A private legal practitioner Bobby Banson wants the use of nolle prosequi by state prosecutors restricted.
He argues that nolle prosequi can be used as a tool for punishment.
Commenting on the recent withdrawals of the cases including officials of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), while speaking on the Key Points on TV3 Saturday, February 8, he said "On a larger scale, we are raising this because the persons in this report are politically exposed or deemed to have been politically exposed persons but there are private individuals who have suffered the use of this tool against them. "That is the larger picture we should look at, why we should restrict the use of withdrawal and nolle prosequi as provided in the constitution. "The way it is now, you can be prosecuted and a day before the judgement will be given, you may have spent maybe four years going through the trial and a day before the judgement will be delivered, if for whatever reason the AG suspects that you will be freed, he can enter nolle prosequi.
It means that when you are leaving the court you can be rearrested and start all over again." For his part, private legal practitioner, Godwin Edudzi Tameklo, has said that there were memos and conversations in the Attorney-General's department during the tenure of Godfred Dema to discontinue the trial of former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Johnson Asiama who has now been nominated as Governor.
