Private legal practitioner, Oliver Barker Wormawor has dismissed the suspended Chief Justice Torkornoo claims that Adu Lodge was the venue used to plan the murder of the three judges on June 30th 1981.
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In a Facebook post, Mr. Vormawor said he spent “time this morning reading the Report of the Special Investigative Branch and the AG’s comments on the Report. To fact check the Chief Justice.”
“The CJ’s claim is absolutely incorrect! Adu Lodge was at no point mentioned, used for, connected in any way with the “planning” or the “murder” of anyone.” – Mr. Vormawor wrote.
According to the activist, the only time the said Adu Lodge was mentioned was when “Amartei-Kwei, one of the people who was later convicted and executed for the murders, claimed that Capt Kojo Tsikata met with him in front of Adu Lodge, sitting in his Car, on 31st October 1982 to find out what he intended to tell the investigators, and express his concern that he does’nt go and say anything that can be interpreted to cause the collapse of the 10 months old Government.”
He explained that “The murders happened on 30th June 1982. And so Adu Lodge was nowhere near or connected to those murders. Its mention was tangential.”
“To claim now that Adu Lodge was the epicentre of planning, is to distort history for sympathy votes.” – Mr. Vormawor emphasized
The suspended Chief Justice at a press conference yesterday said questioned the rationale behind selecting Adu Lodge, a facility located in a cordoned-off high-security zone on Castle Drive in Osu, as the site for her disciplinary hearings on petitions for her removal.
She warned that the location could not have been a neutral choice given its historic infamy.
“I need to make the disclosure at this point that the Adu Lodge facility that I am being tried is featured very prominently in the planning of the murder of judges on June 30, 1981,” she stated.
“Was Adu Lodge chosen for this inquiry to make me feel insecure? I think so.”
The Chief Justice went further to draw personal connections to the events of 1981, recounting that one of the murdered judicial officers, Major Sam Acquah, was her uncle and legal guardian at the time.
“I was also living with him at the time he was abducted and murdered,” she revealed.
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1. Yesterday, during her Presser, the Chief Justice claimed that she was traumatised by Adu Lodge because it “featured very prominently in the planning of the murder of Judges on June 30th 1981”
2. I have spent my time this morning reading the Report of the Special Investigative Branch and the AG’s comments on the Report. To fact check the Chief Justice.
3. The CJ’s claim is absolutely incorrect! Adu Lodge was at no point mentioned, used for, connected in any way with the “planning”or the “murder” of anyone.
4. Did Adu Lodge come up in the Report of the Investigative Branch? Yes it was. How?
5. Amartei-Kwei, one of the people who was later convicted and executed for the murders, claimed that Capt Kojo Tsikata met with him in front of Adu Lodge, sitting in his Car, on 31st October 1982 to find out what he intended to tell the investigators, and express his concern that he does’nt go and say anything that can be interpreted to cause the collapse of the 10 months old Government.
6. The murders happened on 30th June 1982. And so Adu Lodge was no where near or connected to those murders. Its mention was tangential.
7. To claim now that Adu Lodge was the epicentre of planning, is to distort history for sympathy votes.
8. Our History may not be pleasant, but let’s not falsify it in service of an immature self-serving agenda! Thats how a whole generation was raised to hate Nkrumah.
Irresponsible!
