Twenty-two judges and magistrates in Ghana have been suspended over allegations of corruption.
They affected judicial officers are to remain suspended pending the outcome of a disciplinary inquiry ordered by Chief Justice GEORGINA THEODORA WOOD.
The judicial officers are among thirty-four in all who were indicted in an undercover investigation carried out by a popular Ghanaian journalist.
They are alleged to have accepted bribes and extorted, in the biggest corruption scandal to hit the Ghanaian judiciary.
The journalist, ANAS AREMEYAW ANAS said he had nearly 500 hours of video evidence on tape, covering two years of investigations, which had been handed over to the chief justice.
Twenty-two judges and magistrates in Ghana have been suspended over allegations of corruption.
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