The President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, has urged suspended Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo to end her legal challenge to the hearing of petitions seeking her removal, following the Supreme Court’s dismissal of her injunction application.

The Chief Justice had sought to halt the proceedings of a five-member presidential committee investigating the multiple petitions seeking her removal from office.

However, the apex court on Wednesday, 28th May, rejected her interlocutory request, paving the way for the committee’s work to continue uninterrupted.

Justice Torkornoo’s application also sought to prevent the participation of the committee’s members—Justices Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, former Auditor-General Daniel Yao Domelevo, Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and Professor James Sefah Dziasah.

Speaking on Channel One TV on Saturday, 31 May, Franklin Cudjoe expressed concern over Justice Torkornoo’s ongoing legal resistance.

“At this juncture, my honest view is that she should just give up, because the way things are going, there’s no way [she will sail through]. She will be remembered in history that she fought. Maybe that is what she wants,” he remarked.

Mr Cudjoe further criticised what he described as a misjudgement on the part of Justice Torkornoo in requesting that her husband and daughter be allowed to attend the inquiry sessions.

“It’s a bit pity and sad for her to say that her husband and daughter should be allowed in. She should have negotiated with the Committee. If these basic things are denied, you should know that you are persona non grata already; you have overstayed your welcome. As brutal as the process may be, it is the law, the law is the law,” he noted.

Justice Torkornoo remains suspended from her duties while the presidential committee, constituted by President John Dramani Mahama, continues its inquiry into the allegations raised against her.