The Attorney General has been heavily criticized for actuality absent-minded and causing banking accident to the accompaniment afterwards he banned to acquire appeal acceding in the €2.37 actor ambulance case.
A above Deputy Minister for Information beneath the bygone John Dramani Mahama administration, Felix Kwakye Ofosu, in a column aggregate on X on July 30, 2024, said that from the birth of the trial, Big Sea, the manufacturers of the vehicles, were accessible to accomplish a acquittance of the bulk paid for the ambulances to be returned.
However, he said, the Attorney General beneath the action due to his ambition of imprisoning an innocent man.
"At the alpha of the trial, Big Sea, the manufacturers of the ambulances, offered to acquittance the bulk paid to them so the ambulances could be alternate to them. Dame banned because of a apathetic admiration to apprehend an innocent man," Kwakye Ofosu said.
But commenting on the affair on Peace FM, Kwamena Duncan said the Attorney General's allegation is not backed by law and that they are accomplishing so out of ignorance.
"If you attending at the bent and added offences action alteration act, 2022, it allows for addition who has been answerable or the case not to go through the abounding trial. The appeal acceding agreement referred to beneath Section 162A may be accomplished by an accused person, or admonition for the accused actuality or a prosecutor in allegation of the case of an accused person. There can never be any agreement amid a prosecutor and a third party.
"What we heard in this case is that Big Sea capital to pay some bulk of money, but Big Sea is not a affair to this bent prosecution. Beneath the law, the prosecutor cannot admit appeal acceding with a third party. There was no way the Attorney General, actuality the prosecutor in the matter, could accept entered into a appeal acceding with a third affair back the law is so clear. Sometimes, back you accept to the ability of bodies abominably accusing the Attorney General, you can alone absolve because apparently they are adage so out of ignorance," Kwamena Duncan stated, according to a video aggregate by Peace FM on YouTube.
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