Supreme Court dismisses case against UG road toll charges

The Supreme Court has thrown out a case brought before it by two students of the University of Ghana over the university`s decision to charge road tolls because it has no jurisdiction to make pronouncement on issue of taxing. 

According to the Court, it is only parliament that has the power to determine the issue. 

The two students of the University of Ghana, Ernest Victor Apau and Musah Mustapha filed the suit at the Supreme Court urging it to declare the action of the university to charge tolls as unconstitutional.  

They were also praying the court to perpetually restrain the University and its agents from charging motorists who plied the university’s routes.  

This follows the university’s plan to charge road tolls effective February last year. 

The reliefs sought by the applicants included a declaration that upon a true and proper interpretation of Article 174 (1) of the 1992 Constitution, the road usage and user charges the university sought to introduce amounted to taxation.

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