CHARLES CRABBE J.A.: This case, civil appeal No. 104/78 began its course in these courts as an application for an order for:
“a writ of habeas corpus ad subjuciendum to issue directed to the Attorney-General and the Assistant Director, Ghana Prisons Service, Ho, to have the bodies of Quaye Mensah and Davis Kwakye before the High Court, Ho, to undergo and receive all and singular such matters and things as [that] court shall there and then consider concerning [the two persons].”
In the affidavit supporting the application for the writ it is stated:
“That the applicants were variously arrested between 5 to 14 April 1978. That they have since their arrest been kept in prison for reasons which have not been sufficiently disclosed. That presently, the applicants namely Quaye Mensah and Davis Kwakye are being kept at the Ho Prisons. That to the best of my information it is being alleged that the applicants are being kept in prison for their own safety. That the lives of the applicants have nev…