A private legal practitioner, Alex Dodoo, has sued the Ghana Standards Authority (GSA), challenging its decision to enforce standards that prohibit the importation of certain used vehicles into the country.
The suit was filed at the Accra High Court (General Jurisdiction) on October 5, 2026, through his lawyers, Dodoo & Partners. The GSA received the writ of summons on October 9.
Mr Dodoo is asking the court to declare the strict enforcement of the National Vehicle Standards unlawful and to restrain the Authority from implementing the measures outlined in public notices issued on August 3 and August 14, 2026. He is also seeking costs.
Under the notices, the GSA announced that enforcement of the National Vehicle Homologation and Conformity Assessment programme would begin on October 1, 2026.
The rules target vehicles considered unsafe or unsuitable for importation, including flood-damaged, burnt or structurally compromised vehicles, those assembled from spare parts and vehicles more than 15 years old.
The restrictions also cover vehicles without speedometers displaying kilometres per hour and those lacking the required inspection and Certificate of Conformance from an approved third-party body in their country of origin.
In his legal argument, Mr Dodoo contends that the GSA cannot treat the standards as mandatory without the necessary legal instrument.
He argues that the authority to declare a standard mandatory rests with the sector minister and that no such declaration has been published in the Gazette.
He wants the court to stop the GSA from enforcing the requirements on that basis.
No hearing date has been announced, and the Authority had not publicly responded to the suit at the time of the report.
