It is not clear to this writer what kind of “private legal practice” in which Mr. Yaw Anokye Frimpong is professionally engaged. However, one thing is patently certain; and it is the fact that when it comes to dealing with the present constitutional crisis into which President John “Which Payola Solicitation Are You Talking About?” Dramani Mahama has plunged our beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana, the aforementioned critic has absolutely no worthwhile knowledge about the practical dynamics of Constitutional Democracy in a robust and an unimpeachably functional democratic culture in any civilized society and country around the globe (See “Mahama has made up his mind, step down — Lawyer Anokye Frimpong advises CJ Torkonoo” Modernghana.com 6/28/25).
On second blush, it makes absolutely perfect sense that the critic would make such a scandalous and an inexcusably asinine remark vis-a-vis the all too private and personal decision by “Suspended” Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey-Torkornoo to either resign or stay solidly put and uncompromisingly so, until the time for her official retirement comes, or she is physically or mentally and psychologically certified to be clinically incapacitated by her doctors or her closest associates on the Apex Court or, ultimately, by herself.
And yes, Mr. Anokye Frimpong’s so-called advice to the Chief Justice is at once asinine and criminally outrageous and predictably so, being that the critic is also described by the media as a diehard member of the Rump-Convention People’s Party (R-CPP), who once epically failed as an aspirant for the presidential-candidacy nomination of the latter political party, which has been completely bereft of any parliamentary representation for more than two decades now.
To be certain, there is no credible indication that the Rump-Convention People’s Party is likely to clinch any parliamentary seats in the offing. Which simply means that this obviously shameless and opportunistic amateur politician would be better off leaving his sorry-assed nuisance party behind and sue for or plead with the Mahama and the Johnson “The Mosquito” Asiedu-Nketia Posse for some stale sinecure crumbs to enable him pay his bills and meet whatever other obligations Mr. Anokye Frimpong may be owing his relatives, friends and Ghanaian society at large, as has been done by the jaded and the desperate likes of Nana Yaa Jantuah, my favorite comedian and professional political clown.
And by the way, Nana Yaa Jantuah, the parasitic butterball of a staffer of Vice-President Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, may be in dire need of psychiatric and psychological treatment and mental retooling. We shall temporally appropriately be responding to Ms. Jantuah’s patent malarkey and her “fatuous” – pun intended – allegation of Chief Justice Torkornoo’s having supposedly, callously caused the hard-labor imprisonment of “Good Thieves” like herself and some of her Asante-Ajura relatives.
For now, however, we have decided to fully focus on Mr. Anokye Frimpong’s downright foolery by jolting this apparently inebriated and Mahama-ingratiating buffon out of his ignorant and arrogant presumption of cavalierly mistaking the bona fide President of the august Institutional Establishment of the Judiciary of our beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana, a veritable functional coordinate, or coequal, of our Three-Pronged democratic culture of Checks-And-Balances, by also reminding the the butt-burping critic that Chief Justice Sackey-Torkornoo is not just another one of the genuflecting cabinet appointees of the Bole-Bamboi native, from the Akufo-Addo-created Savannah Region, but instead the institutional and the political and the administrative coequal of the Chief Resident of the John “The Gentle Giant” Agyekum-Kufuor-constructed Jubilee House, together with Parliamentary Speaker Alban S K Bagbin.
Now, what the preceding observation unarguably means is that contrary to what the amateurish presidential wannabe would have his audience and the rest of his countrymen and countrywomen believe, Chief Justice Sackey-Torkornoo does not serve or function professionally and politically at the pleasure of President Mahama, perennially and incessantly described by the late former President Jeremiah “Jerry” John Rawlings, the globally acclaimed Founding-Father of the National Democratic Congress, as the most thoroughgoing corrupt Ghanaian leader in the postcolonial era. Rather, the first and foremost obligation of the Chief Justice of the august Supreme Court of Ghana is to the Ghanaian citizenry at large, and not to any individual leader or politician, elected by popular franchise or appointed to the same and duly sworn to service as such.
Ironically, as of this writing, Yours Truly had received an Electronic Mail from somebody by the name of “Hor Barker-Vormawor,” comically “admonishing” Yours Truly not to deceive himself by presuming Ghana to be his personal and private property. Damn ironic and comical because it is only President John “I Have No Classmates in Ghana” Dramani Mahama who clearly seems to suppose Ghana to be his patrimony and familial property and heritage. Maybe somebody ought to remind the alumnus of the Tamale Secondary School – acronymized as “TAMASCO” – as the Gonja Mafia Generalissimo was recently reported to have remarked himself, and apparently to himself, that like all things human in nature, politics is an extremely treacherous and fleeting occupation.
Mr. Anokye Frimpong may very well be tone-deaf and dumb, else he would have heard the Chief Justice disclose to the country that the memorandum announcing her indictment or interdiction and immediate suspension from the portfolio at which she has completely and creditably acquitted Her Lordship’s good self since 2021, or thereabouts – including the unimpeachable swearing in of President Mahama himself, on January 7, 2025 – in the wake of her well-deserving and hard-earned Apex Court Presidency by former President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was first posted and published on Social Media by the Mahama Presidency and characteristically unprofessionally forwarded to the members of the Ghana National Council-of-State, an institutionally non-binding presidential advisory establishment, before the prime target of unwarranted and politically motivated Apex Court Removal was availed a copy.
More significantly, though, doesn’t Mr. Anokye Frimpong suppose that resigning her post well before the findings of the Mahama-constituted Committee of Inquiry has been submitted to “The Doer,” when already Mrs. Sackey-Torkornoo has publicly and categorically stated that she has absolutely nothing to hide, vis-a-vis the flagrant and the forensically bogus allegations brought against her by paid goons of the Mahama government, would be taken to inescapably imply an acceptance of wrongdoing? At any rate, why has the Committee taken “Atugubatrickstically” so long to submit the results of its “investigative” findings or the complete lack thereof? Come on, don’t you so cheaply insult her intelligence and that of the overwhelming majority of the Ghanaian citizenry at large!
By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: [email protected]
