THE REPUBLIC vs. SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL INSURANCE TRUSTAND ATTORNEY GENERAL, EX-PARTE ERNEST THOMPSON [2019]DLHC9045

THE REPUBLIC vs. SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL INSURANCE TRUSTAND ATTORNEY GENERA... [2019]DLHC9045

Date	2019-10-16
Suit No.	SUIT NO. GJ/0793/19
Citation No.	[2019]DLHC9045

HER LADYSHIP JUSTICE JENNIFER A. DADZIE

SAMUEL CODJOE WITH JOHNSON NORMESINU (BEING LED BY ABEDNEGO TETTEH MENSAH) OF LAW TRUST COMPANY ACCRA FOR APPLICANT

GLORIA COFIE WITH SHELLY OTU OF BENTSI-ENCHILL LETSA & ANKOMAH ACCRA FOR 1ST RESPONDENT

YVONNE ATAKORA OBUOBISSA DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS

WITH SENIOR STATE ATTORNEYS STELLA OHENE-APPIAH RICHARD GYAMBIBI

AND SEFAKOR BATSE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT ACCRA FOR 2ND RESPONDENT

[2019]DLHC9045
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>SOCIAL SECURITY AND NATIONAL INSURANCE TRUST (1ST RESPONDENT) AND
ATTORNEY GENERAL (2ND RESPONDENT), EX-PARTE ERNEST THOMPSON (APPLICANT)<o:p></o:p>[HIGH COURT, (COMMERCIAL
DIVISION) ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">SUIT NO. GJ/0793/19&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;DATE:
16TH OCTOBER 2019<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL:<o:p></o:p>SAMUEL CODJOE WITH JOHNSON NORMESINU (BEING LED BY
ABEDNEGO TETTEH MENSAH) OF LAW TRUST COMPANY, ACCRA, FOR APPLICANT<o:p></o:p>GLORIA COFIE WITH SHELLY OTU OF BENTSI-ENCHILL, LETSA
&amp; ANKOMAH, ACCRA, FOR 1ST RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:
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solid windowtext 1.5pt;padding:0cm;mso-padding-alt:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm">YVONNE ATAKORA OBUOBISSA, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC
PROSECUTIONS, WITH SENIOR STATE ATTORNEYS, STELLA OHENE-APPIAH, RICHARD
GYAMBIBI, AND SEFAKOR BATSE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL’S DEPARTMENT, ACCRA, FOR 2ND
RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:<o:p></o:p>HER LADYSHIP, JUSTICE JENNIFER A. DADZIE<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border-top:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">The 1st
Respondent is a statutory public body charged by law to administer the National
Pension Scheme. The 2nd Respondent is a Minister of State and the
principal legal adviser to the Government. The Applicant, until January 20,
2017, was the Director General of the 1st Respondent.&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">It has been appropriately
held by the Supreme Court per Adinyira, JSC in the case of R v High Court (Land Division) Accra;
Ex-parte Alhassan Ltd (Thaddeus Sory – Interested Party) (2011) SCGLR 478 @
484 that it is a basic principle of common law that Certiorari and
Prohibition would be automatically granted to quash a judgment and to prevent a
biased judge from hearing a suit upon satisfactory proof of breach of any
principles of the rules of natural justice.&nbsp;
The application before me seeks to invoke the supervisory jurisdiction
of this court for judicial review in the nature of Certiorari to quash certain
reports generated by the 1st Respondent and an Order of Prohibitory
Injunction restraining 1st and 2nd Respondents from
presenting, circulating, tendering, acting and or using the said reports.<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Briefly, the facts of the
case as can be gleaned from the records are that the 1st Respondent,
in May 2017 conducted an investigation they titled, “Special Audit Report on the Operational Business Suite
(OBS) Project for the period November 2012 - May, 2017” <span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,serif;
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;
mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">on the contract awarded to a
consortium to develop and implement an information technology solution known as
the OBS Project for use in its departments.&nbsp;
The aim of the investigation was to confirm whether all due processes
were followed in the award of the contract and also to ascertain whether the 1st
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