The law platform is reporting that the Ghana Immigration Service has been slapped with a cumulative amount of GH¢910,000.
The amount, according to the news platform, is damages and loss of earnings for preventing one Kwabena Baffour Asare from flying to Germany on the 18th day of June 2022.
The High Court presided over by Ayitey Armah-Tetteh J. said the Immigration Service’s prevention of the plaintiff in the matter breached his freedom of movement from Ghana and movement in Ghana.
The court held that he was wrongfully arrested and detained on the 17th day of June 2022, on grounds of being on a stop list of the Ghana Police Service.
In upholding the arguments of the lawyer for the Plaintiff, Reindorf Twumasi Ankrah, the court held that the detention and preventing of the plaintiff for the second day of his attempt to travel to Germany amounted to negligence on the part of the Ghana Immigration Service.
His Lordship Armah-Tetteh entered judgment for the Plaintiff as follows:
1. General damages of Ghs650,000.00 for negligence and unjustifiable violation of Plaintiffs.
2. Loss of earnings of Ghs250,000.00
3. Special damages of Ghs10,000.00
4. Costs of Ghs50,000.00 in favour of Plaintiff.
