DO NOT LOSE YOURSELF HON. HARUNA IDDRISU FOR POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY.

Hon. Haruna Iddrisu has disappointed me greatly. How can the amiable lawyer and a lawmaker lead the minority and author such press statement which seems to expose his confusion of the cases. The 8 suspects are not members of the Delta Force. They were not arrested in action or proven to have committed such prohibited act of the land, which is a legal requirement in the act components to prove a crimeas in “bodily movement” and were not also arrested even with the court premises or 600metres radius. As a matter of fact, almost all of them were arrested two or three suburbs away from the court premises engaging in a different activity that sufficiently serves as ‘Alibi’ in case of defences.

I can understand how badly you need the political populism to endear yourself to your party, NDC folks for flagbearership when President Mahama has started strides of coming back. Otherwise, why would a lawyer of your standing insist that someone should be sentenced into prison for an unproven evidence? Please do not lose yourself for any political expediency.

 FACTS

We would recall that some weeks back an incident of pandemonium occurred in the KMA court as some hoodlums raided the court that was sitting on the 13 suspects who are alleged to have invaded the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator’s office to resist his appointment to that office. We would also recollect that the media chided the police for such security lapses hence the police, unable to withstand the pressure, went on an arresting spree –arresting anyone they suspected had big head or is a Rasta man or ugly to the police and pinned on them those charges they could not substantiate –and that is only information that the State Attorney can rely on to advised accordingly.

 INFORMATION MINISTRY

On the information ministry’s release on the case –I think it was needless. How can the ministry release suggest that the government was expecting those 8 suspects to be convicted to save its face from the ultimate responsibility of security lapses in the court. It is time governments stop explaining the incompetence of its agencies and punish them for it or make heads roll.

 GHANA BAR ASSOCIATION

I wholly agrees with the Ghana Bar Association that the police should cast their net wide and do thorough investigation that can stand the test of proof in a court of competent jurisdiction to secure a criminal prosecution.

Summation

Yes I am not happy with the invasion of the court but fry it, bake it or boil it –the law is the law. The principle of standard of proof in a criminal jurisprudence that says a person is considered innocent until proven guilty, that means that the prosecution team must prove each and every element of the offence ‘beyond reasonable doubt’. That’s to say the judge or jury must not convict unless the prosecution has made them sure that all the elements of the offences are present to uphold Article 19 of our constitution. We are even luck that the 8 suspected court ‘raiders’ who have been acquitted by a court of competent jurisdiction for lack of evidence is not citing Ghana for infringing on their human right since the actions of the police contravenes the Article 9 of the UN Charter on Human Right “No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.” of Ghana is a signatory.

 Bright Oppon-Nyarko (Sirh Bryte)

Subin Comm Director, NPP

 

 

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Hon. Haruna Iddrisu has disappointed me greatly. How can the amiable lawyer and a lawmaker lead the minority and author such press statement which seems to expose his confusion of the cases. The 8 suspects are not members of the Delta Force. They were not arrested in action or proven to have committed such prohibited […]

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