Suspended CJ seeks injunction against Committee probing her removal
The Chief Justice, currently under suspension, is asking the apex court to place a temporary freeze on the committee’s operations while her case is being determined
Embattled Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo has taken legal steps to halt an ongoing investigation into petitions seeking her removal from office. On Wednesday, May 21, 2025, she filed an application at the Supreme Court requesting an injunction against the committee established by President John Mahama to probe the allegations.
The Chief Justice, currently under suspension, is asking the apex court to place a temporary freeze on the committee’s operations while her case is being determined. Her legal team is also calling on the court to suspend the enforcement of the presidential warrant that sidelined her from duty under Article 146(10) of the 1992 Constitution.
Named in the application are two Supreme Court justices—Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu—along with former Auditor-General Daniel Yao Domelevo, retired military officer Major Flora Bazuwaaruah Dalugo, and academic Professor James Sefah Dziasah. Torkornoo is seeking to bar Justices Pwamang and Adibu-Asiedu from taking part in any proceedings or decisions of the committee.
This fresh legal challenge comes on the heels of two earlier lawsuits that were thrown out by the Supreme Court on the same day. One of those suits, filed by private citizen Theodore Kofi Atta-Quartey, was dismissed by a 4–1 majority, with the court ruling it lacked merit. Another, spearheaded by the Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems (CenCES), met a similar fate. CenCES had sought to overturn the President’s suspension of the Chief Justice and halt the committee’s work, but the Court upheld the constitutionality of the President’s action.
