{"id":99067,"date":"2025-10-17T20:26:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=99067"},"modified":"2025-10-17T20:26:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T20:26:04","slug":"ayikoi-otoo-urges-executive-legislature-to-halt-ag-cjs-vetting-and-respect-court-process-in-torkonoos-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=99067","title":{"rendered":"Ayikoi Otoo urges Executive, Legislature to halt Ag. CJ\u2019s vetting and respect court process in Torkonoo\u2019s case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>1 Minute, 54 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><div>\n<p>Former Attorney General, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has advised both the Executive and the Legislature to respect the authority of the Judiciary and allow due process to take its course in the latest legal action filed by former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo before vetting and appointing Justice Baffoe-Bonnie as the next Chief Justice of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>JoyFM\u2019s<\/strong> <em>Top Story<\/em> on Friday, October 17, Mr. Otoo said that while the President has acted on the Pwamang Committee\u2019s recommendation regarding Justice Torkonoo\u2019s removal, her new application challenges the grounds on which the decision was made.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that in a country governed by the rule of law, the three arms of government must respect each other\u2019s boundaries and avoid interference in matters pending before the courts.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li> Read also: Torkonoo sues to halt vetting and appointment of Baffoe-Bonnie as Chief Justice<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn terms of respecting the separation of powers, and not to interfere\u00a0with the pendency of a matter which is before the court, both the Executive and the Legislature must stay their hands while the case is pending,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the current judicial process is not an injunction but a judicial review application, which the courts can determine without taking lengthy evidence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter all, it is a judicial review application, and when the statement of case is filed,\u00a0the parties can rely on the sequence of it, and the judges can then rule without necessarily\u00a0taking evidence, which will take a very long time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, if they want to respect the boundaries of authority, I\u00a0don\u2019t think anything would prevent them from doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Read also: The CJ\u2019s seat not a fixed traditional stool occupants can claim as a right \u2013 Ansa-Asare to Torkornoo<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Otoo stated that allowing the court to rule on the matter would demonstrate institutional respect and reinforce Ghana\u2019s democratic principles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a country of rule of law, the three arms of government are equal and the one who respect\u00a0the boundaries of authority exercise rights. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd therefore, one would have thought that when a matter is pending, both the president and the legislature would want to constrain themselves\u00a0and hold on and allow the courts to determine the matter,\u201d the former Attorney General said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n        <div class=\"booster-block 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CJ\u2019s vetting and respect court process in Torkonoo\u2019s case\">Former Attorney General, Nii Ayikoi Otoo, has advised both the Executive and the Legislature to respect the authority of the Judiciary and allow due process to take its course in the latest legal action filed by former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo before vetting and appointing Justice Baffoe-Bonnie as the next Chief Justice of Ghana.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_2277560469115098_106292521332774":"","twitter_aToxNzczMzI3Njk4OTg4ODUxMjAxOw==_1773327698988851200":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3413,1917,1883,8032,10,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gertrude-torkornoo","category-hp-news-4","category-national","category-nii-ayikoi-otoo","category-politics","category-popular"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}