Dear critical reader, the question to ponder is: Should suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey-Torkonoo resign to spare herself the ignominy of going down in history as a Chief Justice who was impeached? If she were to resign rather than be impeached, it would definitely be a positive development – and ensure the long-term well-being and stability of an African democracy lumbered with a bankrupted national economy – and it would spare her the ignominy of being impeached and thereby prevent the issue from being turned into a political football by biased extremist political ideologues, wouldn’t it, Ghanafuor?
Whatever be the case, the plain truth is that most fair-minded and apolitical patriotic Ghanaians, who love their beautiful and bountiful country passionately, understand clearly that judges do their best to be fair to litigants appearing before them, and therefore don’t want them to be disparaged for political reasons – because they instinctively know that judges play a pivotal role in preserving Ghanaian democracy.
Speaking personally, for example, one needs to make the point that one doesn’t begrudge the compensation judges in Ghana receive, in the slightest. They are deserving of it – if for nothing at all, at least for taking notes of proceedings during hearings by longhand to help them make the right calls in arriving at the judgements they deliver, in the hope that they will stand the test of time and be referred to as precedents in court filings by counsels appearing for clients who give them briefs.
In light of all the above, having already secured her place in the history of the Ghanaian judiciary, as a glass ceiling breaker, one pleads with suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey-Torkonoo to resign and keep her dignity intact by so doing. With the greatest respect, she must see it as her nation-building contribution to the resetting of our bankrupted Republic, oooo, Ghanafuor. Yooooooooo. A word to the wise…
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