President John Dramani Mahama has expressed his disappointment in Chief Justice (CJ), Gertrude Torkonoo, over the approach she took regarding her letter addressed to the Presidency.
The President noted with utmost concern that it was inappropriate for the CJ to allow her letter to go viral on social media before his office received it.
Mr. Mahama conveyed this in a letter signed by the Executive Secretary to the President, Callistus Mahama, in response to the CJ’s demands for the petition seeking her removal.
The Chief Justice had formally written to President Mahama requesting copies of the petitions that had been submitted for her removal from office.
In a letter addressed to the President and members of the Council of State on March 27, Her Ladyship Justice Gertrude Torkonoo asked the President to grant her seven days to review the petition upon receiving copies so she could respond appropriately before a Committee of Inquiry is set up to examine the matter.
However, the President indicated that due to the manner in which the CJ handled the matter, his office was constrained to mark each page of the petition as “restricted.”
“His Excellency, however, notes with disappointment that your letter of 27th March 2025 addressed to him was circulating on social media even before he could review its contents.
The letter was reportedly shared as an attachment to another letter you wrote to the President of the Supreme Court, the President of the Association of Magistrates and Judges, and the President of the Ghana Bar Association,” he said in the letter.
He added, “Therefore, we are constrained to mark each page of the attachments to this letter ‘restricted’.”
