Cyber Bullying: Installing App to monitor partner’s infidelity breach of privacy-Samson Lardy

“Adultery is a moral issue and not a crime. One can therefore not breach a partner’s privacy to monitor their fidelity or otherwise.

I do not know anywhere in the world where adultery is a crime.”

These are the views of a private legal practitioner, Samson Lardy Anyenini on whether an app installed by a partner to monitor the chat of a cheating partner is legal.

Speaking on Showbiz A-Z last Saturday on JoyFM, the legal Practitioner noted that a partner has no right to breach the other’s privacy just because he/she is suspected of cheating.

He advised partners to rather deal with adultery at the level of the relationship.

“If you are married under the ordinance, then you are supposed to stick to one wife. Adultery is not a crime in Ghana. I do not know of anywhere in the world where adultery is a crime. It is a moral issue. So you have to deal with it at the level of the relationship.

Even though adultery is ground or a behavior a partner should not put up with and therefore makes it easy for one to seek a divorce. However, if you are married customarily, which is a potentially polygamous marriage, what that means is that you are entitled to as many women or wives as you please and you won’t get married to a woman unless you have dated her so it is not enough to say something is cheating on you, so you have to breach their privacy,” he said.

Additionally, he noted that breaching a person’s privacy for the purposes of making your case where they are not committing a crime will not be admitted in evidence per a Supreme Court declaration.