Court dismisses application against Deputy IGP
The High Court in Accra has dismissed an application by a lecturer seeking to prohibit COP Christian Tetteh Yohuno from performing his role as Deputy Inspector General of Police (IGP) in charge of operations.
Emmanuel Felix Amantey had alleged that the police council and the presidency acted in excess of their powers when the two offices appointed a deputy IGP in charge of operations.
According to him, not only is the constitution and the Ghana Police Service ACT silent on such a role, but the only legal document that anticipates such an office is the police service regulation which does not make room for a deputy in charge of operations.
He thus filed the judicial review application accusing the president and the police council of perpetrating an illegality.
But Justice Richard Apietu in delivering his ruling on the matter indicated that the supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court was not properly invoked.
He explained that while such powers of the court are concerned with adjudicatory functions exercised by lower adjudicating bodies, the President and the Police Council are not lower adjudicating bodies.
Justice Apietu further argued that the President and the Police Council were exercising administrative powers.
He thus dismissed the application.
Source: citinewsroom
