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New Crusading Guide editor-in-chief Abdul Malik Kweku Baako downplayed the $ 5 million corruption allegation against Chief Justice Kwesi Anin-Yeboah.
According to him, the allegation is unfounded and should be treated with the contempt it deserves.
“It’s useless and malicious, and you have to throw it in the trash. He’s not going anywhere. I don’t believe in one iota of the allegations, but I am just an individual. This is patent hogwash, ”he said.
Mr Baako made the remark on Newsfile on Saturday, July 17, 2021.
A private lawyer, Akwasi Afrifa, while responding to a petition filed against him at the General Legal Council, alleged that a former client he represented on the Supreme Court told him that the chief justice had asked him for a $ 5 million bribe to supposedly sway a court case in his favor.
Anin-Yeboah denied the allegation and asked the Director General of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to investigate the case.
There has been since opposition calls National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the Chief Justice to step aside while the allegation is investigated.
NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketiah, at a press conference on Tuesday, July 13, 2021, argued that this would allow a fair investigation into the misconduct allegations against the chief justice.
“The difficulty with this is that the investigations would concern the Chief Justice, who is the subject of the corruption allegations in this case and to whom disciplinary authority against judicial officers is vested under Article 18 of the law on the judicial function.
“Good governance requires the Chief Justice to step aside while the Judicial Service is investigating the issue of alleged misconduct on his part as a Supreme Court judge. The Chief Justice cannot be a judge in his own case, and therefore cannot set up a committee to investigate allegations of misconduct against himself.
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