PHOTO: Oliver Barker-Vormawor (centre) flanked by Chief Justice Torkornoo (left) and former Chief Justice Anin Yeboah (right)
GHC100k FLIGHTS, $14K SPOUSES & LUXURY JAUNTS SPARK OUTRAGE
Ghanaians are fuming after bombshell revelations rocked the judiciary, showing that the very people meant to protect the Constitution may be the ones draining our coffers!
In a stunning exposé, activist Osagyefo Oliver Barker-Vormawor alleged that two Chief Justices — past and present — have blown huge chunks of public cash on personal family luxuries, all while ordinary citizens battle rising costs and economic hardship.
According to Barker-Vormawor, former Chief Justice Anin Yeboah handed a whopping $14,000 of taxpayers’ money to his wife — allegedly to go shopping in the UK. And if that wasn’t scandalous enough, current Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo is reported to have splurged $6,000 on her husband for a trip to Tanzania, plus a jaw-dropping GH¢109,428 on a business-class holiday flight for her daughter to the United States.
The allegations come hot on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling declaring that it is unconstitutional for the President to pay his wife from public funds — a decision hailed as a win for democracy. But critics are now pointing fingers at the judiciary itself, accusing it of double standards.
“Don’t just remove Araba… THROW THE WHOLE COUNTRY AWAY!” Barker-Vormawor fumed in a viral post.
Social media is ablaze, with citizens demanding answers, transparency, and accountability from the top echelons of justice.
“How can the courts say one thing and do another?” a livid Accra resident asked. “Is this justice — or jackpot for the elite?”
So far, the Judicial Service has remained tight-lipped on the claims, but pressure is mounting. Ghanaians are calling for a full-scale probe and a clean-up of what they now see as a judiciary fattened on the sweat of struggling taxpayers.
As trust in state institutions takes another battering, many are wondering — who polices the powerful?
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