The Lawyer for embattled former Director of the National Signal Bureau, Samuel Atta Akyea has accused the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Dr Dominic Ayine of travesty of justice.
According to him, Dr Dominic Ayine has reset the rule of law in Ghana.
He said instead of trying his clients, Mr Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife Angela Adjei Boateng, in a competent court of jurisdiction, he (Dr Ayine), has chosen the court of public opinion contrary to the provisions of law.
“When the Attorney-General and/or a prosecutor has assembled facts and not propaganda against a citizen of Ghana, the individual is then arraigned before a court of law. The charges are read against the accused who may plead guilty which opens the door for his conviction and sentence. When a plea of not gutty is entered for the accused, it kick-starts a criminal trial in which the Attorney-General or his lawful representative leaves the realm of emotions and party-frenzy to demonstrate through evidence why his fellow Ghanaian should be convicted on the account of a criminal offence duly committed,” he wrote in a press release dated March 24.
Mr Atta Akyea’s comments follow a press conference by Dr Ayine at which the latter accused Mr Adu Boahene and his wife of unexplained wealth.
“But I want to warn any executive, director or employee of each of the companies knowing that Mr Adu Boahene has been arrested. If they make movement of assets we will track and arrest them and prosecute them,” Dr Ayine disclosed.
In response, Mr Atta Akyea noted that, “We need not stress that from the arrest all the way to the point of conviction, if ever, the accused person has a constitutional right to a lawyer of his choice. Archibald, one of the leading expositors of Criminal Law Practice and Evidence calls what is contained in the dossier as “The Theory of the Prosecution”. We have underlined this kindergarten position of the law to expose the fact that when a case from the highest level of the Attorney-General is determined in the court of public opinion, then the matter has degenerated from prosecution which must not be dressed in NDC colours to persecution, whose oxygen and impunity is politically-induced and very much affront to the rule of law.”
He explained that, “Mr. Kwabena Adu Boahene cannot be called a common criminal and neither his wife, Angela Adjei Boateng. Prior to this sordid expose, Mr. Kwabena Adu Boahene was the immediate Director of the National Signal Bureau and is a man who is networked internationally. His wife, Angela, has never been a woman of straw and she is doing considerable good business.”
“We are seeing through the dastardly agenda that let us in the court of public opinion besmear Kwabena and Angela with filth and guilt so that in the event of a court of law, equity and good conscience should find the case of the Attorney-General as propaganda and not evidence, we can feed frenzy to the citizenry that yes indeed, it is the NPP judiciary that is setting the innocent free. We will pursue justice for our Clients. We are undaunted,” he concluded.
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