Senior Communicator for the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has announced that he will go after former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for breaching the oath of secrecy as a member of the Council of State.
According to Solomon Owusu, his next petition is for the removal of former Chief Justice Sophia Akufo from the Council of State.
He accuses her of breaching the oath of secrecy with her recent comments regarding the removal of Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
Speaking on TV3 on September 24, 2025, Solomon Owusu stated, “I’m happy to announce to you also that she will be the next person that I will petition to be removed from the Council of State for breaching the oath of secrecy. What she has done is so dangerous, it must never be encouraged in this country. And I’m serving notice to her that I will go after her. We need to rid this country of such people.
“She has occupied the position of the Chief Justice of this country before. If you go to the Council of State, she is in charge of the legal, constitutional and petitions committee. Every petition that goes to the Council of State it goes to her first”.
He detailed, “She took part in the consultation with the President to establish the prima facie case. You knew all the issues surrounding it, how on earth would you then turn and go back to the committee and serve as a witness?”
“She did not get a fair trial. Even though it is not a trial strictly speaking, it was handled as though it were a treason trial,” the Member of the Council of State said.
In related news, Solomon Owusu has accused the former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo of buying a state land at Cantoments for ₵7,000.
According to Solomon Owusu, if Sophia Akuffo wants him to see her as an honest person, she must return the land she bought for ₵7,000.
Speaking in an interview on GHone TV on September 4, 2025, “If the former Chief Justice wants me to take her seriously and to see her as an honest person, she must return the land that she bought for 7,000 cedis at Cantonments. I’m scandalised. Who buys land at 7,000 and claims that she’s honest?”
“She knows the embattled Chief Justice in three ways: both are women, they attended Wesley Girls’ High School, and both have held the position of Chief Justice. That is why she did what she did”, he alleged.
Meanwhile, Kwaku Ansa-Asare, the former Director of the Ghana School of Law, has told the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo, to remain silent in view of the oath of secrecy she subscribed to as a Council of State member.
According to Kwaku Ansa-Asare, Sophia Akuffo’s remarks on the removal of Gertrude Torkornoo as Chief Justice are inappropriate and amount to a breach of the oath of secrecy.
Speaking in an interview on TV3’s NewsCentral, September 3, 2025, Ansa-Asare stressed, “All I can say is that our eminent and distinguished former Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana has nodded a little. The public has reposed confidence in her; she subscribed to the oath of a member of the Council of State and the oath of secrecy, so her comment and the whole interview are inappropriate.
“…seeks to realise that she cannot say anything and some of the things she said are just indirectly to her knowledge of what actually transpired at the Council of State and her appearance at the Committee sittings and once she has subscribed to a certain oath, she must always bear in mind that the Oath is a sacred duty which must not be broken,”
He added, “What she has done is in clear breach of the trust the good people of Ghana have reposed in her”.
“My good advice to my distinguished former Chief Justice is that in such matters, she should remain silent in view of the oath that she has subscribed to,” Kwaku Ansa-Asare added.
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Senior Communicator for the Movement for Change, Solomon Owusu, has announced that he will next petition for the removal of former Chief Justice Sophia Akufo from the Council of State.
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