The Ghana Bar Association has described as irresponsible and unwarranted comments made by a leader on the Minority side in Parliament during the approval of Chief Justice Getrude Torkonoo.
Minority Chief Whip Governs Kwame Agbodza during the approval of Justice Torkonoo made the following comments;
“I am hopeful that she will be a better Chief Justice than the person she is taking over from. Under the reign of the outgoing Chief Justice, the level of miscarriage of justice in this country reached a crescendo and must never be repeated. The former Chief Justice must know when he goes home that this miscarriage of justice rests on his chest.”
Speaking at an event to mark 41 years since the gruesome murder of three High Court Judges, GBA President, Yaw Acheampong Boafo said it was irresponsible for one to hide behind parliamentary immunity to make such comments.
“It is totally unacceptable for a member of the leadership of the minority in parliament, hiding ostensibly under the protection of parliamentary immunity granted by the 1992 constitution, in supporting the motion solely to unanimously approve the nomination of the current Chief Justice to launch an unwarranted attack on the person of the immediate Chief Justice describing such a colossus of a jurist in derogatory terms.
“To wit ‘Under the reign of the outgoing Chief Justice, the level of miscarriage of justice of justice in this country reached a crescendo and must never repeated. The former Chief Justice must know, when he goes home that this miscarriage of justice rests on his chest’.”
Mr. Acheampong said such a statement is irresponsible especially when the person making the comment failed to substantiate the claims.
