The Court of Appeal has upheld the High Court’s ruling dismissing an application filed by Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, and three others.
The Court of Appeal panel of three judges held that the applicants failed to demonstrate any exceptional circumstances to warrant granting their request, which lacked merit.
The background to the case is that on July 3 of the previous legal year, the High Court, presided over by Justice John Nyante Nyadu, dismissed an application filed by Adu-Boahene and the other accused persons.
The application sought access to documents including ones dating as far back as 1992. In their application, filed on June 23, the accused persons, through their lawyers, requested that the Attorney General be ordered to serve them with certain disclosed documents.
Specifically, they sought “a further order that the Attorney-General should make full disclosure and produce for inspection and copying the various National Security Coordinators’ special operations accounts.”
Dissatisfied with the High Court’s decision, the accused persons and their lawyers filed an appeal against the ruling.
However, the Court of Appeal panel of three judges, after hearing submissions, dismissed the application as lacking merit.
Story by: Murtala Inusah/Accra
