Coverage assume tank IMANI Centre for Coverage and Schooling and safety knowledgeable Professor Kwesi Aning have filed an interlocutory injunction at the Supreme Court to restrain the President from removing the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) and different safety company heads.
The swimsuit, filed on Thursday, 11 March, references a pending case filed in March 2024 that challenges the constitutionality of such dismissals by the President. The Apex Courtroom is ready to rule on the matter in Might 2025.
Of their writ, the candidates argue that dismissing the heads of these security agencies—together with the Police, Nationwide Hearth Service, Immigration, and Prisons—earlier than the courtroom’s remaining ruling could be unfair.
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This growth follows widespread experiences that the President intends to take away the Inspector-Normal of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, together with different safety heads.
Excerpts of the swimsuit learn:
That within the very unlucky occasion that the Defendant/Respondent, its principals, together with His Excellency the President of the Republic, is allowed to take away all or any of those heads, the extant swimsuit might be rendered worthless, and any victory pyrrhic.
The swimsuit additional states:
Whereas recognising that the substantive swimsuit isn’t one to pursue private pursuits, it can’t be significantly challenged that the workplaces being sought for defense are presently occupied by sure individuals who’re direct beneficiaries of this constitutional matter.
That the Defendant suffers no damage ought to the applying be granted, particularly because the resolution isn’t removed from being delivered; and extra so, since, within the occasion the Plaintiffs don’t emerge victorious within the remaining motion, the Government is not going to be proscribed from exercising its proper to take away any of those heads.
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The candidates, subsequently, pray the courtroom to grant the injunction.
