First they are kept in custody beyond the constitutionally required limit for holding a person without charge. When the Government is hauled before court on a habeas corpus application, the Attorney-General after dilly-dallying explains that it was all a mistake. The military police did not know that they could not hold them for more than 48 hours without charge or something to that effect.

Meanwhile behind the scenes, they take these soldiers firstly to the circuit court at cocoa affairs, Accra and get a remand order to justify their detention. As if they were unsure the application in the circuit court was going to succeed, they repeat a similar application in this time in the High Court.

The Attorney-General then comes to court armed with the remand order from the High Court and tries to justify the wrongful incarceration of the judges. When the Attorney-General admitted that the application for the release of the soldiers came before they secured the remand warrants from the Circuit and High Courts, why was she trying to justify an illegaility?

Rightfully the court held that the soldiers had been wrongfully remanded and ordered their release. A good one from our courts. Probably some damages against the government for the soldiers for the pain and suffering suffered by them as well as punitive costs would get lawyers to take up some pro bono cases in the future and help protect our rights.

However the Attorney-General seems she is prepared to cover the tracks or help assist some invisible persons pursue a hidden agenda and so the soldiers after breathing fresh air for some hours were picked up yet again. Again the reason given was that they had something to do with the murder of Rokko Frimpong.

Once again they are held without charge but get a court to remand these persons with the reason that investigations are on-going. Surprise, surprise! In the very court these soldiers were brought to be remanded, the same Attorney-General has prepared a bill indicting certain other persons of having committed the same crime of murdering Mr. Rokko Frimpong.

This bill of indictment has according to the prosecution even confession statements from the accused persons. Is the Attorney-General a serious law brain or an “I’ll do what my masters want me to do” person. Is she not concerned about the torture the family of Rokko Frimpong is going through?

Is the Attorney-General not concerned about what the families and the soldiers are going through? Is she also not worried about those whose confession statements have brought them to court?

Is she not trusting the investigative work done by the police who arrested the original five persons charged with murdering Rokko Frimpong?

How about those accused persons who have been in custody and were only waiting for the start of this year’s criminal assizes? Does she want to portray the courts as not knowing what they are about? Does she want a poor judge to have Ghanaians questioning what the judiciary is about?

After a long merry go-round, she comes to court and files a nolle prosequio. Just because as Attorney-General she can do that? Please let the office of the Attorney-General sit up. This is a big time blunder. There is clearly no professionalism being displayed from that office.

This is because to her pay masters the NPP had something to do with the death of Rokko Frimpong.

Read the pro- NDC press and they would tell you the deceased opposed the redenomination of the cedi. But hang on. Did he, and if so what is his clout? The man was a Deputy Managing Director of GCB and not even the Managing Director.

Did the board of GCB also oppose? What about the many banks we have in the land? What is the position of GCB in our banking set up apart from being the source of salaries for many a state institution and worker?

Yet in the face of all these the Attorney-General has once again showed that her time with the Commonwealth Secretariat was a waste. Would she not have condemned such acts while working with the Commonwealth Secretariat?

Is she not concerned about the protection of human rights? Is she not a professional whose judgment should not be tainted with political considerations? Did she sincerely and professionally believe that it is humanly possible to charge two sets of people with the same offence in the same court?

Why did she attempt to justify the wrongful incarceration of the soldiers in the first place with that flimsy excuse that they were ignorant about the 48-hour rule? Why did she secure two remand warrants from different courts to justify the incarceration of the soldiers?

Since coming into office the President has done a lot of illegal things such as dissolving boards of state organizations and committed various human rights blunders. In all these the Attorney-General has kept silent and sometimes even defended these unlawful actions.

I daresay that the Attorney-General is clearly showing that she is not competent to run that office and the President who himself seems to have forgotten his law, must take a good look at this office if he is to have his reign steeped in gold for good governance.

Source: Ghanaimage.com