Akufo-Addo refused to act on Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo to protect State Actors, Government Officials, his Appointees, NPP functionaries, their Family members, friends and business associates who had been fraudulently allocated State Acquired Lands and Bungalows by Former President Kufuor.
Akufo-Addo did not want to open the Pandora’s Box of State Sponsored Land Looting thus refused to act on the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo was alleged to have paid GHc7000 for prime Cantonments State Land worth millions.
Akufo-Addo accepted the OccupyGhana lawyers’ claim during the Charlotte Osei Article 146 Petition case, that the President was only a conveyor belt or postal address in such Article 146 Petitions and had no choice but to act…
That when it suited him.
President Akufo-Addo had seen the appendix attached to the petition which contained the long list of beneficiaries of the Looting of State Lands and Bungalows.
The long list of Land Looters included two Chief Justices, Judges and Lawyers, Speaker of Parliament and several NPP Members of Parliament, Cabinet Secretary and several Ministers of President Kufuor some of whom were his appointees…
The Land Looting list included some Chiefs, Clergy, Local and international companies, Embassies and Diplomats…
President Kufuor as Trustee of State Acquired Lands gifted his brother-in-Law J.H. Mensah prime Cantonments State Land as a Christmas present on Boxing Day in 2006.
Yaw Osafo Maafo, Mathew Opoku Prempeh and several members of Akufo-Addo’s Cabinet were listed as beneficiaries of the fraudulent allocation of prime State Lands and Bungalows.
Akufo-Addo did not want to open the Pandora’s Box of State Sponsored Land Looting thus refused to act on the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo was alleged to have paid GHc7000 for prime Cantonments State Land worth millions.
The Council of State for two (2) years refused to neither confirm nor deny receiving correspondence from the President on the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo Article 146 Petition until she retired on her 70th birthday.
Lawyer Samuel Okudzeto who chairs the Legal, Constitutional Affairs and Petitions Committee of the Council of State was aware of the refusal of President Akufo-Addo to act on the Sophia Akuffo Article 146 Petition in breach of the Constitution yet did not advice President Akufo-Addo and has remained silent on the matter till date.
The recent outburst by Lawyer Samuel Okujeto that Cecilia Dapaa was not the only person having shady land ownership in the Airport, Cantonments and Labone areas is true and based on his knowledge of the hundreds of fraudulent beneficiaries listed in the Land Looting appendix attached to the Sophia Akuffo Article 146 Petition.
Akufo-Addo again in breach of the Constitution of Ghana has refused since 21st January, 2021 to act on an Article 146 Petition for the removal of Jean Adukwei Mensa as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission.
The defective Charlotte Osei Article 146 Petition was corrected by the Office of the President and promptly acted upon by President Akufo-Addo with daily media briefings on its status by Eugene Arhin, the Communications Director at the Office of the President.
OccupyGhana and Newsfile on Joy FM/TV were key to the public Education on Article 146 Petitions.
Lawyer Yaw Oppong, Lawyer Kofi Bentil and Lawyer Sampson Lardi Anyenini led the discussion on the President as “Conveyor Belt” in Article 146 Petition cases; with Lawyer Ace Ankoma adding the perspective of the President acting only as a “Postal Address” in such Article 146 Petition cases and had no choice but to act immediately he received an Article 146 Petition.
OccupyGhana folks pretended not to be aware of the Article Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and Jean Adukwei Mensa even after their colleague Kwaku Baako confirmed existence of the petitions and the fact that the President had indeed received the Petition.
Nana Akomea, Randy Abbey, Lawyer Martin Kpebu and others are calling for the President’s office to explain its selectivity in acting on Article 146 Petitions which constitutes a breach of the Constitution.
Hon. Samuel Okudzeto Abuakwa has been requested to ask an Urgent Question in Parliament on the President’s refusal to act on the Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo and Jean Adukwei Mensa Article 146 Petitions.
AKUFO-ADDO IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW;
AKUFO-ADDO IS DEFINITELY NOT ABOVE THE CONSTITUTION OF GHANA.
Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators…
STAY TUNED.
By Prince-Derek Adjei