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JUDGMENT
ADJEI, JSC:
The Plaintiff calls upon this court to interpret Article 142 of the constitution of Ghana, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284) which mandate the courts to suspend the voting rights of convicts of those offences which are unconstitutional.
The case is of constitutional importance by the fact that it seeks to challenge the Representation of the People Act, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284) for its propensity of denying some citizens of Ghana of their fundamental human rights from being registered as voters or voting at an election and which said rights have been given constitutional authorization by the Constitution of Ghana, without providing for any exception and would require the striking out of some provisions of P.N.D.C.L. 284 should the action succeed.
The Plaintiff, who alleges that some provisions of the Representation of the People Act, 1992 (P.N.D.C.L. 284) are unconstitutional, has invoked the original jurisdiction of the Supreme Court in his capacity as a citizen of Ghana to make a …