Private legal practitioner, Martin Kpebu, has suggested that a voluntary resignation by the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, would be in the best interest of Ghana’s democracy, rather than subjecting the nation to a prolonged investigation process.
According to him, although the Chief Justice can be exonerated, the damage that would be inflicted on the judiciary and public confidence during the proceedings could be irreversible.
“A resignation would be better than for us to go through all of this. She can be exonerated theoretically, but if you look at dragging this matter on in the public domain and everything, by the time we are done, the whole system would have suffered too much,” he said on Joy FM Top Story on Tuesday, April 22.
Mr Kpebu stressed that the ongoing process risks resurfacing controversial issues from the past on judicial corruption, which he believes would reopen old wounds and further destabilise public trust in the judiciary.
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com
