The High Court (Human Rights Division) Accra, will be the venue on Friday where Lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea wil move an application for bail for embattled former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB).
Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife Angela Agyei Boateng are currently in the custody of the Economic and Organized Crime Organization (EOCO), where Attorney-General Dominic Ayine says that he is holding them on GHC260 Million Bail Bond to be justified.
A copy of the bail application seen by the Daily Searchlight lists the law firm of Zoe, Akyea & Co as lawyers for the embattled former DG of the signals unit.
In an extremely well-publicized conference on Monday, Attorney-General Dominic Ayine accused Kwabena Adu Boahene of diverting some seven million dollars belonging to the NSB into his own private accounts.
In the affidavit in support of the motion for bail pending investigations, Mr. Samuel Atta Akyea deposed that he lives in Accra and is the head of the law firm of Messrs Zoe, Akyea & Co., lawyers for the Applicants. He stated that he has the authority of the applicants to depose to the facts relating to their unlawful incarceration by the EOCO and the Attorney-General.
He noted that the Applicants are man and wife and they reside at East Airport, Accra with the 1st Applicant being the immediate past Director of National Signal Bureau (NSB).
He stated that in the year 2016, the 1st Applicant was the Deputy Director of NSB and became the Director in 2017 until the change of Government.
“The 1st Applicant is also involved in businesses with the 2nd Applicant,” he stated.
Mr. Atta Akyea stated that the 1st Respondent iEOCO s a statutory body mandated by law to monitor and investigate economic and organised crimes in the realm and on the authority of the 2nd Respondent prosecute such offences which may filter through their work.
The 2nd Respondent the Attorney-General has his office defined by the Constitution.
“He is the principal legal advisor to the Mahama Government. He is responsible for the initiation and conduct of all prosecution of criminal offences in the realm.
“Significantly, all offences prosecuted in the name of the Republic of Ghana shall be at the suit of the Attorney-General or any other person authorised by him in accordance with law.
“The 2nd Respondent wields an equal power to handle all civil matters affecting the State.
“The 2nd Respondent’s audience in all the courts of Ghana is constitutionally guaranteed.
“In terms of the law and policy, the 1st Respondent is subordinate to the 2nd Respondent and carries out his instructions,” Mr. Atta Akyea wrote.
He stated that on Thursday, the 20th day of March 2025, the 1st Applicant arrived at Kotoka International Airport on a British Airways flight from the United Kingdom.
“On his arrival at the airport, the 1st Applicant reclined at the Commercially Important Persons (CIP) lounge to await the delivery of his luggage.
“While in the lounge, a ruse was created by the 1st Respondent that there were immigration issues with the 1st Applicant’s passport and he was accordingly wanted at the open place where the passengers of all aircrafts landing at Kotoka International Airport check out.
“The law-abiding 1st Applicant got into the open space only to be handcuffed for public ridicule and ferried to the 1st Respondent’s cells where he is still languishing.
“On Friday, the 21st day of March 2025, the 2nd Applicant walked to the premises of the 1st Respondent to find out how her husband (1st Applicant) was doing and she was immediately arrested as well.
“The Respondents with a clear motive to incarcerate the Applicants beyond the 48-hour period as spelt out by the Constitution has imposed burdensome and unreasonable conditions on the Applicants as the precondition for their granting them bail.
“These onerous conditions for bail are as follows:
“The 1st Applicant is to post bail in the sum of One Hundred and Twenty Million Ghana Cedis (GH¢120,000,000.00) to be justified.
“The 2nd Applicant is to post bail in the sum of Eighty Million Ghana Cedis (GH 80,000,000.00) and also to be justified,” Mr. Atta Akyea stated.
