Nana Yaw Osei, lawyer for Gregory Afoko, the accused person charged for the murder of former NPP Upper East Regional Chairman, Adams Mahama has asserted that his client's trial was politically motivated.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 hours after Afoko was granted bail after nine years in detention, Yaw Osei unequivocally alleged that some political big wigs within the New Patriotic Party had influenced the trial processes, the reason he believes Afoko was denied bail on several occasions.
He claimed that some NPP members who had fallen out with Afoko's elder brother, Paul Afoko, a former national chairman of the party were responsible for the machinations in Afoko's trial. "Personally, I have always thought that Afoko's trial had more to do with politics than a simple criminal trial.
Where politics means that there were people within his big brother's party who wanted to do him ill. "Nobody can convince me that there wasn't any political hand pushing the matter.
