A storm is brewing at the offices of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) as members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Minority in Parliament prepare to stage a protest today. Apexnewsgh reports
Their grievance? The prolonged detention of Abdul-Wahab Hanan, former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), whom they accuse EOCO of holding unlawfully.
The NPP has vehemently condemned the detention, insisting that Hanan has already met his bail conditions. The party’s National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, did not mince words when he spoke to the media, accusing EOCO of violating Hanan’s rights.
“If Hanan has done something wrong, put him before a court of law and let him have his day,” Mustapha declared. “We will go to the EOCO office together with some MPs, party sympathisers, and executives, and ask why. We want to know why he is still being kept in the station when the conditions that you put on him have been met.”
Frustration has mounted over what the NPP describes as punitive treatment, with Mustapha revealing that despite submitting an evaluation report that exceeded EOCO’s bail requirements, officials ignored their calls.
“The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bail conditions. When everything was finished, we were calling Raymond Archer, his deputies, to come and just go through and grant the young man bail to go home, none of them picked their phone calls,” he fumed. “So, he has been left there as punishment for exactly what we do not know.”
Hanan was arrested on June 25 alongside his wife in connection with alleged financial crimes at NAFCO. While his wife was later granted bail set at GH¢30 million, Hanan remains in custody, unable to fully meet his GH¢60 million bail conditions.
The arrests, which also saw a third suspect taken into custody in Accra and Tamale, are part of a broader probe into suspected economic crimes at the state food agency.
As tensions rise, today’s protest promises to be a showdown between the NPP, the Minority, and EOCO with justice, fairness, and human rights at the heart of the dispute.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/Ngamegbulam Chidozie Stephen
