Afenyo-Markin Has Been Wrong on Many Things but not on this CJ Removal Coup

Among the legion wrongs committed by the leadership of the country’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), skippered by Mr. Alexander Afenyo-Markin, that is, the Parliamentary Minority Leader, one is the rankly corrupt and perennial stage-managing of the Elephant Party’s Presidential-Nomination Process that unethically ensures that only the filthy rich and the staunchly backed “establishment candidates,” as vehemently decried and virulently denounced by Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong, one of the leading presidential candidacy aspirants for the party’s Presidential-Election Primary, presently scheduled for January 31, 2026, rather than the most proven politically and administratively competent presidential-candidacy aspirant, as we all witnessed with horror in the runup to the 2024 Presidential Election, when the Afenyo-Markin Gang imperiously and literally handpicked the 2024 Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Party with absolutely no significant input from the rank-and-file membership of the party.

Now, of course, this is not how genuine democratic Presidential-Election Primaries are conducted in any civilized and progressive political culture. And this is also why, once again, I am calling for each and every bona fide dues-paying member of the New Patriotic Party to be allowed to exercise this most basic franchise in the upcoming January 31, 2026 Presidential Primary. The failure and/or the adamant refusal by the party’s top leaders to relent must be answered with a massive boycott and the possible creation of an alternative or a rival political party to run against the present decidedly dysfunctional Danquah-Busia-Dombo-inspired institutional establishment of the New Patriotic Party.

About the only “Party Album” of relevance and legitimacy is the National Party Register (NPR), and not the sort of the patently bogus “Delegates’ Register” (DR) that merely reflects the democratically preemptive and the dictatorial wishes of party executives in the manner of the Afenyo-Markin-faked polling that purportedly occurred at the Accra Headquarters of the National Bureau of Investigations or the Bureau of National Investigations. We also witnessed a similar shenanigan in the Kwabena Duffuor Case, in the presently ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), in the runup to the 2024 Presidential Election, which may very well have played a major role in the widely reported recent humongous slashing of some money owed the Government and, by logical extension, the Ghanaian taxpayer, by some banking institutional establishments allegedly owned and operated by the former Atta-Mills-appointed Finance Minister (I guess you thought Kenneth [Nana Yaw] Ofori-Atta was the only corrupt Ghanaian former Minister of Finance, or didn’t you?).

At any rate, any genuine democratic, political party institutional establishment belongs to all the dues-paying and signed up subscribers and ideological adherents of the same. We need serious and a politically pragmatic leadership direction in the New Patriotic Party, not the nauseatingly and the primitively parochial and self-serving interests of a relatively handful of state-capturing brigands and robber-barons. Now, regarding the downright politically motivated railroading of Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey-Torkornoo by President John “European Airbus SE Payola” Dramani Mahama - now, Dear Reader, don’t you accuse Yours Truly of any gratuitous namecalling, for after all, the preceding epithet or pejorative appellation is squarely predicated on a forensically proven and provable fact - on grounds of three widely purported prima facie petitions of actionable magnitude, it is actually Mr. Collins Dauda, the National Democratic Congress-sponsored Member of Parliament for Asutifi-South Constituency, in the Akufo-Addo-created Ahafo Region, who is confused vis-a-vis the evidentiary mode by which the Akufo-Addo-appointed former Chief Justice was blatantly and flagrantly ousted from a hard-earned and a well-deserved office by a bogus committee of investigation headed by a Mahama-appointed Associate Justice Gabriel Scott Pwamang in a shambolic make-believe pretense to justice, because the only purported incriminating evidence, out the three publicly announced with fanfare to the general Ghanaian public and, to be certain, the global community at large, and publicly and puissantly attested by the Sackey-Torkornoo Lead Counsel, namely, former Attorney-General and former Minister of Justice Nii Ayikoi-Otoo, entailing the alleged misuse of travel funds officially and legitimately earmarked for superior court jurists, was also the weakest among all three pieces of purportedly actionable prima-facie evidence presented by the Mahama Presidency to the Pwamang Committee (See “Torkornoo's removal: Afenyo-Markin is a confused politician, must all three petitions be concluded – Collins Dauda quizzes” Modernghana.com 9/2/25).

Now, it goes without saying that if even the purportedly strongest evidence pertaining to the alleged gross professional misconduct on the part of Chief Justice Sackey-Torkornoo was also practically the weakest, then it clearly makes perfect sense that the other decidedly concocted two accompanying petitions brought against the respondent would not be critically examined by the members of the Pwamang Committee, much less be tabled as part of the final decision upon which the predictably shambolic recommendations for the removal of Chief Justice Sackey-Torkornoo by the Pwamang Committee was based. But, of course, course, knowing what we all already know about a rabidly Anti-Apex Court and, Anti-Judicial Establishment President Mahama, it is unarguably clear that what was really at issue here was not the genuine search for truth and fairness but simply a simple assemblage of an Ananse-Type of hatchet evidence for the sort of Judicial Travesty that predictably occurred.

Now, you know that it is a judicial travesty when the process by which to arrive at a logically inviolable conclusion or decision is blatantly ignored and the righteous demand by the respondent and her counsel for proceedings to be publicly held in full-view and the presence of the general Ghanaian publicly is fiercely contested and rudely denied by a bunch of criminally minded Judicial Roaches Jockeying for power and influence over one another to snap up the hard-won Apex-Bench Seat of the sacrificial victim of premeditated assault and humiliation. In all the preceding, though. It was the caliber and the credibility of the Mahama-commissioned “Sanhedrin” that was really at stake here.

For example, the very sinister and the spooky choice of trial venue by the Pwamang Committee of the Old Danish Slave-Trading Fort and former seat of a clinically and a practically and a morally and psychologically degenerate postcolonial Presidency of a globally purported “New Ghana” and the veritably infamous site of the wanton torture and the murder of political opponents, at least for some Twenty Years, under the historically unrivaled barbaric butchery by the Chairman Jeremiah “Jerry” John Rawlings-led junta of the Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) and, subsequently, the faux-civilianized National Democratic Congress (NDC), revealed more to the general Ghanaian public and the international community at large, than they revealed anything significant as to whether the Prime Victim of President Mahama’s sacrilegious and heretical decision to totally, effectively, definitively and permanently eviscerate Ghanaian democracy even half-deserved what the Auto-Dafé or the “guillotinous” psychological execution by firing squad of Chief Justice Gertrude Sackey-Torkornoo entailed.

If, indeed, Chief Justice Gertrude Araba Esaaba Sackey-Torkornoo is not The Quintessential Martyr of the Implacable Antipathy of Ghana’s Judicial Establishment by the leadership of the presently ruling populist and faux-socialist institutional establishment of the Rawlings-founded National Democratic Congress, then it is scandalously not clear to the present writer and those who envisage the precipitous and the apocalyptic downward spiral of Our Beloved Sovereign Democratic Republic of Ghana, precisely what else it is. In short, with the outburst of the character and the political assassination of the Chief Justice was also the irredeemable crucifixion of the moral, the spiritual and the political soul of the country. Ironically, though, the professional and the character assassination of Chief Justice Sackey-Torkornoo may also represent a metaphorical atonement for the epochal and the pivotal redemption of Ghana’s Judicial Decapitators.

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhD
Professor Emeritus, Department of English
SUNY-Nassau Community College
Garden City, New York
E-mail: okoampaahoofekwame@gmail.com

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