RULING
DERY, J.
On 16th June 2009, the applicant, Mr. Akwasi Osei – Adjei, the immediate past Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional Integration of the Republic of Ghana, brought an application to this court against the respondents, the Attorney-General and the Director of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) seeking the following reliefs:
i) a declaration that the seizure of the applicant’s Republic of Ghana passport and the continued detention of same by the BNI are a gross infringement on the applicant’s fundamental human right to freedom of movement under the Constitution, 1992;
ii) an order directed at the BNI to release the applicant’s passport to him unconditionally;
iii) an order of prohibition directed at the Attorney-General and the Director, BNI from any further abuse or curtailment of the applicant’s right to freedom of movement;
iv) any other order or orders as this court may seem meet.
The applicant supported his application with a twenty-four paragraphs affidavit in w…