Court orders Ministry to make full disclosure of MMT buses re-branding contract

The Accra High Court has ordered the Ministry of Transport to make full disclosure of the contract for the re-branding of the 116 buses procured for the Metro Mass Transit (MMT) Limited. 

Seven individuals, acting in the name of a pressure group, Citizen Ghana Movement, had prayed the court to direct the Minister of Transport to furnish them with copies of the contract for the branding of the buses and copies of all documents relating to the contract. 

Counsel for the defendant, the Attorney-General, had argued that the applicant had erred in bringing the case to the High Court instead of the Supreme Court. 

But the court ruled that the case was within its jurisdiction so long as public funds were used in the transaction, adding that the public has the right to access every information in that regard.  


SOURCE: DAILY GRAPHIC