CJ delaying SC empaneling on injunction against him for personal interests - Afenyo-Markin alleges

The Minority Leader in Parliament, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has levelled allegations against the Acting Chief Justice, Paul Baffoe-Bonnie.

He has alleged that Justice Baffoe-Bonnie appears to be deliberately delaying the empaneling of the Supreme Court to hear the injunction application regarding his vetting, in order to advance his personal interests.

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Speaking on JoyNews on October 27, 2025, Afenyo-Markin stated that the Acting Chief Justice was able to empanel judges to hear an injunction against the former Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, who was subsequently dismissed, but appears to have failed to do the same with the injunction filed against him.

“… So, Baffoe-Bonnie also has an NDC interest that is why he was in a hurry to empanel to abridge time to determine the injunction, get them dismissed, but the substantive matter, he will shut his eyes on it.

“I'm waiting on when My Lord Baffoe-Bonnie would empanel the court to look into the substantive matters, those by the Chief Justice herself and other Civil Society Organisations, even the High Court one. By his conduct, it's obvious otherwise. What is he waiting for? The matter is before him and he has the responsibility to empanel,” Afenyo-Markin alleged.

Afenyo-Markin, who is also the Member of Parliament for Effutu, questioned the rationale behind the removal of the former Chief Justice based on petitions.

According to him, in the matter between Afenyo-Markin and the Speaker, the former Chief Justice committed no wrongdoing in determining the case swiftly.

He asserted that the former Chief Justice acted in the interest of the constitution.

“What did she do wrong in the Afenyo-Markin case? A constitutional matter of that urgent nature had been occasioned by a pronouncement by the Speaker, government business had been stalled, and you don't think that a constitutional court had the bona fide responsibility in that circumstance to consider and determine the matter?” he quizzed.

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He added, “I'm surprised. Why those arguments? People trivialise everything. In any event, what was her interest in the Afenyo-Markin case against the Speaker? What was Torkornoo’s interest? The Chief Justice, what was her interest? Did she have any interest personal to her other than the constitution? Let's be fair.”

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