Accra: Dr Justice Srem-Sai, the Deputy Attorney General, has confirmed that the suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Torkornoo, has filed an application at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice in Abuja, Nigeria. The application, filed on July 4, 2025, seeks to address her suspension and the process initiated for her possible removal from office. Justice Torkornoo was suspended after President John Dramani Mahama received three petitions for her removal and subsequently set up a five-member committee to probe the petitions.
According to Ghana News Agency, the suspended Chief Justice had already challenged her suspension before both the Supreme Court and the High Court. The Deputy Attorney General mentioned that she was invoking claims of human rights violations arising from her suspension without a conclusive determination of the petitions against her.
"Essentially, Her Ladyship argues that by her suspension, she has effectively been removed from her official capacity without a final determination, impairing her right to function and serve in a position she was constitutionally appointed to," Srem-Sai added.
Meanwhile, on July 1, 2025, the Attorney General filed a motion at the Human Rights Division of the High Court, seeking to strike out Justice Torkornoo's application for judicial review. In the State's affidavit, deposed by State Attorney Reginald Nii Odoi, the motion claimed that the application contains a "grave misstatement of capacity" and fails to include "mandatory and essential parties," making it legally defective.
