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THE REPUBLIC V. HIGH COURT (COMM COURT 7), ACCRA EX PARTE: MINISTRY OF INTERIOR & ORS

(2021) JELR 109768 (SC)

Supreme Court  •  J5/01/2022  •  15 Dec 2021  •  Ghana

Coram
DOTSE (PRESIDING) KOTEY JSC OWUSU (MS.) JSC TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC PROF. MENSA-BONSU (MRS.) JSC

Judgement

TORKORNOO (MRS.) JSC:-

In one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s satirical comedy productions in the 1880’s called The Mikado, there is a character called Koko who lived in the Japanese town Titipu. He was condemned to death for flirting at a time that the Mikado of Japan had decreed flirting to be a crime punishable by decapitation. In order to frustrate the implementation of the law, the people of Titipu appointed Koko to the office of the Lord High Executioner and pushed Koko’s name to the top of the list of those to be executed for flirting. This resulted in a situation where Koko had to put his head on the chopping board, get up and take up the axe to decapitate his own head, and finding that his head is not there, go through the whole routine again. Suffice it to say that the execution was frustrated time and again. It is this complexity of roles resulting in multiple appearances in different capacities that the Attorney General of Ghana and Minister of Justice has found himself in, in th…

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