The phone call prevented the police from enforcing the bail of Afoko – Lawyer Sosu asserted

General News of Sunday, July 21st, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-07-21

The human rights lawyer, Francis-Xavier Sosu, baderted that there was collusion between the Ghana Police Service and some people in authority, defying by Ex-High Court officers having ordered the execution of a bail, the murder suspect, Gregory Afoko, who met all the conditions. .

Mr Afoko, who is facing trial for the murder of a former president of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Upper East Regional Region, Adams Mahama, was released on bail in March. 2019 in the amount of 500 000 GH ¢, but the state ignored the decision and continued to keep him illegally in detention for about three months.

In a dramatic context, a high court in Accra presided over by another judge overturned the earlier bail decision, which Mr. Afoko had not benefited from.

This development has raised many questions about the justice system in Ghana.

During the ensuing controversy, the police claimed that Mr. Afoko did not meet all the conditions of bail.

Sosu, who said he was closely following the case, refuted these claims, saying that Mr. Afoko met all the conditions of bail and needed to be released.

Speaking on the key points of TV3, the future National Democratic Congress (NDC) deputy claimed that the police had been compromised during the process as she did not have the power to decide whether the conditions of the bail had been completed.

He explained that the evidence that Mr. Afoko met all bail conditions was contained in a letter from the Registry to the police requesting that Mr. Afoko be brought before a court for the purpose of prosecution. enforcement of bail.

"In fact, the clerk invited the prosecutor to appear in court so that he could execute the bond, and just when they were about to execute that bond, it is up to that moment the investigator received a call asking him not to perform it, "he said.

"And that's what happened and I say it with authority because I was very close to that action, yes, I followed her because I was part of the team. persons legally providing services to the family, "he explained. .

Counsel Sosu insists that the State's acts in this area are the perpetration of an illegality that tends to undermine the rule of law.

"When the clerk says that bail conditions are met, the police have no discretion in this regard, whether to release the person or not, so it is clear that". there is illegality, "he said.

"Every step of this trial is a palpable abuse of the constitution," he added.