[2021]DLHC10759 • July 22, 2021 • High Court
FRANCIS KWARTENG ARTHUR vs. GHANA TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY LIMITED AND 4 OTHERS
Applicant, a subscriber to telecommunication services, challenged the President's Executive Instrument E.I. 63, which directed telecommunication companies to provide personal subscriber information for COVID-19 contact tracing. Applicant contended that the directive and its implementation violated his fundamental rights to privacy, administrative justice, and equality, particularly objecting to the collection and disclosure of mobile money transaction data and other personal information without consent or proper legal procedure.
read moreThe Applicant, Francis Kwarteng Arthur, a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Ghana filed a Motion on Notice on 6th April, 2020 for an Order of Interlocutory Injunction and on the 30th July, 2020 by an Amended Originating Motion with leave of the Court dated 23 rd July, 2020 under Order 67 of CI 47 and the inherent jurisdiction of the High Court, prayed for the following reliefs: a. A declaration That by procuring or causing the 3 rd Respondent, the 4th Respondent or another person to procure the Applicant's personal information from the 1 st Respondent or the 2 nd Respondent without following laid down law or procedure or without the Applicant's consent, the President and the Government have violated, are violating or are likely to violate the Applicants fundamental human rights to administrative justice, to privacy or to equality or non-discrimination: That by implementing or intending to implement the President's directive in E.1 63 to procure the Applicants' per...