Mr Alfred Kwabena Asiedu, who was dismissed from the Judicial Service by Chief Justice Gertrude Torkornoo due to inappropriate conduct in a divorce case, has refuted the claims made by the petitioner, denouncing them as false and products of an "illusioned imagination".

In response to the allegations, Judge Asiedu, in a letter to the Judicial Service, asserted that "every material allegation made in the petition is false and clearly made out [of] the figment of the illusioned imagination of the petitioner." 

He further denies any solicitation of money from the petitioner.

Judge Asiedu suggests that his investigations reveal a collaboration between the petitioner and a staff member from the Dambai District Court in formulating the petition against him. 

He expressed concern that the staff of the Complaint Unit played a role in facilitating the petition, emphasising discrepancies in the covering letter and dispatch of the petition based on his checks.

“My checks indicate that the Petitioner was aided by a staff of the Dambai District Court to make this petition and the staff of the Complaint Unit unfortunately played along with them. I have come to believe the result of my checks from how the covering letter on the Petition is couched and the Petition despatched to me.”

The petitioner, Singari Diana Sadia, wrote to the Chief Justice on January 16, accusing the judge of abuse of power, sexual exploitation, malicious prosecution, and impropriety.

She claimed the judge had an affair with her in exchange for a favourable ruling in a divorce case between her and her husband.

When things turned sour between them, she said the judge threatened to have her remanded for two weeks, jailed for 10 years and her five-year-old daughter taken from her custody.

Read the petition below: