MR. AYAMGA YAKUBU AKOLGO vs. INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE MR MOHAMMED AHMED ALHASSAN AND 3 OTHERS

This is a ruling in respect of an application for stay of execution of the ruling of the High Court delivered on the 5th of February 2015 by which an order was made for the payment of damages by the defendants/ appellants/applicants herein to the plaintiff/respondent/respondent (respondent). The application is supported by a twenty-one paragraph affidavit sworn to by one ACP/Mr Frank S. Kwofie, Director General Legal and Prosecution at the Ghana Police Service who alleged himself to have the consent and authority of the defendants/applicants to depose to matters that were within his personal knowledge, information and belief. Giving a background to the application, the said deponent recounted that the respondent, then Kwesimintsim District Police Commander, was instructed by the third applicant to make entries of occurrence in a book introduced by the third applicant then Western Regional Commander. This was part of a programme dubbed “Operation calm life” which was set in motion...