Lawyers for dismissed High Court judge, Justice Ernest Obimpeh say they will challenge the dismissal of their client.
President Mahama on Tuesday sacked Justice Obimpeh and Justice Ajet Nassam who were both implicated in the judicial corruption scandal last year, after the Committee set up to investigate the judges found them guilty.
[contextly_sidebar id=”GLbZ67hXHb3y69bJ7aTbaDXrXUDUmhz0″]But Justice Obimpeh has said he will not accept the decision.
His lead lawyer Ken Anku told Citi News that the outcome of the decision by the committee “is not only unjust but it is unfair” adding that “we will contest at the proper forum.”
Ken Anku argued that the recommendations by the committee was wrong since to him, the “committee is not the last point of judicial adjudication.
“They don’t have the judicial authority.”
He insisted that the final judicial authority resides in the court of competent jurisdiction.
“Why should we leave it when the process through which my client was asked to go through has not been fair? When you allow one person to be violating the constitution here and there and you won’t find any judge to stand up and say no, all the judges have now been fixed into line to do the bidding of one person, what goes up must come down. Nobody has been the Chief Justice forever, you have a determinable term and it will soon come to pass,” he added.
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By: Godwin A. Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana