Thaddeus Sory, a private legal practitioner, has exposed the Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin, for allegedly profiting hugely from judicial services under former Chief Justice Torkornoo.
The private legal practitioner noted that the minority leader is crying louder than everyone else in the removal of former Chief Justice Torkornoo because he has a personal interest.
According to Thaddeus Sory, new revelations suggest Afenyo-Markin was rendering services for the Judiciary under Torkorno and was getting huge commercial profits from them.
He highlighted that Afenyo-Markin made it look like he was fighting for the national public interest and sold it out to his colleagues to believe that it was a collective position, but it was for his personal interest.
He further highlighted that Afenyo-Markin was one of the reasons why his client petitioned President Mahama for the removal of the Chief Justice.
Speaking in an interview with KSM, Thaddeus Sory detailed, “The Minority Leader was one of the reasons why my client petitioned for the removal of the then Chief Justice. There was a huge count which mentioned his name and mentioned the acts that formed the basis of our petition.”
“We said he had set a precedent, in fact, a record in the court by being the only party, or being the only person who, within two hours, was able to get a full panel of the Supreme Court, presided over by the former Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Torkornoo, to give him orders that by the scope of the application before the court, no court in the world of the common law jurisdiction will give him.”
He added, “In the course of all of those proceedings, and after people who knew the two of them spoke to me, and said, ‘Don’t you understand that is his sister’.”
KSM then asked, “Sister, in terms of what?”
Mr Sory responded: “That they come from the same place. Two, when her father died, the Minority Leader hosted her visitors, and people who were there called me.”
“If I had attended the next proceedings, the next person against whom I was going to raise that objection was the Chief Justice.”
Thaddeus Sory continued, “I said, you know, all of these arguments we are having back and forth, and you are literally descending into the arena of conflict is because somebody that you are close to is the plaintiff in this particular matter. Who was the plaintiff? It is Alexander Afenyo-Markin.”
The private legal practitioner also alleged, “Also, there is now information coming out that services are being rendered in the judicial service which are linked to Afenyo-Markin. He’s rendering those services and getting commercial profits from them, and huge ones.”
“And so at this point in time, when Afenyo-Markin is making it look like there’s a national public interest aspect of all of this nomination process, and there’s some dispute and all of that, it has nothing to do with a minority position.”
“He sold it out to his colleagues to believe that, well, we all have to take a collective position against this, but it is a personal interest.
“And so the facts that we have show that he has an interest in her being there. And so he’s crying louder than every other person, because he has an interest in the woman being there.”
Meanwhile, Afenyo Markin at the vetting of Justice Baffoe-Bonnie stated former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo was cloaked in unacceptably opaque circumstances.
According to Afenyo-Markin, the process of the removal of Justice Torkornoo was a travesty of justice.
Afenyo-Markin highlighted that Justice Torkornoo’s removal breached constitutional procedures.
Speaking at the vetting of Justice Baffoe-Bonnie, Afenyo-Markin, giving his preliminary comment, stated, “It is our [minority] contention that the removal of Torkornoo didn’t adhere to any constitutional procedure.
Never should any Ghanaian suffer such a fate. The removal of Torkornoo was cloaked in unacceptably opaque circumstances”.
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