Ghana’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to make public its agreement with the US government to accept two former Guantanamo Bay detainees, who were transferred to the country in January.
It made the ruling in a case brought by two people suing the government for “illegally accepting to accommodate two Guantanamo detainees”.
The attorney general had argued that releasing details of the agreement could undermine national security.
But the court disagreed, saying the government was not protected by the secrecy act of 1962.
The two Yemeni detainees, Mahmud Umar Muhammad Bin Atef and Khalid Muhammad Salih Al-Dhuby, were transferred as part of the US government plan to close down the detention facility in its naval base in Cuba.
Their arrival continues to generate a lot of controversy in the country.
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Thomas Naadi BBC Africa, Accra
