Justice Obimpeh to contest dismissal

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January 20, 2016 3:31 PM

Justice Ernest Obimpeh and Justice Ajet Nasam were on Tuesday removed from office as Justices of the High Court following a directive by President John Mahama.

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Lawyers for dismissed High Court judge, Justice Ernest Obimpeh have said they will contest the dismissal of their client.

Justice Ernest Obimpeh and Justice Ajet Nasam were on Tuesday removed from office as Justices of the High Court following a directive by President John Mahama. The removal is on grounds of stated misbehaviour after they were both implicated in the judicial corruption scandal.

However, Ken Anku, lead lawyer of Justice Obimpeh, said he and his client will contest the decision of the committee at the 'proper forum.'

“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,” the lawyer added.

The decision by the president to remove the two followed his acceptance of a report by the five member impeachment committee which investigated their conduct after an expose' by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in August 2015.

The two Justices were seen on tape taking bribes to free criminals whose cases they were ajudicating. This was contained in a petition to the Chief Justice by Tigereyepi a a private investigative firm headed by Anas Aremeyaw Anas. The petition requested the president to initiate impeachment action against the Justices in accordance with article 146 of the 1992 contitution.

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