According to Accra mail, the Chairman of an Accra Circuit Tribunal, Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson-Yeboah had been dismissed from the Judicial Service for taking bribe and incompetence.
The General Legal Council, the supreme organ of the Bar and Bench, tasked to ensure high standards in the legal profession dismissed the disgraced Judge on the grounds cited above.
Her dismal followed a report by a Committee of Inquiry set up in April this year to investigate an ?80 million bribe received from a suspect in a murder case she was presiding over.
Sources close to the judiciary told ADM that among the two-third majority who voted in favour of the dismissal were the Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Nana Akufo-Addo, the President of the Ghana Bar Association (GBA), Mr. Paul Adu-Gyamfi and the Chief Justice (CJ), Mr. Edward K. Wiredu.
The Judicial Secretary, Mr. Owusu-Ansah who confirmed the dismissal on an Accra FM news bulletin said the action should not be misconstrued to mean that the entire judiciary is corrupt.
He said: "even though we have said that she has been removed on grounds of misbehaviour and incompetence I do not think that that alone should form the basis for the assertion that the judiciary as a whole is corrupt. We are all fighting corruption in society."
He said the dismissal was in accordance with the Judicial Service Act Article 151 of the constitution and takes effect from the 21st of August this year.
He said people are always talking of corruption in the judiciary "but are timid to come out boldly to complain."
He called on the general public to report such cases with credible evidence to the authorities and "we would take action."
Mrs. Anderson Yeboah is noted for controversial decisions. Her decisions have often been quashed at the appeal level.
It would be recalled that some time ago the dismissed judge was reported to have taken ?80 million from an accused person in an attempted murder case. One of the accused openly stated that Mrs. Anderson Yeboah would never sentence him to jail but would rather fine him
True to the accused person's words, at the end of the trial, the judge imposed just a fine on him for attempted murder. The Principal State Attorney, Mr. Osafo Sampong who was the Prosecutor, dissatisfied with the ruling, petitioned the Chief Justice which led to the internal investigation of the dismissed judge.
Mrs. Anderson also presided over the controversial case involving the Republic versus Mrs. O' Sullivan Djentu, mother of Selasie Djentu. They went to jail but won their case at the Appeal Court late last year.
She was also alleged to have taken some amount of money from the Christ Apostolic Church (CAC) in a case to jail some of its old members among other allegations.
