MEKKAOUI
V.
MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

(1980) JELR 65442 (SC)

Supreme Court · 26 Jun 1980 · Ghana
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[1980] GLR 664

CORAM

SOWAH JSC,ARCHER JSC,CHARLES CRABBE JSC,ADADE JSC,TAYLOR J.S.C.

Ratio Decidendi

Core Terms ^Beta

decree

september

plaintiff

armed forces revolutionary council

date of commencement

chairman of the armed forces revolutionary council

immediate effect

citizen of ghana

draft decree

chairman of the a.f.r.c.

commencement date

ghana

attorney-general’s office

citizenship of ghana

transitional provisions of the constitution

chief parliamentary draftsman

general manager

high court of justice

said a.f.r.c.d.

signed decree

activities of any such person

contravention of the provisions of chapters

cross-examination

extension of the time

first defendant

first proof of the ghana nationality

following directive

government of ghana

important difference

judicial order of the high court of justice

legal authority

legislative act of the a.f.r.c.

legislative judgment

mr. george thompson

nec magistratum

nec matrem

office of the said general manager

officers of the ghana police force

principal state attorney

public announcement

publication of the decree

purpose of a cross-examination

purposes of article

purposes of this case

q. why

signature of the chairman of the a.f.r.c.

status of citizens

terms of the ghana nationality act

valid legislative act of the a.f.r.c.

view of the importance of that evidence

CHARLES CRABBE J.S.C.

(The judgment of his lordship was read by Archer J.S.C.). The plaintiff was a Lebanese by birth. He was born on 29 October 1930, at Tripoli, in the Lebanon. He has been resident in Ghana for the past 24 years. He came to the Gold Coast in 1956. In June 1976, he lawfully acquired citizenship of Ghana by naturalisation. The naturalisation was acquired under the terms of the Ghana Nationality Act, 1971 (Act 361). This was after the plaintiff had necessarily renounced his Lebanese nationality by birth. He claims that he thus acquired the protection and rights conferred by the Act, as well as by treaties governing the status of citizens and naturalised persons to which the Government of Ghana is a party.

On or about 3 January 1980, a public announcement, purporting to emanate from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was read on Radio Ghana. Certain persons, including the plaintiff, were requested to report by 14 January 1980, to the Chief Immigration Officer of the Minist…

MEKKAOUI V. MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS

MEKKAOUI
V.
MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS