Renowned Ghanaian political geographer, Professor Raymond Bagulo Bening has sued the Ghana government for infringing on his intellectual property rights.<\/p>\n
He alleges that the gov\u00adernment was illegally using contents of his manuscripts that trace the development of Ghana’s international boundaries from 1876 to date in the maritime bound\u00adary litigation between Ghana and Ivory Coast without his permission.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”odODTLfffdpvXgomb6r2UgnvDuKD08q4″]The Commercial Divi\u00adsion of an Accra High Court is expected to commence hearing of the case on Thursday. According to the suit, upon request by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Professor Raymond Bagulo Bening made available manuscript titled ‘Ghana: National Boundaries and Vic\u00adinal Relations (International Bound\u00adaries) 1876 \u2013 2010\u2019, to the Foreign Affairs Ministry on April 18, 2011. At the time, Alhaji Mohammed Mumuni was the Minister of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n
The suit alleged that the Minister caused several copies of the manu\u00adscripts to be made available to some officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including the Ghana National Continental Shelf Delineation Project team.<\/p>\n
It alleged that other officials used the same in their negotiations without the permission of Professor Bening.<\/p>\n
It added that when Prof Bening de\u00admanded the return of the manuscripts, the ministry failed, neglected or re\u00adfused to return the manuscripts to him.<\/p>\n
He is, therefore, seeking general damages for infringement of his intel\u00adlectual property rights of the manu\u00adscripts. Prof Bening is also seeking an order of perpetual injunction restrain\u00ading government and all other govern\u00adment officials from continuing to infringe on his intellectual property right in whatever manner.<\/p>\n
The applicant is also seeking an order directing the Minister to return the manuscript to him. Contents of the manuscripts The manuscript traces the develop\u00adment of Ghana’s international bound\u00adaries from 1876 to 1957, as well as the Gold Coast-Togo boundary of 1914. It also discusses the problems of colonial boundaries up to 1957.<\/p>\n
It traces the development of inter\u00adnational boundaries of Ghana and the problems associated with these bound\u00adaries from 1876 to present. The manuscript also touched on Ghana-Ivory Coast, Ghana-Togo and Ghana-Burkina Faso boundaries and the problems associated with the boundaries from 1876 to date.<\/p>\n
It also explains Ghana’s territorial sea, maritime boundaries and airspace in relation to Ghana-Ivory Coast boundary. It discusses the evolution of Ghana’s territorial sea boundaries, maritime and airspace from 1874 to present.<\/p>\n
There is an interesting chapter on Anglo-French co-operation in West Africa from 1845 to 1957.<\/p>\n
There are many maps illustrating the evolution of these boundaries, in\u00adcluding the original map that will be used for the determination of the Ghana-Ivory Coast maritime bound\u00adary. On July 12, 1893, the original map of the Ghana-Ivory Coast maritime boundary was defined.<\/p>\n
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