A private legal practitioner, Dennis Adjei Dumoh, has expressed concern about the continuous imposition of a curfew on the\u00a0\u00a0Tafo Township in the Ashanti Region, saying it\u00a0is against the country\u2019s laws.<\/p>\n
Last month, the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) placed a curfew on the Tafo township following clashes between the Muslims and the locals backed by the traditional authorities over a piece of cemetery land.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”IPjbCFhXsgp1tI5jc7H8ALxibTlGtrVg”]One Muslim died and several others sustained injuries after violent clashes between the two.<\/p>\n
The curfew\u00a0has since\u00a0been eased\u00a0but some political and traditional leaders have called on the Interior Ministry to lift the curfew entirely because total calm has returned to the town.<\/p>\n
Curfew runs contrary to\u00a0Public Order Act<\/strong><\/p>\n Speaking to Citi News<\/strong>, Dennis Adjei Dumoh said the handling of the curfew run contrary to the Public Order Act of Ghana and thus urged the Interior Minister to reconsider it.<\/p>\n According to Lawyer Dumoh, the law prescribes how the Interior Minister is supposed to impose a curfew.<\/p>\n He also noted that the length of the curfew which has exceeded 30 days, is illegal because a curfew cannot be imposed for more than seven days.<\/p>\n \u201cThe law further goes ahead to say that no person can impose a curfew on the whole of Ghana and secondly if you impose a curfew, you cannot impose it for more than seven days at a go.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawyer Dumoh also questioned why the curfew was imposed by REGSEC, something he explained is not in accordance with the law.<\/p>\n “The curfew was imposed by REGSEC.\u00a0The law on imposition does not give the power to impose a curfew by REGSEC. It lies in the minister… the authority that can impose a curfew is the minister of interior.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A private legal practitioner, Dennis Adjei Dumoh, has expressed concern about the continuous imposition of a curfew on the\u00a0\u00a0Tafo Township in the Ashanti Region, saying it\u00a0is against the country\u2019s laws. Last month, the Ashanti Regional Security Council (REGSEC) placed a curfew on the Tafo township following clashes between the Muslims and the locals backed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}