TAXI DRIVERS in the Ga West Municipality of the Greater Accra Region on Thursday carried out their threat to sue Alfred Oko Vanderpuije, chief executive of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and six others.
The �floating� taxi drivers last week issued a four-day ultimatum to government, including the AMA mayor, to reverse the directive requesting all taxi drivers to regularize their operations by joining unions or associations for effective regulation of their activities or risk being dragged to court.
The taxi drivers had described the AMA�s directive issued early this month as untenable.
Apart from Mr Vanderpuije, those joined in the suit are the Attorney General, Ministry of Transport and its sector Minister Dzifa Aku Ativor as well as Ghana Police Service and its Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the AMA as a body.
Earlier last week, the Accra Regional Police Command arrested about 80 demonstrating drivers for breaching the Public Order Act for embarking on illegal demonstrations in protest against the new directive.
But the group of cab drivers, in a writ of sermons filed at the Fast Track Court last week through their solicitor, Mary Ohenewa Afful, among other things, are seeking a �true and proper interpretation of Articles 1(2), 21 (1) (d) (e) (g), 21 (2)� of the 1992 Constitution.
The plaintiffs argued that under the current constitutional dispensation, nobody could be forced to join a union, adding that the freedom of association is enshrined in the 1992 Constitution.
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