[1993]DLSC4364 • December 23, 1993 • High Court
NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY vs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL
The New Patriotic Party filed a writ invoking the court's original jurisdiction seeking declarations and orders to prohibit the Government of Ghana from publicly celebrating the overthrow of the legally constituted government on 31 December 1981, arguing such celebration and its financing from public funds contravened the 1992 Constitution, particularly articles 33, 4, 5, 6, 7, 351, and 41b.
read moreRULING: On the 21/12/93 the plaintiffs filed a writ in this court, invoking our original jurisdiction, asking for the following reliefs: “(1) A declaration that the public celebration of the overthrow of the legally constituted Government of Ghana on the 31 December, 1981, and the financing of such celebration from public funds is contrary to the letter and spirit of the 1992 Constitution and more particularly to articles 3(3), (4), (5), (6) and (7), and 35(1) and 41(b) thereof; (2) An order directing the Government of Ghana to cancel all preparations for the celebration of the overthrow of the legally constituted Government of Ghana on 31 December 1981, aforesaid and to refrain from carrying out any such celebration financed from public funds.” On the same date they filed an application for an interim injunction asking this court, in substance, to restrain the Government of Ghana from “all activities and preparations made or being made towards the celebration of the overthrow...