High Court sets March 28 to rule on Sosu’s interlocutory injunction against IGP
This comes after both parties filed all processes before the court as directed.
The Human Rights Division of the Accra High Court has set March 28, 2022, to rule on an interlocutory injunction filed by Member of Parliament for Madina, Francis Xavier Sosu against the Inspector General of Police (IGP).
This comes after both parties filed all processes before the court as directed.
The court presided over by Her Ladyship Justice Barbara N. Tetteh-Charway said she will rule on the motion for injunction.
Background
Mr. Francis Xavier Sosu on November 17, 2021, filed an action at the High Court against the Inspector General of Police.
Per his suit, the MP describes the two attempts by the Ghana Police Service to arrest him as a violation of his human rights as a Ghanaian against unlawful arrest.
“That I verily believe that the Respondent’s decision to arrest me in both their 1st and 2nd attempts violated my rights as a Ghanaian against unlawful arrest,” the suit indicates in part.
The MP however admit that the immunity provision in Article 117 and 118 are not absolute as well as the power of the Police Service to arrest and commence criminal proceedings against any citizen of Ghana.
Furthermore, Hon Sosu mentions that he has the right to exercise his right under Article 33 of the Constitution, 1992 for protection of those rights where the basis of the said arrest and prosecution are false, spurious, and malicious.
Additionally, he noted that the exercise of the Administrative functions of the Police Service to arrest and investigate and prosecute him fell short of the high standards of fairness and reasonableness, and compliance as provided under Article 23 of the Constitution, 1992.
Hon Sosu also indicates that since the beginning of the said arbitrary and unlawful conduct by the Police, he has suffered priceless losses which have affected his life; emotional and psychological trauma; His wife and children, and parents have been seriously traumatized; and his work as an MP has been greatly affected.
