Opinion: Article 146 – Resetting Everywhere

The Electoral Commissioners is worried about the Article 146 Petition for the removal of the Chief Justice…

Pseudo Neutrals are also very worried about the efficiency of President John Dramani Mahama’s Conveyor Belt and wondering how swiftly the new Council of State will act on the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo.

Many Ghanaians expected the removal of the Jean Adukwei Mensa-Bossman Asare-led Electoral Commission to be RESET and anxiously await an Article 146 Petition for the removal of the entire team at the Electoral Commission.

The hypocritical OccupyGhana lawyers are yet to commence the ostrich tactic of selective application of the Constitution and interpretation of the same to save their favorites and remove others.

Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Woode was pardoned by President John Evans Atta Mills when she returned her portion of the International Students Hostel State Lands fraudulently allocated to her, her sister’s husband, Atta Akye, and others at ridiculous prices.

Georgina Theodora Woode confessed that she was called on telephone and made the offer which she accepted and swapped with her cheap Akweteyman land.

President John Evans Atta Mills reversed the allocation of that prime Airport Residential area, Foreign Affairs land acquired for the International Students Hostel under President Kwame Nkrumah for training many African leaders during their struggle for independence in the respective countries.

President John Evans Atta Mills used the retrieved International Students Hostel land to construct the New Foreign Affairs Ministry Office Complex to replace the one burnt under Akufo Addo during the Diplomatic Passport Scandal, in which several were found with drug barons to facilitate their business and other criminals evading Justice.

It is refreshing that President John Dramani Mahama has ordered all allocation of State Acquired Lands under the Foreign Affairs Ministry to be immediately reversed; this directive and that which halted any leases and compensation payments by the Lands Commission must be extended to cover all State Acquired Lands and Bungalows in line with the Operation Recover All Loot currently entering the Arrest and Prosecution phase.

The Chairperson of the Commission of Human Rights and Administrative Justice Mrs Lauretta Lamptey was removed from office by an Article Petition engineered by NPP surrogates under the tenure of President John Mahama on 4th November, 2015 in accordance with the Constitution.

On June 28, 2018 President Akufo-Addo removed Mrs. Charlotte Osei as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission who the NPP had been hounding for years through a defective Article 146 Petition bearing ghost names.

On 21st January, 2021 President Akufo-Addo received an Article Petition for the removal of Jean Adukwei Mensa as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission but refused to acknowledge nor act on it, despite being claimed by the OccupyGhana hypocrites to have acted on the previous one because the President was only a conveyor belt or postal address in such Article 146 Petition cases and had no choice but to act immediately, he received an Article 146 Petition.

President Akufo-Addo had previously in 2017 received an Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo who according the to the petitioners paid GHc7000 for prime Cantonments State Land worth millions and therefore was unfit to lead the Supreme Court in cases involving the La Stool whose Lands were being looted as described in an earlier December 2017 Petition to President Akufo Addo by the La Mantse Nii Kpobi Tettey Tsuru III complaining about the clandestine annexation of La Stool lands by the Military and others for which reason the La State was serving notice of going to court.

The Sophia Akuffo Article 146 Petition included a long list of Land Looters, complete with particulars of the hundreds of Looting transactions attached in the appendix providing particulars of the transactions, location of the State Lands and Bungalows fraudulently allocated, Size of each, lease period, beneficiaries,s and the poultry amounts paid.

President Akufo-Addo refused to act on the Article Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo until she eventually retired on her 70th birthday.

The Council of State refused to give the Petitioners the status of the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo until her retirement when Lawyer Sam Okudzeto as head of Petitions at the Council of State directed a communication to say the request was moot.

There were other Article 146 Petitions against Jean Adukwei Mensa and Chief Justice Anim Yeboah under President Akufo-Addo which as expected went nowhere.

Ghanaians await with baited breath how the three new Article 146 Petitions for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo will go especially as the Presidency has officially communicated that it has been transmitted to the Council of State as required by the Constitution or as the Conveyor Belt is expected to do…

The OccupyGhana hypocrites will soon surface.

Ghanaians await the establishment of the Fast Track Public Tribunals and Special Courts for the prosecution of the numerous corruptions and Galamsey cases…

Ghanaians are anxiously awaiting the recovery, retrieval and return of all the Loot and the Judiciary will be expected to play their part and not shield anybody…

Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators.

#TimeNoDey

By Prince-Derek Adjei