Professor Antwi believes that such a move would cause the suspended Chief Justice who was appointed by Akufo-Addo to lay back her fight against her removal from office.

Speaking on TV3 New Day’s Big Issue, Friday, May 23, 2025 the Governance Expert explained that the President could as part of settling the issue amicably offer other position to Justice Gertrude Torkornoo as a form of compensation.

“Let me give a leadership advice that I would have given to President Mahama in private. What I would advise President Mahama to do is to call President Kufuor, call Nana Addo and say talk to your girl. I’m saying this with all emphasis.

“There are positions, there are UNDP positions because Hannah Tetteh is now leading a UNDP position in Libya. There are positions that we can have for her, we will settle that amicably.

“Because when you talk to a person through another person, he or she is shy of, he will listen. So, he should call Kufuor, Nana Addo and say talk to your girl so that this issue can rest because we have many issues to take care of,” Prof. Antwi emphasised.

Prof. Antwi is confident that this is the best way to end the legal tussle about the matter and ensure a peaceful resolution.

“When Kufuor came in the 2000 and his brother was the Minister of Defence, there were some Generals who Kufuor had to deal with but you don’t ask Generals to leave just like that.

“So, they were given positions, some ambassadorial positions, that is how you settle them,” he added.

Justice Torkornoo has filed an interlocutory injunction seeking to halt the work of the committee established to inquire into the petitions for her removal.

She has also filed a substantive suit to fight against the attempts to remove her from office, claiming the processes used for her removal are “unconstitutional.”

Justice Gertrude Torkornoo through her lawyer, Godfred Dame filed the suit on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 praying the Apex Court to grant her 16 reliefs which she is seeking.

Among the reliefs, Justice Torkonoo wants the court to declare the prima facie case established against her as “arbitrary, capricious, unconstitutional, void and of no effect.”

She is also seeking a declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of articles 17(1) and (2), 19(13) and (14), 146(7) and (8), 281(1) and 295(1) of the Constitution, a Chief Justice has the right to a public hearing in proceedings before a committee appointed by the President to inquire into a petition presented for the removal of the Chief Justice.

Gertrude Torkornoo wants the Supreme Court to declare that her suspension together with the prima facie cast established against her “constitute an unjustified attempt to remove the Plaintiff as Head of Ghana’s Judiciary and thus, an undue infringement on the independence of the Judiciary.”

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