Private legal practitioner and member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Alex Gyamfi, has taken a strong swipe at Attorney General Dominic Ayine, accusing him of overseeing a legal regime that contradicts the very human rights values he once upheld.
Speaking during a panel discussion on Asaase Radio's The Forum, Gyamfi expressed deep disappointment in the Attorney General's perceived silence and complicity in a series of state actions that raise eyebrows within legal and civil society circles. "If Ayine is AG today and the very things he complained to us and asked us to learn to resist when we were students under his watch [are happening], he becomes AG and this is a man who doesn't use politics to turn the understanding of the law,"Gyamfi stated, reflecting on Ayine's past as a law lecturer and mentor to many young lawyers.
Gyamfi, clearly drawing from his own personal experience under Ayine's tutelage, lamented that the Attorney General appears to be abandoning those principles now that he occupies a powerful state office. "But since he became AG, look at what is happening; the raiding of the former Bank of Ghana Governor's home, to Kwabena Adu-Boahene and to Ken Ofori-Atta. "I'm not saying he is responsible, but these are actions happening under his watch, a principal advisor to the government," he added.
His comments came in the context of recent law enforcement actions, including the high-profile searches and interrogations involving former public officials.
