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Wayoe Ghanamannti [L] and Alfred Ababio Kumi
A private legal practitioner, Wayoe Ghanamannti has accused Alfred Ababbio who has petitioned President John Mahama to dissolve the committee probing the removal of the chief justice of attempting to decieve the president.
The petitioner, Alfred Kumi, a former parliamentary candidate on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), cited allegations of misconduct in his petition, which he believes could compromise the integrity of the inquiry.
Kumi alleged that on May 15, 2025, after the committee’s inaugural sitting, Justices Pwamang and Adibu-Asiedu, along with Supreme Court Justice Yonni Kulendi, were seen dining with Thaddeus Sory, counsel for petitioner Daniel Ofori, at Santoku Restaurant in Accra’s Airport Residential Area.
He claimed they were overheard discussing matters related to the petition.
“The meeting between Justices Pwamang, Kulendi, and Asiedu with Thaddeus Sory clearly has tainted the integrity of the process and reduces public confidence in the process,” a report by asaaseradio.com quoted Kumi’s petition.
But the CCTV footage of the restaurant shared on online which has no sound, appears to completely contradicts the claims made by the petitioner, Alfred Kumi.
Thaddeus Sory, a legal representative for one of the petitioners seeking the removal of suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo, was seated at the restaurant with Kotei Dzani, a former Council of State member, talking and eating together at a table.
Sory appeared unaware of the presence of one of the judges implicated in the petition until his attention was drawn to it. After a brief conversation, they each continued with their separate business. It appears there was no such meeting to discuss the petition.
Commenting further on the video in an interview with GHOne TV on Thursday, May 22, 2025, lawyer Wayoe Ghanamannti dismissed the footage as baseless.
“What we are seeing in the video is entirely different from what the petitioner has put on paper. That is why I am saying that this petition is on a tangent of trying to deceive the president. I am a CPP person, I would not vouch for NPP or NDC but what has been put out there as a petition and what we have seen in the video are two different stories. He is trying to deceive the president.
“This video has come to more or less rubbish the petition entirely because the grounds of the petition is what we look at. What we are seeing from the CCTV video is different from what has been put on paper and it has come to put more light and shredded the petition. It takes away from the petition, it makes the petition bogus which has no grounds.”
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