Suspended Chief Justice of Ghana, Gertrude Torkornoo, has filed a motion for an interlocutory injunction at the Supreme Court to halt the work of a presidential investigative committee probing petitions for her removal from office. The legal challenge, submitted on May 21, 2025, seeks to suspend the activities of the six-member committee set up by President John Mahama to bar two Supreme Court justices namely, Gabriel Scott Pwamang and Samuel Kwame Adibu-Asiedu, from participating in the committee’s deliberations and to also suspend her warrant of suspension issued under Article 146(10) of Ghana’s Constitution.
The case argues procedural violations and judicial bias in the ongoing inquiry, which was triggered by multiple petitions alleging administrative misconduct. Torkornoo’s filing came the same day the Supreme Court dismissed two related suits—one by private citizen Theodore Kofi Atta-Quartey and another by CenCES (Centre for Citizenship, Constitutional and Electoral Systems)—challenging the constitutionality of the President’s suspension of the Chief Justice.
In both cases, the Court ruled 4–1 in favor of the presidency’s authority under the Constitution, affirming the legitimacy of the removal process. The majority panel included Justices Paul Baffoe-Bonnie, Issifu Omoro Tanko Amadu, Yonny Kulendi, and Henry Anthony Kwofie, with Justice Yaw Asare Darko dissenting. The committee’s establishment follows months of legal and political tension over allegations of judicial overreach and governance failures under Torkornoo’s tenure. The Chief Justice maintains that the process is politically motivated and unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court is expected to hear Torkornoo’s injunction application in the coming days, a ruling that could have broad implications for judicial independence and constitutional checks and balances in Ghana.
