Solomon Owusu, a senior Communicator for the Movement for Change, has confidently stated that those born in the 1940s are Ghana’s problem.
According to Solomon Owusu, who refers to those born in the 1940s as baby boomers, they had everything cheaply.
Solomon Owusu made these remarks while reacting to Sophia Akuffo’s remarks on the removal of Getrude Torkornoo as Chief Justice.
He fingered out Sophia Akuffo as part of a generation that enjoyed every privilege but failed to build a sustainable system for the next generation.
Speaking in an interview on GHOne TV, Solomon Owusu stated, “As for Sophia Akuffo, I’ve said the baby boomers in this country are a problem. You know the baby boomers?
“Those who were born in the 1940s. They had everything cheap, cheap, cheap. At the university, they would go on a demonstration because they were having too much chicken.
“They had everything cheap, but they have destroyed the system”.
He further accused of buying Sophia Akufo of buying state land at Cantonments for 7000 cedis.
Solomon Owusu, “If the former Chief Justice wants me to take her seriously and to see her as an honest person, she must return the land that she bought for 7,000 cedis at Cantonments. I’m scandalised. Who buys land at 7,000 and claims that she’s honest?”
“No, they should leave the youth — those of us that have destroyed our lives — to be living sheepishly, to go away in peace.”
Solomon Owusu further quizzed the former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo on what is so trivial about Getrude Torkornoo travelling with her family and giving them per diem.
According to Solomon Owusu, it is unacceptable for someone of Sophia Akuffo’s stature to downplay such matters.
He added, “She didn’t have basis for what she said. You, on the matter of procurement alone, she single-handedly determined the Prime Minister’s case using the same Article 146.
And in 2017, somewhere in July, she, through the Judicial Secretary, warned every Ghanaian that she wouldn’t dare comment about what the committee was doing about Charlotte Osei’s case—we would all be in prison.
This former Chief Justice told us that.”
He added, “What is so trivial about travelling with your husband and daughter when they are not supposed to be part of it, and giving them per diem?
“You and I are tax revenue. Someone who is supposed to know does this, and you say, oh, it’s trivial. What are you talking about?”
Mr Owusu called on state authorities to investigate Akuffo’s tenure as Chief Justice, suggesting that she could have done worse while she was in office if she found the removal of the Chief Justice trivial.
“I will call on the State Security Agencies to begin to go and investigate her time as the Chief Justice. Because it means she did worse if she finds all these things are trivialities. It’s a serious crime. If you are the Chief Justice, someone that can imprison someone, your bar is so high”, he added.
His comment comes following Sophia Akuffo’s remarks in an interview, condemning President John Mahama’s removal of the former Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo.
According to Sophia Akuffo, the allegation that led to the removal of the Chief Justice is not strong enough to justify her dismissal.
In an interview with TV3, September 2, Sophia Akuffo stated, “The [allegations] lack the gravity that will lead to a grave outcome such as the removal of the head of an institution of justice.”
Sophia Akuffo further urged Gertrude Torkornoo to take heart, as God may have bigger, better, and greater things planned for her.
Madam Sophia Akuffo added, “She should take heart. That God sees, and sometimes when you go through certain things which you think have brought you to the end or to your knees or something like that, that could be far from the truth”.
“There could be bigger, better and greater needs that the Lord has in store. That is what I will tell her, and that is what I will send to her as a text message.”
“When you are a believer, things happen today, yes, they have happened, so look to God and move on, and you will allow God to manage the rest”, she added.
Sophia Akuffo further condemned the proceedings that led to President John Dramani Mahama removing the Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo.
According to Sophia Akuffo, Chief Justice Gertrude Torkonoo was not given a fair hearing.
Sophia Akuffo described the proceedings as a “rigmarole” that set a dangerous precedent for Ghana’s judiciary.
The former Chief Justice added, “She did not get a fair trial. Even though it is not a trial strictly speaking, it was handled as though it were a treason trial”.
“They lack the gravity that will lead to a grave outcome such as the removal of the head of an institution of justice”.
The former Chief Justice’s remarks echo the same feelings Chief Justice Torkonoo herself had earlier labelled as cruel and unconstitutional.
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If former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo wants me to see her as an honest person, she must return the land she bought for ₵7,000 at Cantonments… – Solomon Owusu (Spokesperson, Movement for Change)#GHOneNews #EIBNetwork#GHOneTV #NewsAlert#GHToday pic.twitter.com/56b7oBI1cx
— GHOne TV (@ghonetv) September 4, 2025