Minister of State in charge of Government Communication, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, has responded to concerns expressed by suspended Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo about threats she claims are meant to force her to resign.
This comes after Justice Torkornoo, addressing the media for the first time since her suspension, revealed that she has received veiled threats that if she does not resign voluntarily, she will be made to suffer harm.
Speaking at a press briefing on Wednesday, June 25, Felix Kwakye Ofosu dismissed Torkornoo’s public expression of such danger, noting that suspended Chief Justice is aware of the proper channels for reporting such threats.
“The Chief Justice, more than anybody else, perhaps in this country, should be aware of the platform that is available to address such threats. If today, someone sends you a threat, you know where to go to seek redress in the matter, and that is what I will say about it,” he said.
Justice Torkornoo was suspended on April 22, 2025, following a prima facie determination by President John Dramani Mahama in consultation with the Council of State.
Her suspension is part of constitutional proceedings under Article 146(10), which outlines the process for the potential removal of a Chief Justice.
Kwakye Ofosu insisted that President Mahama has followed due process as stipulated in Article 146 of the constitution, stating that President Mahama has not taken any personal view or choice in the processes to remove the suspended Chief Justice.
He said the claims of political motive are “unfounded and false.”
“The President has kept fidelity to the Constitution from the beginning.
“Let me place on record without fear of contradiction and let me be clear that no such political agenda has occurred. His Excellency the President took an oath to which he was incidentally sworn by Her Ladyship, the Chief Justice herself and in that the oath he swore to abide by the 1992 constitution.
“Any claim, any inference of a political motive to the President in respect of these processes are unfounded, false and cannot be allowed to stand and I wish to place that on record,” he explained.
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