GBADEGBE JSC:
The action herein concerns the announcement by the first defendant of road user charges on some of the roads leading into and outside its campus effective 01 February 2014. The plaintiff, a student of the University of Ghana (1st defendant herein), caused the instant action to issue claiming among others a declaration that the said charges amount to the imposition and or levying of taxation contrary to the provisions of article 174(1) of the 1992 Constitution and therefore unconstitutional for which reason we are invited in the exercise of our exclusive jurisdiction to declare same as null and void. The parties to the action herein have in compliance with the rules of practice and procedure of this court filed their respective statements of caseas well as the memorandum of issues for our consideration. At the last adjourned hearing, in view of the point raised by the first defendant regarding the propriety of the invocation of our original jurisdiction, we t…