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30 in Favour, Sophia Akuffo Abstains: How Council of State members voted on Torkornoo's prima facie case

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  • FRANKIE 8 months ago

    Now NPP should tell us if all these 30 individuals are wrong!

  • Limping horse mahama STILL lack policies 8 months ago

    The 30 individuals are just what we called "stomach direction " members,who wants to go to bed with the belly empty. Follow Follow council members

  • I piss on sick dog prophet mohammed 8 months ago

    If you poison islamic children you will go straight to heaven. Qur'an is toilet paper. Burn all mosques.

  • TONY 8 months ago

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  • Nimo 8 months ago

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  • Paa Joe 8 months ago

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  • DotCom 8 months ago

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  • Nimo 8 months ago

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  • Ruben 8 months ago

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  • Alhassan 8 months ago

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  • Ann 8 months ago

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  • NOW NDC IS CELEBRATING 30 - 0 FROM COUNCUL OF STATE 8 months ago

    Politicians do not learn sense especially the NDC politicians.
    1. What happened in the Kumasi elections for the Council of State membership has already tainted this council of state.
    2. What is the offence of the Chief Just ...
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  • Emmanuel Otoo 8 months ago

    You still just don't get it,The chief justice is a gonner.

  • CJ GONER FOR WHERE, LAWLESS NDC PARTY AND HATERS FOR THE JUDICIARY 8 months ago

    So SELFISH AND WICKED NDC WHO ALWAYS WANT THE WRONG TO BE RIGHT.

  • Game Changer 8 months ago

    You can bleed to death, your party Women's Organiser the disgraced and suspended CJ won't come back daa. Your wish is to have her around to protect the criminals in your tribal party from accountability right? You've misfired ...
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  • Kwame 8 months ago

    empty headed person.

  • Babu Dabirka 8 months ago

    .

  • Chief 8 months ago

    Since you do believe that there is no case, just allow the process to flow. In any case, if someone else is accused at your work place, the first thing is you are suspended, then investigations take place. If you are cleared, ...
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  • Memp3 meho as3m 8 months ago

    Kwasia bi ba Ofuiiii. Very soon you have forgot the unanimous seven on the election petition. Aboa tooluwa you see nothing before the npp will remain in opposition for thirty years. Nkwasiafoc mma

  • GH8 8 months ago

    Some of you are so dumb and silly. Was Torkonoo the CJ when NDC sent that useless petition to Supreme Court? Gosh. Ignorant fool yes Torkonoo was a panel member but Anin Yeboah was the CJ. This woman has been CJ for less than ...
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  • Athena- US 8 months ago

    Your stupidity and insanity is legendary. The law is the law fool. When your Council of State under Akuffo Addo was working and advising the worst incompetent Akuffo Addo they were following their anus direction right, fool? ...
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  • KB 8 months ago

    Of course it is. The voting was politically motivated.

  • WHO IN GHANA DON'T KNOW THE FAKE COUNCIL OF STATE MEMBERS ARE ALL CARD BEARING MEMBERS OF NDC? NOT ALL GHANAIANS ARE DUMB 8 months ago

    NOT ALL GHANAIANS ARE DUMD.

  • Hp 8 months ago

    When the supreme court judges were unanimously issuing verdicts de3 you people include His Excellency Mahama called them names and labelled them corrupt. Now your stance has changed because it favours this government. Can thi ...
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  • GH8 8 months ago

    This COUNCIL OF STATE is not just Unanimousc CoS but rather an assembly of NDC PARTY EXECUTIVES AND SUPPORTERS.

  • Wwwe 8 months ago

    Have U see how stupid U are kwasiman ofuibiba Ur party members voted against her hmmm kwasiman it's only animals who do T no that those voted against the lady us Ndc members hmmm tell us how many members Ur so called speaker ...
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  • GH8 8 months ago

    But 90% of those 30 individuals are NDC executives and former executives including the chairman Joe Adjahoe who is a former NDC MP FOR Avenor and Speaker of Parliament, YAW OBEMPEH Ashanti regional rep who was former regiona ...
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  • Jaman 8 months ago

    So 10% of non NPP still voted for suspension?

  • 4 CEDIS TO DOLLAR & 1 CEDI KENKEY PLEASE 8 months ago

    OF COURSE THEY ARE ALL NDC STOOGES WHO WROTE THE PETITIONS THEMSELVES. BAD PRECEDENCE FOR THE FUTURE.

  • Enyo 8 months ago

    The most learned person amongst them abstained…what does that tell you? At least her conscience wouldn’t allow that!! She was appointed by the President, she is a former CJ for crying out loud!! The other 30? The propagan ...
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  • Opposition belongs to NPP 8 months ago

    Ghana chop BAR association

  • BATMAN 8 months ago

    NPP, THE EVIL, WICKED, CRIMINAL AND DEMONIC ORGANIZATION ALWAYS DISTURBS THE NDC WHEN THEY ARE IN OPPOSITION. THEY USE ASSOCIATIONS LIKE THE GBA, GMA, THE NURSES ASSOCIATIONS, THE MEDIA AND OTHERS TO PERPETUATE THEIR EVIL DEE ...
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  • Yaw Amankwaah 8 months ago

    President John Mahama is so democratic. If it's Akufo-Addo , Ghanaians won't even hear a word. He won't even allow them to vote.

  • J.C.A 8 months ago

    Who appointed them fool

  • Shameful 8 months ago

    Do you know them? Mmmoasem kwa. NDC chairperson la and Mahama appointees

  • ray 8 months ago

    @FRANKIE. They are 100% wrong

  • Joseph Wireko-Adumatta 8 months ago

    Nonsense..

  • Chikor 8 months ago

    But most of the council of state members are Ndc sympathizers example Ashanti region member is a,known Ndc man but do u expect

  • Jesus Is God 8 months ago

    Jesus Christ is coming soon so repent now.

  • Concerned one 8 months ago

    Interesting days ahead.Who is who?

  • Justice One 8 months ago

    Eih, Ghana. Now deliberations and voting even in the Council of State can be leaked. Then why are we doubting the process on the CJ petitions?

  • elton 8 months ago

    @ Justice! If you pry beneath the eye of the dead it's ghost that you see:

  • Okatakyie 8 months ago

    A call to publish the rationale supporting establishment of a prima facie case (legal argument) is responded by a voting record (tyranny of the majority)

  • JMba Liber8 8 months ago

    This is an absolute lie.
    Was the media there at the time the voting took place. What kind of attitude is that. Trying all means to paint people black

  • Kofi Akwetey 8 months ago

    So, can we now say the Council of State is now Unanimous CS?

  • AM 8 months ago

    Do you understand "unanimous"?

  • ROGUE LAWYER 8 months ago

    If the GBA is not going to defrain from politics,it must be disolved, disband or liberalised in such a way that there could be 3 or more group of Associations of lawyers.
    the previlages that has given to the GBA in govern ...
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  • STRIPPING GBA PRIVILEGE INDEED, GO AHEAD,NDC IS LAWLESS PARTY AND JUDICIAL KILLERS 8 months ago

    ATTACKS ON JUDICIARY BY THE NDC IS SIMPLY SHAMEFUL,A PARTY WHO DOES NOT BELIEVE IN RULE OF LAW.

  • Prof Kwame Serbeh-Yiadom 8 months ago

    Ordinarily, one could conclude former Chief Justice, Sophia Akufo, abstained for the perfectly logical reason of not helping to push her beleaguered colleague under the bus. It could also be perfectly reasoned that the eminen ...
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  • First Offer 8 months ago

    And so what? I think the npp is more corrupt than I thought.

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  • HDondon 8 months ago

    This vote will not change anything the law is the law simple. President please reset mother Ghana

  • We lost hope in justice department long ago 8 months ago

    We the good citizens of Ghana r taking. Where’s the chimpanzee looking Ado? Pls be mindful we GBA L last week. GBA is weak because justice system is very corrupt. We have no respects for lawyers n judges they r all citize ...
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  • Ghana first 8 months ago

    Npp anti Ghana

  • Ahweyie 8 months ago

    Was the GBA alive when the former EC chair was taken through this same process and even denied her copies of the petition ?
    Sometimes, i wonder why learned persons voice out what can embarrass them before the international c ...
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  • Wwwe 8 months ago

    Lol ofuibiba isei case is different from this ndc and lower IQ members hmmm isei and her members were fighting hmmm and lead everything to us doing illegal transfers with Ndc ofuibiba

  • Wwwe 8 months ago

    How Ndc members vote against the CJ hmm

  • Kofi Bediako 8 months ago

    3 LOSERS OF LAWSUITS WANT TO REMOVE CJ
    The 3 losers of lawsuits on which Justice Torkonoo had presided were the aggrieved persons who filed the 3 petitions for the removal of Torkonoo the Chief Justice. Immediately President ...
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  • Paa Joe 8 months ago

    How do you know

  • Kofi Bediako 8 months ago

    3 LAWSUITS LOSERS WANT TO REMOVE THE CJ
    The 3 losers of lawsuits on which Justice Torkonoo had presided were the aggrieved persons who filed the 3 petitions for the removal of Torkonoo the Chief Justice. Immediately Presiden ...
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  • Tweaa 8 months ago

    Sophia Akuffo has regretted joining the useless Mahama’s bandwagon. It is too late now Madam. You have lost your neutrality and people now see you as an NDC woman

  • ZANLERIGU BAKURI INNOCENT 8 months ago

    The president is acting accordance with law ,the law is the law.

  • Wwwe 8 months ago

    If he likes let him appoint lordina and Ibrahim mahama in this game the law is not the same as propaganda hmmm fools and lower IQ members in Ndc animal after the court issues ndc Los without bringing evidence fools in Ur part ...
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  • Everyone in Ghana knows Sophia 8 months ago

    Abstain from Sophia is not something new to Ghanaians. All the same, Torkonoo would go. Her attitude towards NDC and the Ghana judicial is very bad.

  • We are NPP 8 months ago

    Although not every decision from the president must be supported 100%. This CJ MUST go regardless. Next time she would not politically side with Akufo Addo and make unwise political motivated decisions

  • Emmanuel Otoo 8 months ago

    Abstaining in a vote doesn't mean she is against the petition.

  • Robert 8 months ago

    It's NDC council of state. The late ET Mensah was a council of state member at NPP time but Mahama's time, he said no NPP should win that election.

  • Ghanaboy 8 months ago

    So the good old Prof Azar was right when he said the president is not a judge. Where were you when his petition was deemed as frivolous etc. by Akuffo Addo and his council of state?

  • Shut up 8 months ago

    Don't be surprise about 30/31 why Madam Akufo "Abstains "the value is the same. The are many skeleton on the box.the evil that woman do leave after her.

  • Don G 8 months ago

    Akufo Addo was the one who attacked the judiciary for 8 years & made the ordinary Ghanaian suffer.
    All that the Council of state is doing is to free Ghanaians from these corrupt CJ/Justices so things can be done right.
    In A ...
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  • Ato 8 months ago

    This will not save her. Foolish NPP newsoutlet

  • Nii Addo 8 months ago

    Why should this information be made public ?
    What at all haven't we seen happen to other people of same stature. If office holders act very well when in office, nothing of such calls would be made against them.
    Public offic ...
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  • GH2029 8 months ago

    Much ado about nothing! Whether akufu addo and his cronies like it or not, that arrogant Sackey girl is on her way out@

  • Yaw 8 months ago

    This thing called council of state is needless and must be expunged from our constitution. That’s all I can say for now.

  • Agnes 8 months ago

    Hmmm, now we are hearing from the bar association after we were crying to them to intervene in Charlotte case, Domelovo etc etc.

  • Ike 8 months ago

    But do these Council of State members understand prima face case?

  • Kona 8 months ago

    Which of the members is not ndc affiliated? Apart from the elected members who were obviously ndc, the IGP, CDS, and other nominees of the president were either former Mahama appointees or ndc sympathiers. So no one should be ...
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  • Steve Williams 8 months ago

    Justice Sophia Akuffo did the right thing. A woman of integrity and upmost respect. Absention was the right thing to do. If it were Justice Araba Torkornoo, the embattled C.J., she would have associated herself with the other ...
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  • ghboy 8 months ago

    For NPP to return to power, it Will take God as candidate and Jesus as running mate. For it was God Himself who liberated GHANA.

  • Kwame Angel 8 months ago

    31 members of the Council of State? That is a crowd!

  • Demetrius 8 months ago

    Has the retired CJ come out to say she didn't vote?

  • Odjame 8 months ago

    They did not complain when nana addo and the chief justice were abusing the constitution . The chief justice can exercise discretional powers but the president must be forbidden . Nonsense !!!

  • Adzo Ameyaw 8 months ago

    I would love to select a jury or my pen judges or voters when I get or create a case. I am even willing to select 100 people for my own.

  • Demetrius 8 months ago

    I wouldn't be surprised if the details of the prima facie are out in the public domain. The Constitution until it is reviewed every happening is in camera. So who at all is leaking the info? If this is so the constitutional p ...
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  • Atongo 8 months ago

    When the Israelis are killing the Palestinians like ants, Nations abstained at the UN but they saw the brutality against Gaza. Likewise, the Russian -Ukraine war at the same UN, Nations abstain so if retired CJ abstain what i ...
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  • TK 8 months ago

    NPP has extended their hypocrisy net work to GBA.

  • Kwame 8 months ago

    Rubber stamp council of doom.

  • Yaw Sango 8 months ago

    Anything call Akuffo is bad

  • Perfect Prefect 8 months ago

    Is the vocal abstainer not the best constitutional and and judicial mind on the Council? Of course there must be a wisely good reason why the framers of the Constitution included a former Chief Justice on the Council. Why abs ...
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  • Nimo 8 months ago

    GBA affiliate are stabbing each other in a thank you tour. Who born dogs? Their mummy!

  • Joy 8 months ago

    Those who voted for torkonoo are all thieves and beneficiaries of nana addo thiefy money. Look mahama must sack any one who worked under theif nana from occupying any high sit of our land. Nana addo guys are all thieves. N ...
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  • Shameful 8 months ago

    Sophia Akkuffo must be ashamed of herself that she abstained. Abstained from what? Her posturing is a guide to the unlawful behavior exhibited by lawless people.

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  • Joe 8 months ago

    Politics has eaten too deep into every aspect of the Ghanaian.

  • Obiba Kasa 8 months ago

    CJ Torkornoo with her Mmttwweewww face is now history

  • Quarcoe 8 months ago

    Ghana Bar Association is now a wing of the NPP. It is clear now. We have a lot of associations in Ghana including medical associations, therefore, GBA should be careful otherwise others would opposed them and deal with them e ...
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  • majore 8 months ago

    Reports from where? backed by which evidence? This is just speculations from the NPP which they are good at. Instead of building the NPP party to become more attractive and formidable you are just messing things up for yourse ...
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