{"id":225283,"date":"2016-06-24T18:58:38","date_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=225283"},"modified":"2016-06-24T18:58:38","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:58:38","slug":"mahama-sacks-another-judge-over-anas-expose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/06\/mahama-sacks-another-judge-over-anas-expose\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama sacks another judge over Anas’ expos\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another High court judge cited in the infamous judicial corruption scandal uncovered by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas, and his Tiger Eye PI firm, has been removed from office effective June 20, 2016.<\/p>\n

Ivy Heward Mills is the latest casualty in the ongoing investigations of misconduct against some of the country’s judges both at the lower and high courts, who were captured on video, taking bribes to influence justice.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”MPYYKdrokuV7AwkW4O2ryGuwEhSqqMhX”]According to a statement signed by first deputy Judicial Secretary Justice Juliana Amonoo-Neizer, Ivy Heward Mills was \u201cfound culpable\u201d in the scandal uncovered by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas of Tigereyepi.<\/p>\n

Some 22 lower court judges and 12 High Court judges were captured on video in a two-year investigative piece by Anas Aremeyaw Anas, allegedly taking bribes to influence justice.<\/p>\n

So far, about\u00a020<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the lower court judges have been removed from office. \u00a0Already, three High Court judges, namely Justice Kofi Essel Mensah, Justice Francis K. Opoku, and Justice John Ajet Nassam have been sacked <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in that regard.<\/p>\n

The Judicial Service thus directed the Director of Human Resource to \u201cdelete her name from the payroll of the Judicial Service with effect from June 20, 2016.\u201d<\/p>\n

The decision to remove her from office followed a recommendation by the committee set up by the Lady Chief Justice Georgina Wood, to investigate a petition from Anas Aremeyaw Anas of Tigereyepi \u00a0on grounds of Stated Misbehavior.<\/p>\n

President Mahama accused of ‘bribery’<\/strong><\/p>\n

The removal of the judge comes at a time \u00a0when the President, John Dramani Mahama, has been accused of accepting a \u00a0‘bribe’ <\/a><\/strong><\/span>in the form of a Ford Expedition vehicle given to him as a ‘gift’ by a Burkinabe contractor, who was seeking contracts from government, and eventually executed two contracts.<\/p>\n

He took the ‘gift’ in 2012 when he was Vice President.\u00a0Some members of the public have questioned why members of the judiciary are being dismissed for similarly accepting bribes lesser than the President’s $100,000 car gift to influence justice.<\/p>\n

Government has admitted that, although the President accepted the gift, he did not use it personally since it was added to the pool of government vehicles. It thus absorbed the President from any act of corruption or conflict of interest.<\/p>\n

The President has vehemently rubbished the allegations of bribery, urging his critics to use the courts to pursue him.<\/p>\n

Already, the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has received two petitions<\/a><\/strong><\/span> asking it to investigate the President for the acceptance of the gift and the circumstances surrounding it.<\/p>\n

Below is the full statement on the dismissal of Justice\u00a0Ivy Heward Mills<\/strong><\/p>\n

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According to the statement the Committee during its investigations into the petition by Anas Aremeyaw Anas of Tigereyepi found that Justice Ivy Heward Mills:<\/p>\n