The Office of the President on Monday, September 1, 2025, announced the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo by President John Dramani Mahama.
The decision came just hours after the President received the report of a five-member committee he had set up, in accordance with the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, to probe three petitions seeking the Chief Justice’s removal.
Even before the committee began its work, leading figures of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), including Mustapha Gbande, Deputy Director of Operations at the Office of the President, had publicly declared that Justice Torkornoo’s fate was already sealed.
Gbande had also asserted that the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission (EC), Jean Mensa, alongside the Chief Justice, would certainly be removed from office, stressing that their exit was only a matter of time, 3news.com reported.
He argued that both the Chief Justice and the EC Chair had proven themselves to be politically exposed individuals and, therefore, could not continue to hold such sensitive positions.
Gbande dismissed suggestions that their removal by President Mahama would set a dangerous precedent.
Mahama sacks Chief Justice Gertrude TorkonooPublished
“We haven’t amended our laws. The same law gave President Akufo-Addo the right to remove Charlotte Osei. They are all independent institutions, yet he removed her.
“We have come not just to repeat precedents, but to address each case individually. The Chief Justice will have to go, the EC Chairperson and other politically exposed directors will have to go and indeed, they will go. It is just a matter of time, so we can fill those positions with individuals who are not politically exposed,” he earlier stated.
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