Supreme Court Rules – Mahama’s Agreement To Receive Gitmo 2 Was Unconstitutional!

The Supreme Court has ruled that the decision of ex-President John Dramani Mahama to receive the so-called Gitmo 2 into the country was unconstitutional.

In a verdict delivered Thursday, the country’s highest court, by a 6-1 decision, ruled the agreement with the US gov’t contravened Article 75 of the 1992 constitution.

The article calls for Parliament to ratify any international agreement the country enters into.

The bench has therefore ordered government to bring the agreement within the next three months to Parliament to be ratified in accordance with the constitutional provision.

Muhammed Al-Dhuby and Muhammed Bin-Atef, two Yemeni nationals, were received into Ghana in 2016 by the then NDC government at the behest of the then US government. The pair had been inmates at the US terrorist holding cell in Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

The decision by government was challenged in court by two Ghanaians – Margaret Bamfo and Henry Nana Boakye – who have now won this decision.