Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has descended heavily on the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) as well as the Attorney-General’s Department for the re-arrest of former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company (NABFCO).
The High Court on Tuesday dropped all charges against Abdul-Wahab Hanan Aludiba and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni, but were immediately re-arrested by EOCO.
The two were refused bail and not even attempts by their lawyers to get access to them was successful.
“I find the conduct of EOCO, the Attorney-General and the Government as a whole, in harassing and torturing these innocent citizens of the land in the manner described above, very shameful, reprehensible and most unworthy of a healthy democracy that Ghana has struggled to build the past 33 years,” Mr Afenyo-Markin stated in a press release on Wednesday, May 6.
“The law enforcement processes should be deployed to deal with actual wrongdoing in accordance with due process and not utilised as a propagandist machinery for the Government by arresting and detaining leading members of the opposition as a way of purporting to give meaning to the Government’s failed ORAL promise.”
He predicted that the action of EOCO was just a desparate move to save the face of the Attorney General after the charges against the accused were struck out.
The Effutu Member of Parliament urged the EOCO boss, Raymond Archer, to learn to operate in accordance with due process like his predecessors used to do.
“That important institution of State must not be turned into a rogue outfit for harassing and torturing innocent citizens extra judicially when the government becomes frustrated by a failure to prove offences levelled against them in a court of law, as we have seen in the Buffer Stock.”
The Minority Leader called on EOCO and the Attorney-General to release Hanan Abdul-Wahab and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni immediately.
“This impunity must stop.”