CJ to release names of indicted Police, Prisons officers

StarrFMonline.com can confirm that more state institutions including, the Police and Prisons services have been implicated in the latest corruption scandal that has hit Ghana’s judiciary.

StarrFMonline.com sources say renowned journalist Anas Aremeyaw has submitted names of the officers involved to the Chief Justice.

The chief Justice, according to sources, is writing to heads of the institutions and the specific individuals who have been caught in the corruption web.

Meanwhile, the Disciplinary Committee probing the allegations of corruption leveled against some judges and members of the judiciary by investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas has suspended sitting for today.

The committee, according to Starr News’ court correspondent, Wilberforce Asare, suspended siting to enable them respond to the various suits leveled against them by the judges who were indicted in the video expose’.

The plaintiff, Aremeyaw Anas, has therefore been discharged by the committee.

The accused judges argue that the committee has erred in procedure by hearing the matters in spite of the pending writs over the same matter.

Meanwhile, twenty-two magistrates and judges who were also implicated in the scandal have already been suspended by the Judicial Council. The chief Justice has promised swift action and sanctions in the matter.