Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has raised serious constitutional concerns over the continued detention of Kwame Baffoe at the Bureau of National Investigations, alleging that no signed remand order has been produced by the court.
In a strongly-worded media statement, Afenyo-Markin disclosed that lawyers for Abronye DC had repeatedly visited the court registry since the remand ruling but had allegedly failed to obtain a certified remand order authorising his detention.
He questioned the legal authority under which the Ghana Police Service transferred the opposition figure into BNI custody, warning that any detention without proper judicial documentation would amount to a violation of Article 14 of the 1992 Constitution.
“A remand order is not a verbal instruction. It is a formal judicial instrument,” he stressed, arguing that the deprivation of a citizen’s liberty cannot rest on “word of mouth.”
The Minority Leader described the situation as either a “crass dereliction of duty” or a deliberate abuse of power meant to intimidate opposition figures.
He also criticised the decision to remand Abronye DC into the custody of a state intelligence agency rather than a conventional remand facility, insisting that criticism of a judge could not reasonably be classified as a national security threat.
Afenyo-Markin has now called on the High Court to urgently intervene through a writ of habeas corpus, insisting that the judiciary must defend constitutional freedoms and prevent executive overreach.
Story By: Sheila Obaapa Naana Frimpomaa