The convener of fix the country Oliver Baker Vomawor has said in statement that Ghana chief Justice Getrude Torkornu has voted horribly in the most despicable gutter judgement over the Anas: Kennedy Agyapong judgement.
He praised Justice Yoni kulendi and Justice Amadu Tanko of the Supreme Court for standing firm and proving that there are still some honest persons in Ghana Supreme Court. Read the statement below
While your internet was away, this is what happened in the Supreme Court.
If you remember, sometime ago, Anas Aremeyaw Anas sued Kennedy Agyepong, for defamation. The High Court Judge in the matter, decided that this was his perfect opportunity to crucify Anas; and so he laced his boots and descended into one of the most despicable gutter judgments I have ever seen.
He left the law aside and went on a rampage insulting Anas and his body of investigative work like no one’s business. He called him a thief, a criminal, a murderer, an extortionist, and just about everything in the book. He even went as far as calling Anas a terrorist. Just a horrible abuse of judicial privilege.
Frankly, if it was the lowest point of his judicial career, it was for all of us another shameful display for the entire legal profession.
Anas went before the Supreme Court seeking an order to quash the despicable judgment of the Judge.
The Supreme Court ruled narrowly against Anas on technical grounds. Telling him to appeal instead of seek certiorari. I for one I am saddened for our democracy that it was the Chief Justice’s vote that sustained the horrible judgment which we should have been quick to wipe from our history books.
But this was a ruling where tomorrow will be kinder to the minority than it would the majority. Justice Kulendi understood better than the majority, the moral responsibility of justice; and as such stood twice taller than the woman he was in competition with not too long ago.
To quote Kulendi “There can be no greater affront to the rights and honour of a litigant who resorts to the sanctuary of justice to vindicate his rights than this pre-conceived, biased, prejudiced and ill-motivated views which the trial judge held of the Applicant even before he embarked on a trial of the case before him.”
In my view, Justice Kulendi wrote a true Chief Justice’s Opinion!
Shalom!
