Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, has slammed the John Dramani Mahama government over the continuous detention of the Bono Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Baffoe (aka Abronye DCE).
According to him, Abronye should have been granted bail because the allegations against him are a misdemeanour, which is not a serious crime and does not warrant his continuous detention.
He claimed that persons he prosecuted as Attorney General, including the current Minister of Finance, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson, and the Director of Special Operations at the National Security, Richard Jakpa, who were accused of serious crimes, were given bail.
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“The most important thing is that tomorrow the matter is coming up and I’m sure the court would be minded to grant him bail. Even the most serious offences I prosecuted in my time, the treason trial, on the very first day, all the accused persons were granted bail.
“I prosecuted very high-profile figures in the NPP: Collins Dauda, Ato Forson, and Richard Jakpa, who has been given a high position in this administration. All of them were granted bail with very, very flexible terms,” he said.
He added, “Ato Forson was given self-recognisance bail, Collins Dauda the same thing, even Jakpa, with all the difficulties, a Justice of the Supreme Court called me and I said let him be allowed to go.”
Dame claimed that the actions of this government are in sharp contrast to the erstwhile Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo government.
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He called on the government to be “tolerant” on issues of free speech, saying, “the level of intolerance of this administration is very reprehensible; it ought not to be condoned in any democracy.”
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