Sammy Gyamfi Drags IGP, Attorney General To Court -Over Jubilee House Hounding

The National Communication Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi has dragged the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney-General to the High Court for a clandestine attempt to gag him.

According to Mr. Gyamfi in a suit filed today December 23, 2019, at the Accra High Court, on Tuesday, December 17, 2019, he received a phone call from an officer by name ACP Herbert Yankson, Head of Cyber Unit of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service saying that he has been authorized by the Inspector-General of the Ghana Police Service to invite him “based on a complaint received from the Jubilee House.”

The IGP James Oppong-Boanuh is the Second Respondent in the suit.

According to Mr. Gyamfi, “ the 2nd Respondent’s authorized officer did not state any named or identifiable complainant except to say Jubilee House.”

Apparently, the IGP and his officers acting on the order of the Jubilee House had sought an ex parte application from a District Court Kaneshie for the communications devices of the NDC communications officer to be confiscated and records on the devices accessing “without any evidence that I have in fact committed or about to commit the alleged crime of forgery and spreading of false information to cause fear and panic,” the litigating NDC officer stated.

Lawyer for the applicant, Godwin Ekudzi Tameklo  insists that the district court that granted the ex parte application to hunt down the communications devices of the NDC officer lacked the jurisdiction and acted in disregard to the fundamental human rights and freedoms of the applicant as enshrined in Chapter 5 of the 1992 Constitution.

Sammy Gyamfi is, therefore, seeking the High Court to restrain the IGP, the Attorney General and the Criminal Investigations Department from accessing information on his social media and on his communications devices.

The suit seeks: “An order restraining the Inspector General of Police from proceeding to examine the phone records of the Applicant pending the determination of the Application.”

It continued with the restraints it seeks: “An order restraining the 1st Respondent, 2nd Respondent, the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service and/or their agents, officers or assigns from proceeding with efforts to access information on my Facebook account with User Name SAMMY GYAMFI with User ID URL WWW.FACEBOOK.COM/SAMUEL.GYAMFI. 94064.”

The Akufo Addo administration is increasingly becoming notorious for ordering the hounding of dissenters, including journalists. Recently, a journalist was shot dead at point-blank range by assassins following his undercover investigations indicting the Jubilee House in the documentary named Number 12.