192046 SGT INUSAH KARIM vs. THE REPUBLIC [2021]DLCA11028

Date	2021-12-08
Suit No.	SUIT NO. CMA/2/2021
Citation No.	[2021]DLCA11028

ADJEI JA.

OWUSU-OFORI J.

ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.) J.

FRANCIS XAVIER KOJO SOSU FOR APPELLANT ABSENT

COLONEL CHARLES GBEKLE FOR RESPONDENT

[2021]DLCA11028
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" >192046 SGT INUSAH KARIM<o:p></o:p>vs.<o:p></o:p>THE REPUBLIC<o:p></o:p>[COURT OF APPEAL,
ACCRA]<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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NO. CMA/2/2021 &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:
8TH DECEMBER, 2021<o:p></o:p>

</div>COUNSEL<o:p></o:p>FRANCIS
XAVIER KOJO SOSU FOR APPELLANT ABSENT<o:p></o:p><div style="border-top: none; border-right: none; border-left: none; border-image: initial; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; padding: 0cm 0cm 1pt;">

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CHARLES GBEKLE FOR RESPONDENT<o:p></o:p>

</div>CORAM:&nbsp;&nbsp;
<o:p></o:p>ADJEI
JA., OWUSU-OFORI J., ASARE-BOTWE (MRS.) J.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <o:p></o:p><div style="border-top-width: 1.5pt; border-top-color: windowtext; border-left: none; border-bottom-width: 1.5pt; border-bottom-color: windowtext; border-right: none; padding: 1pt 0cm;">

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</div>&nbsp;OWUSU-OFORI,J:<o:p></o:p>The Appellant herein Sgt. Karim Inusah
was convicted and sentenced to dismissal from the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) by a
Court Martial and it is on this conviction and sentence that he is inviting
this court to reverse on the grounds contained in the notice of Appeal. <o:p></o:p>These are the brief facts of the case
which resulted in the dismissal of the Appellant from the Ghana Armed Forces
(GAF).<o:p></o:p>BRIEF
FACTS OF THE CASE<o:p></o:p>The facts are that on Wednesday the 22nd
day of July 2015, the 37 Military Hospital published in its part one orders
serial 93 list of solders who had been allocated accommodation in the various
quarters.&nbsp; SNCO’s Block D Room 1 was
allocated to S/Sgt. Issifu Razak, when he went to take over his room, the
Appellant had already moved into the accommodation when the Appellant was asked
to vacate the room he refused and said it was allocated to him by Major Tandoh
who insisted he did not remember doing so. <o:p></o:p>Several orders from the Command Sergeant
Major (PW3 during the Court Martial trial) and other soldiers senior to the
Appellant failed to yield results.&nbsp; The Command
Sergeant Major again ordered him to move out by a stated time and when again he
refused he ordered him to be evicted.&nbsp; In
the course of undertaking the eviction, the Appellant resisted and in the
process bit the left arm of S/Sgt Alandu Emmanuel (PW2 during the Court Martial
trial).&nbsp; Investigations were ordered to
unravel the circumstances that led to the biting of S/Sgt Alandu.&nbsp; The Appellant was subsequently arraigned for
trial summarily for offences flowing from his refusal to vacate the
accommodation.&nbsp; The Appellant at the
summary trial opted to be tried by a Court Martial. <o:p></o:p>The Appellant was on the 13th
October 2016 convicted by the Court Martial and sentenced to dismissal from the
Ghana Armed Forces.&nbsp; The conviction and
sentences were subsequently approved by the convening authority pursuant to the
Armed Forces Regulations. <o:p></o:p>The instant appeal is against the Ghana
Armed Forces inviting the Court to overturn the decision of the Court Martial convicting
the Appellant.<o:p></o:p>Section 90 of the Armed Forces Act,
1962 (ACT 105) set up the Court Martial Appeal court and confers jurisdiction
on it to determine and hear appeal referred to it from the decisions of a Court
Martial whether general or disciplinary.<o:p></o:p>Section 91 of the Act also provides
that the Court Martial Appeal Court’s jurisdiction is to determine appeals from
the Court Martial in respect of:<o:p></o:p>a)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
legality of a finding or all of the findings<o:p></o:p>b)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
The
legality of the whole or a part of the sentence or <o:p></o:p>