EDUSEI vs. ATTORNEY-GENERAL & ANOTHER [1996]DLSC16013

Date	1996-02-13
Suit No.	[1996-97] SCGLR
Citation No.	[1996]DLSC16013

AMUA-SEKYI JSC

CHARLES HAYFRON-BENJAMIN JSC

AMPIAH JSC

KPEGAH JSC

ADJABENG JSC

NANA AKUFO-ADDO WITH HIM AKOTO AMPAW FOR PLAINTIFF

HON DR OBED ASAMOAH AG ATTORNEY-GENERAL WITH

HIM HON MARTIN AMID 11 DEPUTY ATTORNEY-GENERAL

AND MRS ADUSA-AMANKWA CHIEF STATE ATTORNEY FOR DEFENDANTS

[1996]DLSC16013
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EDUSEI<o:p></o:p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:107%;border:none;
mso-border-top-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 0in 25.0pt 0in">In or about January 1984, certain
persons, among them the plaintiff, who were said to be engaged in espionage activities on behalf of the Government of the United States were permitted to leave Ghana under an agreement between
the Governments of Ghana and the United States. In return, the Government of the United States
permitted one Soussoudis, who had been convicted in the United States of engaging in espionage activities on behalf of the Government of Ghana, to leave the United States. While he lived in Ghana, the plaintiff,
who claims to be a citizen of Ghana by birth, held a
Ghana passport. The passport was
taken from him by the security agencies some time before he left the country. The plaintiff now lives in the United
States of America.
He says he wants
to return home. As a first step, his legal advisers wrote to the Minister for
Foreign Affairs asking that the passport of their client be restored to him to enable
him apply for a new one. The Minister, who also happens to be the Ag Attorney-General and first
defendant in this suit, admits that he received
the letter. He did not reply
to it. He