Minority to question hurried assignment of successor of Chief Justice

The Minority Members of Parliament (MPs) will scrutinize the reason behind the hurried decision of successor of Justice Theodore Georgina Wood while the Judicial Council is not set up, National Democratic Congress (NDC) MP for Bodi in the Western Region, Hon. Sampson Ahi has implied.



Parliament of Ghana which resumes sitting today May 30, 2017, is required to support the Justice Sophia A.B Akuffo as new Chief Justice (CJ) taking after the retirement of Justice Georgina Wood at present at 70.

Talking in front of today's sitting, Hon. Sampson Ahi depicted the arrangement of the new Chief Justice as hurried and unlawful since there is no Judicial Council and bureau clergymen who should offer counsel to the President are set up.

"Wowser arrangement of the approaching Justice Sophia Akuffo is illicit for us in the Minority. … And we are not going to give our endorsement to illicit acts under President Akufo-Addo"

"As of now the President has not named his bureau serves but rather continues doing organizations which per the constitution need bureau's endorsement" he includes.

"I will by and by raise issues with respect to the Freedom of Information bill, the $2.25 billion bond and the visa charge before Speaker on the floor of House today"

In the mean time, the Minority, Hon. Haruna Iddrisu has demonstrated his status to examine the arrangement of Justice Sophia Akuffo to extend and reinforce release of forces of the President utilized as a part of such arrangement.

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as per 144 (1) of Ghana's 1992 Constitution named the Supreme Court Judge as a successor to Justice Georgina Theodora Wood whose residency lapses June, 10, 2017

Profile of Justice Sophia Akuffo Sophia A.B. Akuffo has been a Judge of the Supreme Court of Ghana for as long as two decades.

Sophia Akuffo prepared as a legal advisor under Nana Akufo-Addo who had her Masters in Law (LLM) from the Havard University in the United States.

She has been an individual from the Governing Committee of the Commonwealth Judicial Education Institute and the Chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Task Force.

In January 2006 she was chosen one of the main judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights at first chosen for a long time, she was in this way re-chosen until 2014 and is at present filling in as Vice-President of the Court.

She has composed The Application of Information and Communication Technology in the Judicial Process – the Ghanaian Experience, an introduction to the African Judicial Network Ghana (2002).

One of her well known cases is the point at which she directed the Montie 3 in 2016.