The human right court in Accra will on Wednesday, June 29, rule on an injunction application seeking an interim order to prevent the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA) from registering a fleet of buses.

The buses were imported into the country by the State Transport Company (STC).

The suit filed by a public servant, Kwabena Osei, essentially faults the DVLA for registering vehicles without emergency exit doors, in contravention of the law.

Mr Osei also added the Police Service in the said suit for failing to enforce the law on the use of vehicles without emergency exit doors.

Mr Osei already has a case before the court in which he has sued the DVLA and 10 others, namely, STC, VIP, the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU), O&A Transport, the Metro Mass Transit, J. A. Plant Pool, the Progressive Transport Owners Association, Mariset Company Ltd (M-Plaza), the Inspector General of Police (IGP) and the Attorney General.

In a statement of claim accompanying the writ, Mr Osei had averred that while that case was ongoing, he, on Sunday, June 5, 2016, followed a convoy of newly imported branded Intercity STC buses coming out of the Tema Harbour.

He added that a closer examination of the said buses used by the aforementioned transport revealed that they had constructional defects in that they did not have emergency exit doors, contrary to the law.

It is his contention that the buses will be registered and issued with both vehicle registration certificates and examination certificates by the DVLA, so that they could be used on the country’s roads for hire, in spite of the defects.

But in court today the judge after hearing all the parties to the case adjourned to Wednesday, June 29, to deliver his ruling.