[ 2017-05-12 ]

Georgina Theodora Wood, Chief Justice

CJ Georgina Wood to join Council of State under Akufo-Addo
Ghana’s Chief Justice, Justice Georgina Theodora
Wood, who retires from the judiciary in June this
year, is to be appointed to the Council of State,
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has
revealed.

Her appointment to the Council will be in line
with a provision of Ghana’s 1992 Constitution,
which requires a former Chief Justice to be
included in the 25-membership of the Council.

Article 89(2)(i) of the Constitution states there
shall be a Council of State which shall consist of
“one person who has previously held the office
of Chief Justice”.

In view of the absence of a living former Chief
Justice, Ghana’s Council of State has at least
in the past decade, not had the 25 membership as
required by the Constitution “to counsel the
President in the performance of his functions”.


A 24-membership Council made up of 10 regional
elected representatives and 14 others appointed by
the President, was on February 25, 2017 sworn into
office by Nana Akufo-Addo.

Council of State awaits Justice G. T. Wood

Immediately after June 8, 2017 when Justice
Georgina Wood retires, she will be sworn in as the
25th member of the Council of State.

President Akufo-Addo in announcing Justice Sophia
Akuffo as a successor to Justice Wood Friday said
although the latter is retiring as the head of
Ghana’s judiciary, “her public service will
not be over as her place on the Council of State
awaits her”.

He described the tenure and career of Justice Wood
as “extraordinary, and I pay warm tribute to her
distinguished service to our nation”.

Source - 3news.com

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