[ 2017-05-18 ]

The Delta Force members who alleged raided a Kumasi Circuit court were set free

Order for our re-arrest and we’ll meet you in court – Delta Force 8 to A-G
The eight members of the vigilante group, Delta
Force, who were freed by a Kumasi High Court for
lack of evidence, are daring the Attorney-General
(A-G) to order for their re-arrest, stressing that
they are ever ready to meet her in court.

According to the group, though they have been
discharged in a case the A-G ordered for its
discontinuation (nolle prosequi), they will not
hesitate to submit themselves for trial should
there be a change of mind from the country’s
number legal advisor.

“If they want to re-open the case, we are ready
for them,” Lawyer for the group, Matthew Appiah,
told Akwasi Nsiah on Si Me So on Kasapa 102.5 FM
in an interview some few hours after their release
by the Kumasi High Court on Wednesday, May 17,
2017.

The Attorney General, Ms. Gloria Akufo, in a
statement issued on her behalf by the Ministry of
Information denied ordering for the
discontinuation of the case involving the Delta
Force eight members who were standing trial for
conspiracy to commit crime, assault on public
officer among other charges.

She has therefore ordered investigations into the
circumstances under which the Principal State
Attorney in Kumasi entered a nolle prosequi and
got the eight suspects discharged for lack of
evidence.

“Preliminary investigations suggest that
decision was taken without recourse even to the
Director of Public Prosecution and may amount to
breach of internal procedures,” the statement in
part read.

Her comments came in the wake of public uproar
over the handling of the case by the Attorney
General’s Department in Kumasi.

The 8 suspects Abass Caesar, Samuel Yeboah,
Ebenezer Opoku, Kofi Fosu, Christian Anokye, Kwame
Frempong, Eric Kusi and Abdul Suleman Odudu were
freed because the prosecution does not have
evidence to prove its case of assault on a public
officer and three other charges leveled against
them.

But lawyer for the accused persons commenting
further expressed the belief that the probability
to re-open the case is very slim looking at the
advice the A-G gave on the matter.

“The advice from the A-G indicates that my
clients were not the people that banged into the
court room and tried freeing the Delta Force 13.In
law when you are acquitted and discharged, it
means you cannot be prosecuted again for same
offense. But in this case because they (Delta
Force 8) were not trialed but discharged and so if
the A-G will come again and advice that they
should be trialed because there is a new evidence
to do so, it is within her right. But I am
foreseeing that the A-G having authorized her
representative in the region to discontinue the
case will not come again and say that I have
rescinded my decision. We know that there is no
evidence against my client,” noted Lawyer
Matthew Appiah.

He added, “The advice from the A-G indicates
that my clients were not the people that entered
the court room and tried freeing the Delta Force
13. If you look at the facts, in the opinion of
the Police, the Judge was their priority and
therefore wanted to prevent the Judge. The Police
were concentrating on the Judge during the melee
and so they couldn’t identify the people who
entered the court room. Out of the eight that were
arrested, three of them didn’t even come to the
court – four of them came to the court. All of
them were arrested at Fante New Town about four
hours after the incident. The Police didn’t
secure the court. On that day there were three
Policemen at the court but about 300 people came
to court. So the Police were lambasted and in
their bid to save themselves from public ridicule
and for everybody to know that they are working,
and out of this desperation, they went on an
arresting spree. So, from day one, we know that
they Police don’t have a case against my
clients.”

Source - kasapafmonline.com

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