By Fuvi Kloku : Editorial Contributor-September 3, 2025.
In a recent interview, former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo expressed sorrow over the invocation of Article 146, the constitutional provision governing the removal of certain officeholders. But for many observers, her comments ring hollow. The very mechanism she now critiques was once wielded by her own hand to remove former Electoral Commission Chair Charlotte Osei. To lament its use today is not introspection, it’s revisionism.
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During her tenure as Chief Justice, Akuffo oversaw a process that denied Charlotte Osei the basic procedural dignity of receiving the petitions before being summoned to testify. The committee she convened operated under a veil of secrecy, with no public disclosure of its membership or guiding framework. It was a moment that reshaped Ghana’s democratic institutions, and one that many still view as a precedent-setting exercise of judicial power.
Now, years later, Akuffo’s public discomfort with the same constitutional tool raises troubling questions. Is the law only palatable when it serves one’s purpose? Is accountability negotiable depending on who sits in the crosshairs?
To express sadness over Article 146’s application today, without acknowledging its prior use under her leadership, is not just hypocrisy—it’s an affront to institutional memory. The law is not a matter of convenience. It is a covenant of consistency. When wielded selectively, it ceases to be a safeguard and becomes a weapon.
Public office demands more than legal literacy, it demands moral clarity. And when those who once enforced the law now recoil from its consequences, it undermines the very credibility of our constitutional order.
What’s truly regrettable is not the process, it’s the attempt to rewrite its legacy. Ghana’s democracy deserves better than selective outrage. It deserves leaders who stand by the principles they once enforced, even when the winds of politics shift.
In the end, Article 146 is not the problem. The problem is pretending it only matters when it’s politically convenient.
*Birds & Feathers:*
_Sophia Akuffo condemns sacking of Sackey Torkornoo…_
*Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo survived an Article 146 Petition because her cousin Akufo Addo refused to act on the the Petition for 2years until she retired on her 70th birthday…*
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo paid GHc7000 for prime Cantonments State Land worth millions together with others including Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey…
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo instead of recusing herself, sat as a judge in the Jake Obetsebi-Lamptey Ridge Bungalow Case knowing that she and Jake had been allocated State Lands in Cantonments…
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo ruled against Jake keeping the Bungalow but she has till date kept the Cantonments Land despite demands for its return and an Article 146 Petition for her removal…
President Akufo Addo; according to his cousin Gabby Asare Ochere-Darko, declined the offer of State Lands which was via phone call, claiming it was immoral.
Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Woode confirmed that she was also offered via phone prime Airport Residential area State Lands originally acquired for the International Students Hostel, which she accepted and swapped with her cheap Akweteyman land…
Following an Article 146 Petition for her removal as Chief Justice; Georgina Theodora Woode confessed and agreed to extinguish any interest in the International Students Hostel land…
President John Evans Atta Mills reversed the allocation of the International Students Hostel land and used it to construct the New Foreign Affairs Ministry Office Complex to replace the one burnt under Akufo Addo as Foreign Minister in the wake of the Diplomatic Passport Scandal in which several were found with drug barons…
*ALL THREE FEMALE CHIEF JUSTICES HAVE ALL BEEN SUBJECT OF ARTICLE 146 PETITIONS.*
Georgina Theodora Woode and Sophia Akuffo escaped being removed from office through the Article 146 Petitions brought against them for stated misbehaviour as per the 1992 Constitution.
Georgina Theodora Woode has again been allocated State Land in Cantonments originally acquired for the Ghana Civil Aviation Authority for wireless aircraft navigation…
*Georgina Theodora Woode, Governor Addison and his deputies together with known Galamseyers like Kate Gyamfuah were sold the Cantonments Civil Aviation Land at ridiculous prices…*
All the Cantonments Civil Aviation Land has been looted, even the land on which the navigation equipment and Masts were sold after the Masts were relocated to the one plot left for the Aircraft Accident Incident Investigations Prevention Bureau office at the centre of that Looted State Land.
*THE LA MANTSE NII KPOBI TETTEY TSURU III RESISTED THE SALE OF THE CANTONMENTS CIVIL AVIATION LAND UNTIL HE DIED IN FEBRUARY, 2019 and by September the same year the entire land had been looted and fraudulently sold…*
Sophia Akuffo as a member of the Council of State, opted to prevent the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo moving forward…
The rest of the Council of State voted to have the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo investigated as per the Constitution when they determined that there was a Prima Facie case against her…
Chief Justice Torkornoo was thus suspended pending the 5-member Committee investigating the allegations against her…
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo testified for Chief Justice Torkornoo in the hope of overturning the Article 146 Petition for her removal…
Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo is now condemning the removal of Chief Justice Torkornoo after the Investigative Committee recommended her removal based on their conclusion of one of the Petitions for her removal…
The removal of a Chief Justice requires only one Article 146 Petition being successful; regardless of the number of Petitions submitted for the same purpose…
*Sophia Akuffo must count herself lucky because if the Article 146 Petition were to be examined today; she would have been removed like Torkornoo.*
The Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo had attached in the appendix of the petition a long list of Land Looters complete with particulars of the hundreds of Looting transactions attached detailing the size of the land, date of allocation and amounts paid.
The status of all State Acquired Lands and Bungalows will expose the sheered scope of the Looting especially of prime La Stool Lands…
It is gratifying that President John Dramani Mahama promised to establish a Presidential Commission of Enquiry into the Looted or Stolen State Lands, Bungalows and Expropriation of GaDangme Lands particularly the La Stool Lands which are the most prime lands and most affected by the State Sponsored Looting.
*It is heartwarming that President John Dramani Mahama has directed the Lands Ministry to immediately conduct a comprehensive Auditor all State Lands allocated, leased or sold.*
*Operation Recover All Loot (ORAL) must lead to the retrieval of all the Loot including the Sophia Akuffo and Georgina Theodora Woode State Lands…*
The retrieval of looted State Lands originally acquired from the La Stool must result in the return of significant portions to the La Stool as envisioned in Article 20 (5)(6) of the Constitution of Ghana.
The La Stool by a Petition from the La Mantse Nii Kpobi Tettey Tsuru to the President titled Clandestine annexation of La Lands by the Ghana Armed Forces laid the foundation for the Article 146 Petition for the removal of Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, as she by her conduct and complicity in La Land Looting or fraudulent allocation of State Lands at ridiculous prices made her unfit to superintend or empanel Courts for any Land case in which the La Stool was a party.
_BIRDS OF THE SAME FEATHER…_
Indeed, after the Charlotte Osei removal via an Article 146 Petition; Jean Adukwei Mensa has escaped Article 146 Petitions but not for long…
Ghanaians are resolved to be Citizens and not Spectators…
God Bless Our Homeland Ghana.
Amen!!!
_Will Jean Adukwei Mensa and her pro-NPP Electoral Commission colleagues resign or wait?_