Lenin Anane Adjei Nelson, lawyer for Ghanaian broadcast journalist and former Board Chair of the Ghana Airports Firm Restricted (GACL), Paul Adom-Otchere, has criticised the Workplace of the Particular Prosecutor (OSP) over the bail circumstances set for his shopper’s launch.
Based on him, the requirement for Mr Adom-Otchere to current two landed properties, of unspecified worth, registered in his personal identify is extreme and unreasonable.
Talking in an interview on Channel One TV on Thursday, 31 July, Mr Adjei Nelson argued that the situation appeared intentionally structured to maintain his shopper in detention. He acknowledged:
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The assertion by the OSP and all the things I’ve seen is misplaced. The problem the OSP has created is actually to offer the canine a foul identify to be able to cling it. It’s unreasonable, within the context of bail, to require an accused particular person to provide properties registered in his personal identify.
He additional remarked:
The surprising truth is that with out assessing the profile of the suspect, the OSP insisted on two landed properties in his identify. The suspect has clearly acknowledged that he doesn’t personal any such property. This makes the situation seem calculated to detain him unfairly.
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Mr Adjei Nelson revealed that the authorized staff is contemplating submitting a movement in courtroom to request a evaluate of the bail circumstances.
Background
In a press release issued on Thursday, 31 July, the OSP disclosed that it had interviewed and formally charged Mr Adom-Otchere together with two others: Otchere Kwame Baffour Awuah, Group Govt, Industrial Companies at GACL, and Albert Adjetey Adjei-Laryea, Chief Govt Officer of Devnest Techniques.
Mr Adom-Otchere was required to current two landed properties (of unspecified worth) registered in his identify. Nonetheless, he knowledgeable the OSP that he doesn’t personal any landed property in Ghana and in consequence, remains in custody till the bail phrases are fulfilled.
This motion types a part of ongoing investigations right into a income assurance contract between the Ghana Airports Firm Restricted and a personal agency reportedly owned by the proprietor of Strategic Mobilisation Ghana Ltd (SML).
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The investigation centres on doable breaches of procurement legal guidelines, together with the award of a sole-sourced contract to an organization aside from the one formally accredited by the GACL Board.
