Statement of Facts: Mohammed Addul Rahim Baba Salifa, the applicant, was sent to live with a guardian in Guinea for schooling in 1965. The applicant suffered ill-treatment from his guardian and escaped to Sierra Leone. In Sierra Leone, he sought the assistance of the Ghana High Commissioner to help him return to his parents in […]
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Statement of Facts: Following the release of Mohammed Abdul Rahim Baba Salifa on the order of the High Court in the Ex Parte Salifa (no 1),[2] the Special Branch of the Police Service rearrested him. This time, he was accused of subversion. His father subsequently filed a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum and prayed
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Statement of Facts: The respondent, a Nigerian citizen resident in Ghana, was arrested by the army authorities on suspicion of having committed the offence of stealing. At the time, the army had the power to arrest and prosecute just like the police. The Attorney-General gave a written consent for the respondent to be detained for
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Re Akoto and 7 Others[1] Statement of Facts: The appellants were arrested and detained under the Preventive Detention Act, 1958 issued by the Governor General and signed by the minister of interior. They brought a case before the High Court for writs of Habeas Corpus, but the High Court refused them. They subsequently appealed against
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