EI 63 IF Allowed will Expunge our Privacy – Constitution Lawyer

An Accra High Court has fixed June 23, to rule on an interlocutory injunction filed on the suit challenging Presidential directives over the Emergency Instrument (EI 63), which seek to violate the rights of mobile phone users.

Mr. Justice Stephen Oppong also fixed June 15 for all parties who wish to file their responses and other documents to do so.

The Plaintiff Mr. Francis Kwarteng Arthur is challenging the law on the emergency Communication Instrument, 2020, which allegedly violates mobile users’ rights to privacy.

The emergency legislation seeks to give legal backing to a number of measures adopted by government to handle and contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic.

It directs mobile network operators to provide data on all call numbers, mobile merchant codes, uncashed subscriber mobile money transfer data and addresses.

Lawyer Paul Kumi, a constitutional lawyer commenting on this development on Omanbapa show is also in agreement with the Plaintiff challenging the law on the emergency Communication Instrument as he adds there are already existing legal means to acquire data from individual.