated by avowed hatred for the intelligent lady.

  • The Spear 3 months ago

    She didn't know the law.

  • NzemaK 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia, you better keep quiet with the little respect left in your blood. You were here when madam Tokernoo was misbehaving, misinterpreting the law as though it is her property.. putting twist on laws to favour NPP as ...
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  • Sheikh 3 months ago

    Sophia, what about Charlotte Osei? Was that also a treason trial? Who composed the committee? It's your (judges as such) utterances that render our judicial system IMPOTENT. The very system you are condemning you superintende ...
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  • CORNEY 3 months ago

    That Sophia Akuffo ‘Addo’ idiot recommended the removal of Charlotte Osei who didn’t do anything that warrant removal but has the guts to criticize a woman who has taken the law into her own hands treating the Supreme C ...
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  • Akosua 3 months ago

    Thank you for the coming out with the bare truth.

  • Hmmm moment 3 months ago

    Charlotte Osei was exactly like Jean Mensah and both should not be allowed to stay

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  • Saul 3 months ago

    This is the real” Mahama coup d’état “. In his last term as president, the man who has benefited the most from Ghana democracy, the man who has gained the most from Ghana’s democracy, the man who he and his family ha ...
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  • Ruben 3 months ago

    Rather be sad for your ignorance and little understanding of the laws of the land and your pedestrian politicking.

  • Eagle Eyes 3 months ago

    Yes of course Sophia Akuffo. Gertrude's misconducts were more than treason. Do you have any idea of the effects of injustice?

  • Agbana 3 months ago

    NDC will soon bear the consequences of this action.... Will bring a lot of bad luck to the NDC. Just a matter of time, Mahama will seriously regret this.

  • Me 3 months ago

    Nothing is going to happen, foolish boy

  • Kwaku Tee 3 months ago

    I was expecting the current vice President, Prof Jane Naana Opoku Agyemang to use her feminine position to advise John Dramani Mahama, on the decision he took.For now they are all in the Sinking Ship.Shame & Disaster will fol ...
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  • Ato 3 months ago

    You are a very big fool. Because your grandpa died in jail under JJ for wrong doing, you hate everything good about ndc.

    If it is bad it is bad. Just keep on dreaming.

  • Demetrius 3 months ago

    @Kwaku Tee, if you steal a chicken and you're caught why should I come to defend you? Sometimes you must think straight and stop this foolish thoughts. For your information go and read the constitution well, there an article ...
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  • Ruben 3 months ago

    You want her to do what? Are you her classmate? With your level of knowledge, can you advise or judge her? You think governance is simply about gender?

  • Kwaku 3 months ago

    She was treated the same way she treated other people. That's fair enough for me. KARMA

  • Achakanapaya 3 months ago

    Look at another ugly witch. Evil woman. No wonder she belongs to the criminal organization who are murderers, hypocrites, thieves and lairs.
    How did this evil woman handle Charlotte Osies removal??? Foolish hypocrite like t ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    These hypocrites are why the country is failing. I don't know the level she wanted dumb Torkonoo Araba to take her judicial antics to, to warrant condemnation and intervention.

    Madam Akuffo has been the exact same bitch u ...
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  • The SILLY Children Afenyo Markins and Annor Dompreh 3 months ago

    Was it not Justice Sophia Akuffo who removed Madam Charlotte Osei, the former EC chairperson, from office using the same article 146? In the case of Madam Osei, she was accused of procurement rule violations, which did not be ...
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  • Ramopha 3 months ago

    Madam, thank you for speaking in parables on this issue. The ignorant and primitive NDC are totally confused and cannot understand what you are saying. Even Mahama is totally confused and lost.

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  • Asakramitoga 3 months ago

    We're you not the CI who removed Charlotte Osei under the same constitutional provisions as ordered by Akuffo Addo? Just keep quite foolish old lady. Stupid

  • Kk 3 months ago

    You people and your psychotic brains. So now tge EC position is equal to the chief justice?? You are mad. Ghana is in the hands of raccoons and dogs.

  • Ebenezer 3 months ago

    God indeed sees all. The chairman of the so called committee has received his share already. The rest will get their share in no time.

  • Sak 3 months ago

    Complete nonsense. The chairman of that committee is a man of strong integrity. Torkonoo and Sophia Akuffo both know this fact about the chairman. Stop the nonsense.

  • Sikiratu Muhammed 3 months ago

    She should go and shout on Thadeus Sory in court again. Osonu maame. Harlot. Foolish woman

  • Aba Sam 3 months ago

    With four lawyers, two of them being former Attorney Generals as her lawyers?

  • Frank 3 months ago

    As for lawyers their arguments are always a suspect. Was she herself not there to testify for her? So when you lose a case does it mean you never got a fare trial? Hmmmm

  • Fd 3 months ago

    What has comments got to do with fair trial? I think she was trying to mourn with her as former cj. This biased Ghanaweb, hm!

  • Kojo Menkah, Bremen. Germany 3 months ago

    She is a deep npp and appointed to that position by npp so will definitely see everything wrong with actions of the ndc. The election petition 2013 really showcase how partisan our judiciary is. She was in this country when C ...
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  • Kwame Charles 3 months ago

    Gertrude Torkornoo’s case was handled as a treason trial – Sophia Akuffo fumes

    Madam Sophia Akuffo is big hypocrite, this because at the time she was the CJ, she did not see anything wrong with the removal of Madam Cha ...
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  • Agnes 3 months ago

    You both go to hell. What's good for the goose............where was you when Charlotte was removed. HYPOCRITE!! Shame on you. Just go away

  • Thomas 3 months ago

    Please it is better to resign or be sacked by the President. The council of state of which you are a member endorsed the removal of the former CJ. If you disagree then resign or be sacked.
    Mr president please remove this N ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 3 months ago

    She abstained.

  • Raymond 3 months ago

    If her case was handled as or like a treason trial, that was because she did too many unthinkable things. She completely forgot she was the CHIEF JUSTICE!

  • Jb 3 months ago

    Wait did you counsel her when she was running amug, ,transferring cases and swapping judges. Delaying cases and fastracking others?the petitioners are also children of God madam.but they happen not to wild the political pow ...
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  • Staff Sergeant Graveyard 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia. So treason people are not human beings? Why is it that you don't give treason people fair trial? Is coup not part of society?

  • Ataapo 3 months ago

    It serves Tokornoo right. I want Anin-Yeboah to be investigated over his stewardship as well. Corrupt people.

  • Kk 3 months ago

    In the same way the goat to be appointed now will be investigated tomorrow and all CJ's appointed in the past by your useless ndc party.

  • Kay 3 months ago

    When you use public funds for your private travels is that not thievery? How do you guys treat a person who has stolen a chicken or goat? If a custodian of the law breaks the law it is deliberate and must be dealt with accord ...
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  • Nii Kpakpo 3 months ago

    You led the process for the removal of EC Chair over procurement breaches, an independent referee for elections. You, Sophia led the process without butting an eye and now u given us lectures on what should be done? Which par ...
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  • TAKE OR PAY DEMON 3 months ago

    Charlotte Osei stole money.

  • Kay 3 months ago

    And your women organizer used state funds for her private travels, is that not thievery? Buuullluuuu

  • Koo Boire 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia . Please why didn't you advise the sacked chief justice when she was dancing to the tunes of Akuffo Addo and Afenyo. She was just plain childish. You guys think lawyers are the only wise people in the country.

  • Kk 3 months ago

    The same way the current is also dancing to the tune of Mahama and Ayariga. His day will come too.

  • Cici 3 months ago

    This woman should be investigated over the handling of covid funds.

  • Yoo 3 months ago

    This hypocrisy is what's killing us in this country
    ...She was silent during the whole process....why now?

  • CORNEY 3 months ago

    We need to remove that article that says a former chief justice and others should have automatic membership of the Council of State if we don’t scrap the entire council.
    This woman was playing the nice guy card to win favo ...
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  • kwame 3 months ago

    If you want to remove somebody because of dirty politics why not just tell the person you don't want to work with her but destroy her first. Her entiretlement must be preserved.

  • VINCENT 3 months ago

    When the then CJ.ruled that birth certificate cannot authenticate citizen of Ghana. Was that decision morally sound?

  • LONGJOHN 3 months ago

    MADAM SOPHIA GHANAIANS HAVE ACCORDED YOU RESPECT OF LATE DUE TO WHAT YOU DID CONCERNING THE DDEP SIT OUTS TRY AND MANTAIN THAT RESPECT ELSE YOU WILL BE DRAGGED INTO THE GUTTERS TOGETHER WITH WHO YOU ARE DEFENDING PLE ...
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  • Eddie 3 months ago

    Sophia Akuffo was muted when she was a Chief Justice during Akuffo Addo’s time and said nothing irrespective of the bad things he was doing until she went on retirement with all of her entitlement intact. She knew that if s ...
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  • The Spear 3 months ago

    Exactly what I was saying. You can't trust any of them. The witch is as corrupt as all of them. She needs to be investigated as well.

  • Kk 3 months ago

    Thank you madam. The ndc and wickedness are bedfellows.

  • Orangutans at the bench 3 months ago

    The problem with orangutans is that they always think they are better humans than the rest of us. So they can behave anyway anyhow and misinterpreted the law to favour them.

  • Dan 3 months ago

    It is treason IF state resources are used for family against the law

  • Majj 3 months ago

    The removal should even be treated more than treason. All her actions in office can easily put this country in a war path.
    She was really misbehaving on the bench as if she didn't struggle to attend that position.
    A lot of ...
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  • NDC NPP SAME DEVIL 3 months ago

    Now that Mahama has come to relieve you on the haircut you have the nerves to talk.

  • Coach 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia Akuffo’s remarks highlight a concern many share: constitutional procedures must not only be followed but also inspire public confidence. The lesson from Justice Torkornoo’s case is the need to strengthen Arti ...
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  • Kasongo 3 months ago

    A voice of reason

  • Dread 3 months ago

    Madam, tell us about she behaved at the committee hearings and stop this.

  • Oko 3 months ago

    You better resign from the council of state to register your protect. Some of you lawyers feel hype
    Go away

  • Kwame Peter 3 months ago

    The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
    -Niccolo Machiavelli

  • Kwaku 3 months ago

    Democracy is quietly becoming the trusted shield for unprincipled looters of state treasures, liars, bgots and warmongers. We must write JUSTICE FOR ALL IN THE HEART OF OUR DEMOCRACY or bury it under the weight of our poor an ...
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  • Fanam 3 months ago

    Stated misbehavior is a ground for dismissal under article 146. Was she supposed to pay per diems to her husband and daughter from state resources? No! If she did, is that not a misbehavior? Remember she is the Chief Justice ...
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  • Sister Souljah 3 months ago

    If she has any principles then she should honorably resign from the council of state, since the whole process started with recommendations from that body.

  • Apady 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia please do you remember what you write concerning EC Charlotte Osei petition when you wrote know ones should comet about the petition. Even journalists not dare to comet. Don't be hypocrite

  • Matete 3 months ago

    THESE AKUFO ADDO AND OFORI ATTA RELATIVES ARE ALWAYS USING THE BIBLE TO EXPLAIN THINGS TO GHANAIANS. BUT TRUTHFULLY THE ARE NOT GODLY IN THEIR DOINGS AT ALL. TODAY OFORI ATTA IS A FUGITIVE WITH ALL THE SCANDALS SURROUNDING H ...
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  • KK 3 months ago

    Interesting. You presided over Charlotte Osei's dismissal

  • Kk 3 months ago

    Because she was misbehaving and her deputies reported her. Charlotte Osei deserved the sack. As for the CJ it is pure political witch hunt cooked in the satanic pot of the ndc. You will live to regret it.

  • Maria 3 months ago

    Madam Sophia what Torkornor did .you are also doing same. When you are at that office .but you are lucky that you no one expose you. Bird with same feathers
    go away

  • Yaw 3 months ago

    Stupid. You superintended over EC committee sitting and subsequent removal using the same Article 146(9). Today you are saying a different thing. You accepted an unsigned petition, constituted a committee to try her without e ...
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  • Mike O 3 months ago

    Opinions are like noses and all humans have one! Madam Sophia has expressed hers but most of those opinions MUST not be misconstrued as FACTS! The Constitution has not been breached! Fact. The petioner(s) were not faceless pe ...
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  • Woedem 3 months ago

    Birth certificates are relevant now.

  • Nicholas Osman 3 months ago

    Mommy S.Akuffo, We respected you a lots ,but G.Torkorno deserves what’s she got,

  • Ray 3 months ago

    A profession which has caused Ghana negatively is the Law Profession.
    They're not straight forward
    Protect wrong doers because of their influence
    One issue, 1000 perspectives. They quote the same law 1000 interpretation.
    ...
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  • Kwesi 3 months ago

    There we go. This is how they are. They protect each other.

  • Abusua 3 months ago

    What is this woman saying? When her money was given a haircut what did she do? Let us stop the hypocrisy. When this woman told us that we could not use a birth certificate as a primary document to substantiate our identity, w ...
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  • Opuni 3 months ago

    It is a disgrace to the president Mahama.

  • Bbk 3 months ago

    This stupid old lady never repented as well. They think Ghana belongs to them. Why should one person should be protected in order for her to keep enjoying in that office despite the fact that she was doing things wrongly. Are ...
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  • Ky 3 months ago

    I don't think there is a God who punishes or rewards people for their bad or bad deeds, else i don't think this would have happened to the CJ through a PRESIDENT WHO CLAIMED HE IS A CHRISTIAN. By their fruit ye shall know th ...
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  • OSAFO KANTANKA 3 months ago

    ADOBEA, I am sorry but I have to Disagree with you. GERTRUDE had all the chances to fight the case but went about things the wrong ways jumping from one side to another and even unnecessarily getting ECOWAS court involved kno ...
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  • Dulous of Nkrumah 3 months ago

    WELL C.O WAS A WOMAN LIKE YOU ,WHAT DID YOU DO WHEN NADA BROUGHT THOSE BASELESS ALIGATIONS AGAINST HER?
    MAY BE CHARLOTTE IS NOT MEMBER OF ICGC THAT IS WHY SHE MUST BE REMOVED?
    IS KARMA BEACH?

  • Demetrius 3 months ago

    Madam if you've kept quiet it would have been good for you. It was your time when Madam Charlotte Osei was removed using the same article 146 process. You didn't condensed it or granted media interviews to that effect as you ...
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  • Your Abuse back to you in droves. 3 months ago

    Foolish woman. So called Judge. Were you not the same person that presided on the same clause that removed Charlotte Osei? You are saddened now because torkonoo is your friend? Or just a hypocrite ?Well sorry for you- The law ...
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  • Fugitive Ken 3 months ago

    Torkornoo has been REMOVED. Go burn the Atiwa Forest!

  • Bino 3 months ago

    Some of her actions and inactions as CJ have bold ingredients of treasonable felony. She abused the power that she was given. Ghana belongs to Ghanaians not any individual or group.

  • Nsoh 3 months ago

    As a matter of principle if you have any, then resign as a member of the council of state.

  • Straooo 3 months ago

    What do you have to say about Charlotte Osei ?

    We shouldn't be a hypocrite.

    What is good for the goose is good for the gander !

  • Nat 3 months ago

    She was going to shield the corrupted npp leader with our money. They panicking now because no CJ to.protect them. We Ghanaians want to justice for our stolen monies

  • Prof. USA 3 months ago

    Why did CJ Akuffo wait for the sacking before speaking out? Voicing out her opinion earlier could have averted this calamity. And the petitioner who doesn’t work in the justice department got all those insider information o ...
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  • Mama 3 months ago

    Karma is working hulèee!!Torkornoo. This is little. You. fraudulent chief justice

  • SOPHIA AKUFFO YOU ARE A HYPROCRITE 3 months ago

    Have you forgotten how you criminally removed Charlotte Osei???. You have no shame SHUT UP WOMAN. You were part of the reason the foolish president akuffo addo was able to destroy our country for past 8 years. The gods of our ...
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  • Agbeli Kumordziì 3 months ago

    Some Ghanaian journalist are just stupid

  • Kojois 3 months ago

    Ghana is doom forever. When you give your country to evil and illiterate people this is what you see. No serious investor will waste his time and money invest in ghana.

  • Afua Danquah, Esq. 3 months ago

    I have been a great admirer of the forthrightness of Madam Sophia.
    But here, clear evidence of the self preservation of the judiciary by its actors or former actors.
    And that is the problem. The rot is preserved and well pr ...
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  • Fadila 3 months ago

    A narcissistic and disgraceful posture by a confused pensioner.
    So when same provision was used to remove an NDC appointee (Charlotte Osei), you were happy, but if same is applied to an NPP appointee (Araba Torkonoo) you hav ...
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  • Madeeha 3 months ago

    DOUBLE STANDARDS!
    I understand this oldlady even recommended Charlotte Osei's removal based on the application of same constitutional provision during the NPP era. TODAY you have an issue with its provisions & application.
    ...
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  • Anisha 3 months ago

    But, you happily recommended what you now describe as a TREASON TRIAL for Charlotte Osei when you were in power.

    NO WONDER YOU CONTINUE TO BE A LAUGHING STOCK

  • Rahma 3 months ago

    No Ghanaian takes you Sofia Akufo seriously because nothing you have said since your retirement makes sense.

  • dog meat 3 months ago

    she is a criminal, because of ties! i said she is dangerous to the society.

  • Straooo 3 months ago

    Next on the chopping board is Jean Adukwei Mensa and her two deputies.

    We live to see !

  • Nana TRUMU TRUMU Addo 3 months ago

    WHY DID MAHAMA INCLUDE THIS CHAMELEON SOPHIA AKUFFO IN THE COUNCIL OF STATE?. SHE IS JUST WANTS TO BLAME HER COUNTERPARTS. THIS WOMAN PLAYED A ROLE FOR AKUFFO ADDO BRIINGING GHANA DOWN TO IT PRESENT CONDITION. SOPHIA AKUFFO I ...
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  • Kwame K 3 months ago

    When she was messing up did you call to advice her. Torkornoo deserves what has come her way.Aunty Sophia don't play the guilt trip on the committee they did their work as the Constitution mandated.

  • Sasabonsam 3 months ago

    I am so happy that the former CJ has tasted the pill she described as good to swallow and sees nothing wrong. A judges at the Cape Coast High Court did violate the constitution of fair hearing to manipulate justice for favor ...
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  • Rogue Lawyer 3 months ago

    J can't take this nonsense from Sophia Akuffu,
    Why did she abstain from voting at the counsel of sate meeting that found the prima facy against the Cj?
    Very hypocrite

  • Test2 3 months ago

    HEY MADAM AKUFO YOU ARE TOO ARROGANT
    YOU DO NOT FEED ANYONE
    GO AND APOLOGIZE TO CHARLOTTE OSEI
    HYPOCRITE SO CALLED JUDGE

  • Lily 3 months ago

    Another dangerous woman