The Office of the Special Prosecutor has on Thursday, October 12, petitioned the Chief Justice to remove Justice Edward Twum from Cecilia Dapaah’s case.
The OSP in a post via its social media pages explained that the judge appears to be prejudiced against the institution.
The Office, therefore, requested Gertrude Torkornoo to recuse and remove Justice Twum from all its cases pending before him.
“The OSP has requested the Chief Justice to recuse and remove His Lordship Justice Edward Twum from all cases involving the OSP pending before him.”
“The request is grounded on the OSP’s well-founded belief that Justice Edward Twum appears to be highly prejudiced against the OSP and the person of the Special Prosecutor.”
It added it will not appear in court to prosecute the case until the just is changed.
“Consequently, as it stands, the OSP would not and cannot be reasonably expected to be parties to proceedings before the said judge,” the social media post said.
Meanwhile, the Lawyers for embattled former Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, have expressed disappointment at what they call the unethical behavior the OSP is exhibiting in the case of the former minister.
The lawyer for Madam Cecilia Dapaah, Victoria Barth, did not mince words and called out the OSP for not giving any prior complaint of the judge’s comments or behaviour that warrants him recusing himself.
The anti-graft body is scheduled to move its application for the court to approve his decision to seize some ¢2.8 million and $590,000 found in the home of Cecilia Dapaah and the freezing of her bank accounts on suspicion of being tainted properties.
This is after the court on Wednesday granted an application by lawyers of Cecilia Dapaah to move the hearing date of the confirmation to a much earlier date [today, Thursday, October 12] than the initial October 18 date.
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