Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has been referred to as a “confused politician” by Collins Dauda, the Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, after he criticized the dismissal of former Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey Torkornoo.
In response to the President’s decision, Afenyo-Markin contended that the Chief Justice’s removal was unfair and questioned whether the constitutional procedure had been correctly followed.
“The chief justice was removed unjustly, but we’ll come back to that one. Now, we are a mourning democracy. There are petitions against the chief justice; you are done with one, and you acted on it. Is that the work of the Pwamang committee?” he asked.
However, Mr. Dauda rejected the Minority Leader’s arguments while in Akwatia, where he was at a polling place on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, at the by-election, stating that the procedure was lawful.
“The minority leader is a confused politician, and it is because we entered into the processes outlined in the constitution. For the removal of the CJ, the constitution clearly defines the processes that one has to go through. He should cite a breach,” he challenged.
Mr. Dauda went on to clarify that just because the Chief Justice was the target of several petitions, it did not follow that all of them had to be resolved before any action was taken.
“When you go to court and you are charged for four counts and you are cleared for three, and you lose one, and the one you lost has imprisonment as the charge, the court will not say that because you won the three, the one which you lost will be thrown out. They will jail you because of the one.
“There were three petitions, and you want us to wait for all three to end? Is that the thinking of the minority leader? We have been transparent in the process, and the report is clear that she must be removed, and she has been removed by the president in accordance with the laid-down processes in the constitution,” he said.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
