ISAAC ARYEE ARYEEQUAYE V. THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL, GHANA PRISONS SERVICE AND THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL

ADUAMA OSEI

In this judgment, the Plaintiff/Respondent will be called “the Plaintiff”, and the Defendants/Appellants will be called “the Defendants”.

By his writ of summons issued in the High Court, Accra, on the 27th of June, 2007, the Plaintiff sought against the Defendants a declaration that “since the Minister for Interior has not complied with section 19 sub section 3 of the Prison Service Act, 1972 the service enquiry held at the Wa Central Prisons in which plaintiff was found guilty and later dismissed is null and void and of no legal effect whatsoever”. The Plaintiff sought a further declaration that “since the plaintiff did not plead guilty to count 3, it was wrong for the panel to have stated in the record of proceedings that the plaintiff pleaded guilty”. This was in view of the Plaintiff’s contention in the action that even though he did not plead guilty to count 3 during the service enquiry, the panel that carried out the enquiry wrongly recorded him as having done so. Othe…