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Dery, Ayisi Addo sue Chief Justice; demand full payment of salaries

According to the two, Justices Paul Dery and Gilbert Ayisi Addo, their salaries and allowances were withdrawn after they were indicted in the massive judicial bribery scandal exposed by investigative journalist, Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

 

Two judges indicted in the judicial bribery scandal have filed a suit against the Chief Justice, Judicial Council and five others over non-payment of their salaries and allowances.

They are therefore demanding five reliefs from the court, adding that the “half salary with immediate effect” is inconsistent with and in contravention of Article 127(5) of the 1992 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional, null and void.

"A declaration that the decision by the 1st Defendant on 16th December, 2015, and which is contained in letters dated 8th and 11th January, 2016 purporting to place the Plaintiffs on “half salary with immediate effect” is inconsistent with and in contravention of Article 127(5) of the 1992 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional, null and void.

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"A declaration that the decision by the 1st Defendant on 16th December, 2015, and which is contained in letters dated 8th and 11th January, 2016 purporting to suspend the payments to the Plaintiffs of all their “allowances except rent” is inconsistent with and in contravention of Article 127(5) of the 1992 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional, null and void.

"An order nullifying the above named decisions by the 1st Defendant taken on the 16th of December, 2015 and which are contained in letters dated 8th and 11th January, 2016.

"An order of perpetual injunction restraining the 1st Defendant, its assigns, privies, servants, agents etc. and in particular the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th Defendants from implementing the two decisions of the 1st Defendant taken on the 16th December, 2015 and which are contained in letters dated 8th and 11th January, 2016.

"Any other order(s) that this Honourable Court may deem fit to make," the plaintiffs averred in the suit.

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The defendants, which includes, the Attorney General, the Director of Finance, Judicial Service, Pay master, have within 14 days to respond to the writ.

Ghana was hit with a massive bribery scandal in September 2015, when it was revealed in an expose by Anas Aremeyaw Anas and his Tiger Eye team, that Superior and lower court judges took bribes from litigants whose cases come before them.

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