Marchisio Boateng
The Ghana Bar Association (GBA) has called for the amendment of the penalties for Ghanaians who refuse to obey the Government’s protocols for COVID-19.
In a statement released by the association yesterday, the GBA labelled the punishment for those who flout the law on the wearing of face masks as harsh.
“The GBA is apprehensive that the prisons which are presently congested, may shortly be teeming with convicts who are unable to pay fines imposed by Courts under Section 6 and paragraph 4(2).”
The GBA, therefore, recommended that “a fine of not less than 10 penalty units and not more than 150 penalty units or a term of imprisonment of not less than one month and not more than two years.”
