Court adjourns Cecilia Dapaah's injunction against OSP to Dec 5

An Accra High Court (Human Rights Division) has adjourned to December 5, to hear the interlocutory injunction application by former Sanitation Minister Cecilia Abena Dapaah, against the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).

The case adjournment follows the non-service of the OSP's affidavit in opposition on Ms. Dapaah or her lawyers. 

The former Minister's application seeks to restrain the OSP from taking further actions against her in respect of the continuous confiscation of her property and bank accounts. 

She argues that the action before the court is to prevent further “violation of her constitutionally guaranteed rights and render her application for judicial review otiose.”

“I am advised by Counsel that I have property and personal rights that need to be protected by this Honourable Court and that an order of injunction should be granted against the Respondent to prohibit and restrain him from further violating my rights until the determination of this matter," she said in court filings.

She's thus seeking the following reliefs;

(a). A declaration that the Respondent’s re-seizure of the money (initially seized from the Applicant’s home on 24/07/23) and re-freezing of Applicant’s bank accounts respectively on 5th September 2023 is unfair, unreasonable, capricious, arbitrary, and ultra vires the Respondent’s statutory powers under Act 959 relative to the constitutional provisions of Articles 23 and 296 of the Constitution, 1992.

(b) An Order for the Respondent to release the money reseized on 5th September 2023 to the Applicant and to unfreeze her bank accounts.

(c) An Order prohibiting the Respondent from continuing the investigation of the Applicant and her husband for corruption or corruption-related offences.

(d) Any such further or other Orders as this Honourable Court may deem fit.