Lawyers of Ken Ofori-Atta have said that the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP) should not have declared the former Finance Minister a fugitive from justice in the first place.
Bright Okyere Agyekum, a member of Ofori-Atta's legal team, said that the previous discussion on a specific date for the return of Mr Ofori-Atta had not been concluded when the OSP declared him a wanted person. "That should not have taken place in the first place.
If you look at the series of correspondence between the OSP and lawyers for Mr Ken Ofori-Atta it was evident that the parties were having communications and were discussing possible dates for the investigation or for his attendant. "The parties had not concluded their deliberations, so with a little more time, they would have settled on what they settled on today [ the returning date].
So I think that he ought not to have been declared a fugitive or a person fleeing from justice," he said on the Agenda show on TV3 on Tuesday, February 18.
