The legal team for the three South African ex-police officers who were arrested in the Central Region for allegedly training the security team of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, has accused the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) of infringing on their clients’ rights.
The judge ordered that the accused persons be held in the court registry pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions, but the BNI defied the order and sent them to their headquarters for holding.
This outraged the lawyers for the accused persons, one of them being Samuel Atta Akyea, who had earlier demanded that their clients be held in the court registry and released pending the fulfillment of their bail conditions.
According to him, the BNI are behaving like they exist in a “Kangaroo” country by flouting the directive of the Court of law.
“Don’t give any impression that this a kangaroo country in which they treat people anyhow. How can a Court of competent jurisdiction say take the accused to the registry and then go and look at the house of the sureties so that bail is granted, and then you just whisk them away defying the order of the court.”
Mr. Atta Akyea also said the BNI is deliberately attempting to frustrate the bail process so they can hold the suspects over the Easter holiday period which will end next week Tuesday.
“It is going to carry far reaching consequences for them. If they do not go through bail processes today and they are detained… it will have serious implications. We are not going to joke with this matter.”
He stated that the legal team of the three South Africans will bring the BNI to order using legal avenues.
“But it’s going to have grave consequences for them. We are not going to allow them to treat us anyhow… We will not start any fight with them but we will use the law to bring them to order.”
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By Delali Adogla-Bessa/citifmonline.com/Ghana