Ace Ankomah, from one of Ghana’s biggest law firms Bentsi-Enchill, Letsa and Ankomah, told the BBC the investigation was a good opportunity to root out corruption.
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Anas Aremeyaw, an investigative journalist with Crusading Guide, a Ghanaian newspaper, released the video last week and petitioned President John Mahama and Georgina Wood, the country’s chief justice, to remove the judges from office.
A judicial official said one of the judges involved in the allegations had turned in his resignation on Tuesday.
All the 180 Judicial Service officials who have been implicated in the bribery scandal that has rocked the Judiciary have been interdicted by the Chief Justice, Graphic Online has gathered.
Twenty-two circuit judges and magistrates were suspended in Ghana Thursday over corruption allegations after an undercover journalist claimed he had caught them on film taking bribes.
The judicial council has already suspended 11 high court judges [list, GhanaWeb], and an expected 12 more will receive suspensions in the coming days.
The Judicial Council has had cause to dismiss some judges in recent years over such corrupt practices.
“The Council absolutely reckons that the notion, or actuality of corruption within the Judiciary undermines confidence within the establishment and can’t be tolerated to proceed in any form, or type, therefore the necessity to act with utmost dispatch”, it stated. Justice Obimpeh is now on admission at the Nyaho Clinic in Accra.
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Meanwhile, the following Judges whose names are listed below, are reported to have been captured in both the video and audio recordings.
