Former MP for Asante Akim North, Andy Kwame Appiah-Kubi, is not enthused with the conduct of the Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Ayine in his recent briefing on cases being investigated.
Although the private legal practitioner supports the A-G to go after corruption-related offences, Andy Appiah-Kubi believes that the right thing for the Attorney General to do was to only advertise the cases, announce the charges and suspects involved and deal with the evidences in court.
He argued that the A-G’s conduct of putting out some evidences in the public domain is not the appropriate practice.
“I appreciate the fact that maybe the Attorney General wants to be transparent and bring out the cases on his profile, that is good.
“But I would have thought the Attorney General would only just advertise the cases, the charges and the persons involved and leave it there and then continue with the evidence in the court room so that the accused persons will also have the opportunity to also do their case by providing the necessary evidence to rebut the claims the prosecutor would have made.
“Unfortunately, here we are with a press conference and the Attorney General seems to be discussing the facts in the case in the media space, I don’t think that is the right thing to do.
“I would have thought that when you have advertised the cases and I encourage him to bring out as many as possible but bringing them out does not also mean you start doing the case by way of providing the so-called evidence you have before it is tendered in court,” he explained.
Speaking in an interview on TV3’s New Day, March 25, 2025, he asserted that throughout his legal practice, he’s not witnessed any instance where evidence against a suspect is shared in a public domain before same evidence is tendered before a competent court of jurisdiction.
“I was surprised to hear the statements coming from our revered Attorney General…Unfortunately, in the practice of law. I had not seen the issue of bringing evidence in the public domain before the evidence is considered by the court of competent jurisdiction,” he stated.
He supports the fight against corruption but wants due process to be followed.
Andy Appiah-Kubi’s comment follows the recent press briefing by the Attorney-General on Monday, March 24 where he alleged that the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahen has been engaged in some corrupt activities while he served in office including diverting $7 million meant for a state contract into his personal account.
The Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine in his address said among other things that Mr Adu Boahene should still be in detention but his wife can be released on bail.
This was based on intelligence that he has received so far on the dealings of Mr Adu Boahen, he said.
Dr Ayine said “we gave them bail conditions about 160 million Ghana Cedis with sureties to be justified, so they brought some properties belonging to some of their friends, families, we are verifying the titles of those properties to see if we will accept them in order to grant the bail.
“With respect to Adu Boahen, I got a brief last night and I am thinking that he should continue to stay in detention. , if we are granting the wife and other suspects bail he should continue to stay in detention because of what has come to my knowledge so I have advised EOCO to vary the bail terms or release him and rearrest him and we will go to court in order to meet the 48-hour constitutional threshold, maybe likely today,”
Dr Dominic Ayine further warned all banks that Mr Adu Boahen deals with not to move any assets or money belonging to Mr Adu Boahen and his wife.
Addressing a press conference in Accra on Monday, March 24, he said the Financial Intelligence Centre is tracking the accounts owned by Mr Adu Boahen and his wife. If any of the banks fails to heed this warning, he said, the bank managers will be held liable.
“Investigations have also established that money mostly proceeds of crime from Advantage Solutions Limited and BNC Communications Bureau Limited and other similar sources have been transmitted under very suspicious circumstances through the bank accounts of these companies.
“The investigations have revealed so far that the suspect and his wife have registered companies which we are currently tracking, there are about ten companies we are tracking that they created with Advantage Solutions mostly owning all the companies. For purposes of the investigations that is ongoing, we are not going to disclose those companies.
“But I want to warn any executive, director or employee of each of the companies knowing that Mr Adu Boahen has been arrested. if they make movement of assets we will track and arrest them and prosecute them
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“All banks are also warned that if we see any wire transfers or cash withdrawals on any of the accounts belonging to Mr Adu Boahen and his companies, the Bank Managers and all their employees who are involved in those transfers will equally be arrested.
“We are monitoring their activities, and we are monitoring all their bank accounts from the Financial Intelligence Centre, with a press of a button we can see the movement of money on any of the accounts, so we are monitoring that very closely.”
The Attorney-General further announced that it is possible that the former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu Boahen, may have purchased (acquired) another citizenship from the wealth that he accumulated.
Source: 3news..com