Ghana: Information on whether a section of the criminal code would be written on the wanted notice of someone charged with a crime
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 June 1993 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | GHA14303 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Ghana: Information on whether a section of the criminal code would be written on the wanted notice of someone charged with a crime, 1 June 1993, GHA14303, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aca370.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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In a telephone interview with the DIRB, a Ghanaian professor of economics at the American University in Washington, D.C. stated that, when the Provisional National Defence Council (PNDC) government came into power in 1981, the constitution was suspended and Public Tribunals replaced the legal system (2 June 1993). The PNDC government ruled by decree, and arrest warrants and/or wanted notices did not indicate numbers or sections of the penal code (Ibid.). Specific laws were issued stating that a person may be detained indefinetely without being advised of the code number pertaining to the nature of the offence with which the person in question is charged (Ibid.). This information is corroborated by information contained in the Question and Answer Series paper entitled Ghana: Constitutional Democracy and the Fourth Republic available at your Regional Documentation Centre.
References
American University in Washington, D.C., Department of Economics. 3 June 1993. Telephone Interview with a Professor.
Documentation, Information and Research Branch (DIRB), Immigration and Refugee Board, Ottawa. November 1992. Ghana: Constitutional Democracy and The Fourth Republic.