Gertrude Torkornoo has been suspended as the Chief Justice

The Acting CEO of the National Petroleum Authority, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, has shared major updates on the ongoing impeachment proceedings against suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Sackey Torkornoo.

Appearing as a panelist on The KeyPoints on July 5, 2025, Edudzi Tameklo disclosed that some staff of the Judicial Service are serving as witnesses in the ongoing probe into allegations of misconduct and other charges leveled against Justice Torkornoo in three separate petitions.

“Judicial Service staff are serving as witnesses in the probe against her,” he said.

According to Tameklo, who is also the Director of Legal Affairs of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Justice Torkornoo’s exit appears imminent as the five-member committee continues its probe.

Edudzi Tameklo was responding to statements made by the President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Efua Ghartey, during the annual Martyrs’ Day commemoration in Accra.

Efua Ghartey strongly criticised the recent suspension of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, describing it as a "troubling precedent" that imperils the integrity of Ghana’s democratic institutions.

“All the various calls made for a reconsideration of the suspension of the Chief Justice must not be ignored. In these circumstances, it sets a poor precedent. And that precedent will not go unheeded,” she emphasised.

Ghartey stressed the critical need for Ghanaians to embrace reconciliation and resist the temptation to settle personal scores through attacks on institutions.

"We should be careful as a nation not to go down the slippery slope of endless revenge by justifying various acts with the refrain, 'but others did that too.' We then rose as a nation from the ashes like the phoenix and decided to conscientiously do better by making Ghana's democracy and penchant for the rule of law admirable and attractive to many worldwide," she explained.

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