Surely, the alleged corrupt judges are not going to go down without a fight—that is if they will even go down.
One of the indicted justices of the High Court-Kofi Essel Mensah has denied accusations which rose out of Anas Aremeyaw Anas’ investigation that he took GH¢5000 bribe to release a murder suspect.
Justice Essel Mensah has instructed his lawyers to respond to the pending petition which seeks to remove him from office, for taking bribe…
The response is interesting!
Read the full response to the petition below, addressed to the Chief Justice of Ghana
16th September, 2015
THE HONOURABLE CHIEF JUSTICE REPUBLIC OF GHANA
REF: OCJ/PVOL 41/B
Dear Hon. Ladyship, The Chief Justice
RESPONSE TO PETITION FOR REMOVAL OF HIS LORDSHIP JUSTICE KOFI ESSEL MENSAH FROM OFFICE IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 146 OF THE 1992 CONSTITUTION ON ALLEGATION OF BRIBERY
We act as solicitors for His Lordship Kofi Essel Mensah and we write pursuant to his instructions.
We are informed that our client has been accused by the tigereyepi of receiving an amount of Five Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢ 5,000.00) to influence him to acquit an accused person in the matter of the Republic V Mohammed Nii Baah.
Accordingly our client was served with a petition by the Honourable Chief Justice of the Republic of Ghana in a letter dated 9th September 2015. The letter was accompanied by a transcript of an alleged communication between our client and other persons including the petitioner.
The letter was received by our client on 11th September 2015 and was informed to respond to matters raised in the petition by 14th September 2015.
The petition for the removal of our client was said to be accompanied by audio visuals however the said audio visuals was not part of the letter delivered to our client.