THE REPUBLIC V. THE HIGH COURT, ACCRA, EX PARTE; DANIEL YEVUGAH, ATTORNEY GENERAL & 3 ORS

RULING

ADJEI-FRIMPONG, JSC:

My Lords, in 1976, the then lawmakers passed a law, short-titled, Prohibited Organization Decree, S.M.C.D 20. Under Section 1 of the law, the following organizations were declared unlawful and prohibited;

“1. Prohibition of organization

1. The following organizations are hereby declared unlawful and prohibited, namely,

(a) The organization known variously as the Togoland Liberation Movement, “T.L.M.”, or “T.O.L.I.M.O”, the National Liberation Movement of Western Togoland or “N.LM.W.T.” and

(b) Any other organization, by whatever name it is called, whose objects include advocating and promoting the secession from the Republic of Ghana of the former British mandated territory of Togoland or part of the territory or the integration of that territory with a foreign territory.

(c) Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (b) of subsection (1), the President may, by executive instrument, declare an organization to be an organization to which the paragraph applie…