The Chief Justice Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood in her remarks at the Banquet Hall of the State House in Accra during the 18th edition of the annual Ghana Journalist Awards, called for an urgent need for men of integrity in Ghana in the wake of a prevailing climate of corruption in Ghana.

She noted in her remarks that “greed, corruption, abuse of office and nepotism have become the bane of Ghana” and bemoaned the situation where political parties keep accusing each other of corruption whenever it is discussed.

But a Ghanaian Political Pressure group in UK, the Concerned Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF-UK) have sought to question the integrity and the moral locus of the Chief Justice and her Supreme Court of Ghana over the recent call by the Chief Justice that "Ghana needs men of integrity urgently".

In a press Statement yesterday, the UK based Concerned Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud (COGEF) said it is completely flabbergasted at the confidence level of Chief Justice to talk about corruption, abuse of office and nepotism as she cry’s out for urgent need for men of integrity in Ghana, whilst the very seed needed to be sown to grow integrity in Ghana has been carefully and deliberately chopped off by the Supreme Court Judges out of the recently decided presidential election petition held in Ghana.

Talking about the urgent need for men of integrity in Ghana, the group asked; “Where is the Chief Justice Georgina Theodora Wood looking to get these men of integrity from? At the moment, the hope and the very seed needed to be sown to nurture integrity and credibility in Ghana institutions and government was carefully destroyed by the Supreme Court Judges who sat on the election petition put before the Apex Court of the land. When she had the opportunity to instil justice, integrity and confidence in Ghana, what did she do with it?” The group asked.

COGEF-UK, considers the Chief Justice's statement as an indictment on the men at her own Supreme Court and an insult to Ghanaians in general. “In fact, the Chief Justice’s remark is an aspersion to the men in Ghana and an indictment on the men at her own Court of justice in Ghana”.

The group further raised concerns over the Chief Justice Mrs Georgina Theodora Wood’s failure to set up a committee of enquiry to investigate the allegations of corruption and bribes given to some Supreme Court Judges who sat on the Presidential Election Petition, which was reported that the King of Ashantis, Otumfour Osei Tutu II was used as the conduit and masterminded the bribes to Judges in order to have the election petition ruled in favour of Mr John Dramani Mahama.



Signed

Nii Ashong Narh (PhD)



Janet Paintsil Odum

Concerned Ghanaians against Electoral Fraud -UK

Tel: 0044-7950388567