Georgina Theodora Wood JSC OSG (née Lutterodt; born 8 June 1947) is a Ghanaian former judge and a former police prosecution officer.
[3] Wood worked with the Ghana Police Service as a deputy superintendent and public prosecutor for three years.
[3] The Georgina Wood committee was set up on 4 July 2006 to investigate the disappearance from a shipping vessel MV Benjamin of 77 packets of cocaine on 26 April 2006.
[10] She serves on the board of the Global Justice Center, an international human rights law organization based in New York City.
[12] On Thursday 7 October 2010, Wood was among 15 people named by the Committee for Joint Action as a beneficiary of allegedly illegal land allocation by the former NPP government.
In an official statement, the committee claimed:[13] [...] the Chief Justice who should know the law, threw away any sense of integrity and decency and went for the land-grab.
It is a travesty that this same person, the Chief Justice, is the one who is appointing judges to sit on cases to decide on whether the land-grab is lawful or not.According to Accra urban redevelopment researcher Tom Gillespie:[14] According to official policy, plots would be openly advertised and allocated on the basis of competitive bids to ensure value for money for the public.
The public bidding process was disregarded and valuable plots were allocated to powerful government supporters at below-market prices.