Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, head of the CID, cited for contempt of court

General News on Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Source: 3news.com

2019-04-30

Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, Executive Director of the Criminal Investigation Department of Ghana Police, faces contempt charges against her for recalcitrance.

Since then, a high court in Accra has served a summons on his accusation regarding the police's refusal, CID, to release Gregory Afoko, one of the suspects in the badbadination of Adams Mahama, president. of the Upper East Regional District (NPP) region.

According to the suspect, he has fulfilled all bail conditions set by the court, but the police administration still refuses to release him.

"We met all bail conditions set by the court. IDC Chief Inspector of Police Nkrumah categorically refuses to release Gregory Afoko. He is asking for orders from above asking him not to do it. We have been instructing lawyers who lay charges of indictment against the IGP while a request has been sent to Amnesty International regarding the parody of inhumane justice, "spokesman the family.

On April 15, 2019, the Court of Appeal dismissed an action by the Attorney General for a stay of execution on bail for bail granted by a High Court in Accra.

This was the second time the Attorney General had tried to terminate the bail given to the suspect, but lost after the first, on Friday, March 22, 2019, was thrown by the High Court presided over by Judge George Buadi.

The trial judge had held that the request for continued detention of the suspect by the A-G constituted an abuse of human rights enshrined in the Constitution and governed by the Supreme Court.

He also stated that most of the arguments invoked by the A-G were already in his response to the bail application, which had initially been rejected by the same court.