Thaddeus Sory (L), Gertrude Torkornoo and Alexander Afenyo-Markin
Private legal practitioner Thaddeus Sory has alleged that the Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, and the removed Chief Justice, Gertrude Torkornoo, are related.
According to him, the family ties between the two played a key role in the petition filed by his client for her removal.
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“That is his (Afenyo-Markin) sister; the removed Chief Justice is his sister; they come from the same place. When her father died, the Minority Leader hosted her visitors, and people who were there called me,” he stated in an interview with KSM, monitored by GhanaWeb on November 24, 2025.
He suggested that the Minority Leader’s personal interest in the matter may have shaped the collective positions taken in Parliament.
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“He sold it out to his colleagues to believe that, well, we all have to take the collective position against this, but it is a personal interest. … And so he’s crying, crying louder than every other person because he has an interest in the woman being there,” he noted.
After two years in office, Gertrude Torkornoo was removed, making her the second Chief Justice in Ghanaian history to be removed from office.
The first was Justice Sir Arku Korsah, who was sacked by Ghana’s first leader, President Kwame Nkrumah, in 1963.
President John Dramani Mahama acted on the recommendation of a constitutional committee formed under Article 146 of the 1992 Constitution, which probed three petitions accusing her of misconduct in office.
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Afenyo Markin was one of the reasons why my client petitioned for the removal of Torkornoo – Thaddeus Sory pic.twitter.com/LHitiu9DcU
— Hubert Tieku Esq (@KwesiHubert) November 24, 2025
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