Former Finance Minister, Mr Ken Ofori-Atta, has sued two cops for main a workforce to raid his residence at Labone, in Accra.
He’s searching for a declaration by the Excessive Court docket that the defendants’ entry and conduct of search on his property at Labone, on February 11, 2025, was “trespassory and a breach of plaintiff’s proper to privateness.”
Court docket paperwork sighted by the Ghana Information Company on Wednesday, named the officers as Deputy Superintendent of Police, Bismark Boakye Ansah, and Chief Inspector Mensah, often known as Sir Mensah, the defendants within the matter.
“The plaintiff is, due to this fact, searching for damages for trespass and aggravated damages for breach of privateness. The Finance Minister is additional searching for perpetual injunction restraining the defendants, whether or not by themselves, brokers, assigns from coming into his property or additional breaching his privateness or repeating comparable or different conduct towards him,” in accordance with Mr Ofori-Atta’s assertion of declare.
He held that on February 11, 2025 the defendants, along with some 12 others (thereafter collectively known as the ‘raiding workforce’) with out prior discover to the consent of him and bereft of any authorized foundation, entered his correctty and performed an in depth search.
The “raiding workforce”, comprising the 2 defendants, 9 army personnel carried assault refiles, and different menacing looking people in plain garments, carried aspect arms on their our bodies, Mr Ofori-Atta mentioned.
He mentioned the “raiding workforce” didn’t produce any type of conflictrant nor point out to his home workers the idea for the search however warned them to desist from utilizing their cell phones all through the interval of “unauthorised operation.”
The plaintiff mentioned his home workers, with morbid worry, and intense trepidation, regarded on helplessly because the workforce searched the nooks and crannies of his property.
He mentioned a member of the workforce, who doubled as a videographer, filmed along with his mobile phone all areas within the property, together with bedrooms, residing areas, kitchen and different personal areas.
The plaintiff contended that his home workers had been traumatised and had sustained various degrees of extreme shock in consequence.
The previous Finance minister additional indicated that the raid on his property, which gained notoriety each domestically and internationally, had not solely uncovered him
to public ridicule, resentment and scorn, but additionally portrayed him as a felony.
“This has negatively impacted my hard-earned status within the worldwide group,” he mentioned.
The plaintiff mentioned his regulationyers had sought affirmation from the officer of the Nationwide Intelligence Bureau, the Chief of Defence Employees, and the Inspector Basic of Police whether or not or not the “raiding workforce” acted at their occasion and the aim thereof, however no response has been acquired. —GNA
