Before the dust on the Adu-Boahen National Signals Bureau Scandal settles, the Board Chairman of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) and Micro-Mini Minority Leader, Afenyo-Markin, and Management of ECG together with others have been busted in the disappearance of over 1300 containers of Cables and are expected to be arrested to face Prosecution.
For years, ECG under the direction of Afenyo-Markin have been buying materials in excess of their needs, some are stolen and sold cheap to third-parties who resell to ECG making super-profits while others have hatched a scheme of melting new Cables imported by ECG which are then exported and used to manufacture new cables which are resold to ECG.
Afenyo-Markin on the floor of Parliament admitted he was aware that this phenomenon at ECG has been going on for years while the Energy Minister, John Jinapor, vowed to end the ECG mess and have everybody involved prosecuted.
Afenyo Markin’s friends at the Electoral Commission (EC) who were doing his bidding by overturning several 2024 Parliamentary election results by ordering Re-Collations and Re-Declarations of results in favour of NPP Candidates in areas where NDC Candidates had previously been declared as winners of Parliamentary Seats; are anxiously awaiting Article 146 Petitions for their removal from office…
Most Ghanaians were expecting the EC Article 146 Petition(s) before the Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo which they were expecting, especially after the Afenyo-Markin Same-Day-Empanelling to hear and injunct the Parliament of Ghana from doing its work in relation to Vacation of Seats and again injuncting the Presidency and Parliament from doing their work by suspending for months the transmission of the passed Anti-LGBTQI Bill to the President for signing into law…
Chief Justice Torkornoo, by these swift and slow actions and inactions, effectively kept the NPP’s slim Majority in the 8th Parliament led by Afenyo-Markin in spite of precedent backed by the Constitution and truncated the enactment power of Parliament, thus foiling the Anti-LGBTQI opposed by Afenyo-Markin and a self-confessed lesbian MP.
The NPP surrogates moved into overdrive the moment the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo was announced.
A busy-body NPP MP with close ties to the National Service Scheme was deployed by the Afenyo Markin-led Micro-Mini Minority to the Supreme Court to attempt to stop the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo.
Other NPP surrogates were deployed to stop or derail the Constitutional processes detailed in Article 146 regarding the removal of a Chief Justice;
Some NPP surrogates and Pseudo Neutrals tried to politically paint the Petitions and challenged the Constitutional responsibility of the President to act as a Conveyor Belt or Postal Address in such Article 146 Petition cases to immediately transmit to the Council of State who after finding merit will trigger the setting up of a Committee by the President to invite the Chief Justice to be heard prior to any decision on the removal or retention based on the weight of the issues contained in the Article 146 Petition.
The OccupyGhana hypocrites who were very vocal and supportive of President Akufo-Addo’s removal of Charlotte Osei as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission using the Article 146 Petition Conveyor Belt theory must shut up especially after keeping quiet in the Akufo-Addo treasonous refusal to act on Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Jean Adukwei Mensa as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission and Sophia Akuffo as Chief Justice.
Sampson Lardi Anyenini used his Joy Newsfile programme platform to facilitate his OccupyGhana friends preaching their Conveyor Belt status of President Akufo-Addo so Mrs. Charlotte Osei can be removed from office as the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
Lawyer Ace Ankoma, Yaw Oppong, Kofi Bentil and other OccupyGhana hypocrites pretended to be unaware even after their colleague OccupyGhana Member Kweku Baako confirmed on Newsfile that he had existence of the petitions being received by the President Akufo Addo yet refusing to act on the Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and Jean Adukwei Mensa as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
The La OccupyGhana lawyers knew that when the President receives an Article 146 Petition and refuses to act on it, he commits a HIGH CRIME for which he can be removed from office for breaching the Constitution, which he swore an oath to uphold or suffer the penalty for it.
The OccupyGhana lawyers played ostrich to protect President Akufo-Addo from being removed from office.
President John Dramani Mahama has kept fidelity to the Constitution of Ghana as he swore to uphold.
President John Dramani Mahama, upon receiving three (3) Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo, without disclosing the content,s dutifully transmitted them to the Council of State in accordance with the Constitution and notified Ghanaians of having discharged the obligation of Conveyor Belt or Postal Address bestowed upon him as President.
Chief Justice Torkornoo’s premature demand to be given copies of the Article 146 Petitions, presupposes that she will be willing to spend the rest of her tenure and by precedent that of any other Chief Justice in reading Article 146 Petitions whether or not they have merit or meet the threshold of Prema Facie determined by the Council of State.
Chief Justice Torkornoo’s demand to be given seven (7) days to respond to the Article 146 Petitions for her removal was unfortunately leaked to the public before and extensively discussed the President received his official copy.
President John Dramani Mahama has granted the wish of Chief Justice Torkornoo, giving her ten (10) days to respond to the Petitions.
The in-camera hearing of Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Chief Justices, unfortunately is being conducted in public and on social media…
GHANAIANS AWAIT THE OUTCOME; even as some have started depleting the Supreme Court of its Justices, two of whom are to be appointed by the President as members of the Committee to Investigate the issues in the Article 146 Petitions and make recommendations to the President for the removal or retention of the Chief Justice.
The Chief Justice, if retained or removed, leaves Ghanaians guessing who will oversee the obvious, the much anticipated ARTICLE 146 PETITION FOR THE REMOVAL OF JEAN ADUKWEI MENSA AS CHAIRPERSON OF THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION and her pro-NPP colleagues.
The Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo has inadvertently created for some the opportunity to unpack the packed Judicial system; this partisan unpacking has begun…
STAY TUNED.
By Prince-Derek Adjei