Policy analyst Franklin Cudjoe has slammed a group of 11 West African nationals who have dragged the state to court over what they describe as unlawful detention.
“I hear 11 of the deportees West Africans we accepted to host here are threatening us with legal action for unlawful detention.
“Why didn’t [they] jump out of the plane when they were coming over?” he fumed in a post on his social media page.
Cudjoe did not mince words as he mocked the legal challenge. “Well, let’s just drop them anywhere between Nigeria and Cameroon so they find their way home.
“They should pray Boko Haram and their cousins are no longer active there. Buluaa sane! Nonsense! GbetorKoklo!”
His comments come as the Labour Division of the High Court in Accra prepares to hear two ex-parte applications filed by the 11 nationals on September 23.
The deportees, originally removed from U.S. detention centers and flown to Ghana earlier this month, are seeking an interim injunction to stop their return to home countries and a writ of Habeas Corpus to compel the state to justify their confinement.
The applicants, who include nationals from Nigeria, Liberia, Togo, Gambia, and Mali, allege they were shackled, transported without due process, and handed to Ghanaian authorities upon arrival, only to be held in a military facility.
Their lawyers argue that their detention breaches Ghana’s constitutional guarantees of liberty and administrative justice, as well as international human rights obligations.
