Chief Justice Removal: Central Region Women’s Group calls on President to Reconsider decision

A group calling itself Concerned Women’s Group in Central Region has called on President John Dramani Mahama to rethink his decision to remove the Chief Justice of Ghana, Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey Torkornoo from office.

According to the group, the news of the removal of the Chief Justice was quite a disturbing one, recognizing that the Chief Justice is a woman.

‘We as a concerned women’s group in the central region have been worried and disturbed since the news by the honorable Kwakye Ofosu, spokesperson for the President and Minister for communications that the President had forwarded three petitions seeking the removal of the Chief Justice to the Council of State”, the group bemoaned.

Speaking at a press conference in Cape Coast, the Leader of the Group, Vivian Gassor  indicated that “whereas we do not oppose due democratic  process as laid down by the 1992 constitution, whereas we refrain from questioning any citizen’s democratic right to initiate and activate any such process prescribed by the constitution, we are nonetheless extremely worried that such moves may be embarked upon, not for the good of it, but purely, patently and undoubtedly for a parochial end”.

She thus called for the need  to attach importance to matters of women empowerment, growth and development particularly in respect of leadership roles.

“We are by this statement calling on all Ghanaians to join in our call to halt this process which is definitely not in the interest of mother Ghana and shall render us divided”, Miss Gassor emphasized.

She further called on the Council of State “to see through the lines and without any hesitation step in to prevent this removal process as it will affect the unity of mother Ghana”.

“We hereby call on all women and women groups to stand up to be counted in the face of this creeping cloud of darkness intended to engulf the progress thus far made”.