ASEPA Petitions CHRAJ Over Alleged Chief Justice’s US$ 5 million Bribe

The Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA) has petitioned the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) to launch an investigation into the explosive allegations that Chief Justice, Kwasi Anin Yeboah had collected some US$ 5 million bribe to twist the arms of justice.

In the letter to CHRAJ ASEPA insists that the allegations have brought the “name of Judiciary into unsavoriness and cast a genuine slur on equity organization in the country.”

 “It is accordingly significant that CHRAJ researches this matter as per the law and suggest proper assents in regard of the result of the examinations to re-establish the battered picture of the legal executive and some other injury this charge may have caused,” the letter added.

The scandal had broken when a Whistleblower lawyer Kwasi Afrifa, from the O&A Legal Consult, had categorically stated in a letter to the General Legal Council (GLC) that Chief Justice Kwasi Anin-Yeboah had demanded a US$5 million bribe from Chief Oyeedom Obrani Kwesi Atta VI to undertake some “legal gymnastics” on his multi-million-dollar litigation against Ghana Telecom.

On March 1, 2021, the chief had petitioned the General Legal Council (GLC), accusing Afrifa of squandering some US$100,000 he paid him to undertake “ways and means gymnastics” at the Supreme Court to obtain a favourable judgment in his suit number J8/96/2020 against Ghana Telecom.

However, ahead of his appearance before the GLC to answer to the allegations against Afrifa, he [Afrifa] had written a startling petition alleging that he was kicked off the case and replaced with Lawyer Akoto Ampaw, President Akufo Addo’s led lawyer because some huge bribes changed hands to cause a favourable ruling for the chief.

Even though the Chief Justice and the chief are denying the US$5 million bribe, critics think nothing can be ruled out, given the established evidence that judges in Ghana have been rampantly susceptible to bribes to manipulate cases.

A few years ago, undercover journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas uncovered a cesspit of bribery by judges from almost all levels of the judiciary.

They were caught on secret recordings scrambling from bribes ranging from cash to goats.