JUDGMENT
SOPHIA AKUFFO JSC delivered ruling of the court, giving the reasons for the court's decision overruling the preliminary objection by the first defendant to the plaintiffs action.
By a writ filed on 23 December 2005, the plaintiff in his capacity as a Ghanaian citizen, commenced an action, invoking the original jurisdiction of this court against the first defendant, Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), and the second defendant, the Attorney-General, for the following reliefs:
"(1) A declaration that:
(a) the act or practice of the first defendant in making and/or causing some citizens of Ghana to carry human excreta ... in pans on their heads is an affront to the dignity of such persons in particular and Ghanaians as a whole;
(b) the act...is cruel, inhuman and degrading and also detracts from the dignity and worth of such people in particular and Ghanaians as a whole;
(c) the practice or act is inconsistent with and in contravention of article 15(1) and (2) of the 1992 Constitution…