Ghana-Agreement With US on Prisoners in Guantánamo is Null

The agreement reached with the United States to receive prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military prison by the government of former President John Dramani Mahama was unconstitutional, the Supreme Court of Justice ruled today.

The facility is declared illegal by the Cuban government, which decades ago required its closure and was created under cover of a US senatorial joint, the Platt Amendment, conditional on ending the military occupation of Cuba at the beginning of the last century.

According to the ruling of the high court, the Dramami Mahama administration (2012-2017) acted against the Constitution because it needed the consent of the Legislative Power to accept the two detainees, who were imprisoned for 10 years without being prosecuted or proven guilty of any crime.

Both former prisoners, identified as Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, whose nationalities are not revealed, are now in a legal limbo before the court's injunction, according to which the legislature has 10 days to approve the pact in question or to deport them.