Legal practitioner and National Democratic Congress (NDC) member, Edudzi Kudzo Tameklo, has offered a detailed explanation of the much-discussed CCTV footage that allegedly captures a meeting between lawyer Thaddeus Sory and some Supreme Court judges.

According to Tameklo, the footage debunks the claims circulated by some members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) suggesting an improper meeting between the legal practitioner and the judges regarding the ongoing hearing of petitions to remove the Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, from office.

Describing the alleged meeting as a “so-called dinner,” Tameklo accused the NPP and its media surrogates of attempting to create a false narrative to undermine the integrity of the court process.

He stated that the video in question tells “a completely different story” from what has been sensationally reported.

What the CCTV Footage Shows

According to Tameklo, the CCTV recording, labelled “restaurant”, captures the following sequence:

1. Lawyer Thaddeus Sory is seen seated at a table in the middle of the restaurant with businessman Kotei Dzani, having a meal and conversing.
2. During the course of the footage, three individuals—including Justice Yoni Kulendi—enter the restaurant. The first among them walks past Sory’s table without noticing his presence.
3. Justice Kulendi is then seen noticing Mr. Dzani, shaking hands with him, and briefly greeting Thaddeus Sory in what Tameklo describes as a “chitchat” before proceeding to join the group he came in with.
4. Upon noticing another judge’s presence in the restaurant, Sory gets up to extend a courteous greeting, a gesture Tameklo emphasised is customary between members of the Bar and Bench.
5. The entire interaction, from greeting to departure, is said to last less than a minute.

Tameklo added that the footage “shows clearly” that:

• There was no private or formal meeting between Sory and the judges;
• The interaction was purely out of courtesy, as is standard within the legal fraternity;
• Justice Pwamang, whom the reports had linked to the alleged meeting, does not appear in the video at all;
• Justice Asiedu initially passed by without recognising Sory’s presence and only became aware after being alerted by Justice Kulendi.

A second clip, labelled “entrance”, reportedly shows the three individuals, including Justice Kulendi, entering or leaving the restaurant in a straightforward manner—further dismissing any notion of secrecy or undue engagement.

“Be the Judge”

Tameklo encouraged the public to watch the footage themselves and come to their own conclusions, asserting that what occurred was no different from “seeing a colleague in town and exchanging pleasantries without more.”

“What the video reveals is a simple moment of civility, not a clandestine meeting,” Tameklo stressed. “All the noise around this so-called dinner is just political mischief.”

He urged the media and political actors to refrain from maligning the integrity of legal professionals and members of the judiciary with what he described as “poisonous allegations” that lack basis in fact.