What is the argument to the contrary ? That after the family of Gregory Afoko, having gone through the rigmarole of securing and satisfying all the bail requirements, which was subsequently certified by the Court’s registry, will not be set free by the IGP and CID against the Accra High court’s order. The Attorney General in subsequent legal tussles even at the Appeals Court suffered what Lord Denning would recount in his memoirs as ‘a crushing rebuff.’ Curiously enough, the IGP and CID perhaps being misled by some undiscerning zeal will not release suspect Gregory Afoko even against the firm grant of an application for Habeas Corpus (an order by a court for the production of a person’s body). Then, much to the chagrin of the Ghanaian public, what smacked of a malicious intent was when Gregory Afoko’s family expressed their sorrow on the non-consensual interference with the health of Gregory Afoko in their ‘uncontested’ claim against the police who forced, injected and took blood samples of a healthy Gregory Afoko who had not complain of ill health. The family until after strenuous struggles would not be allowed access by the Police to see Gregory Afoko in the unlawful sub-human custody neither would his Lawyer. The family is naturally concerned with what food Gregory Afoko is being fed with, the water he drinks ?
It is, as Lord Justice Rix of the UK Supreme Court would say a ‘speaking silence’ on the part of the Ghana Bar Association who would issue a statement through their President Mr Benson Nutsukpei against the attack and threats on Kenyan Supreme Court Judges rather act unconcern, disinterest and indifferent to such abuse of power and open disregard for the authority of the judiciary in this country by the IGP and CID who are members of the Executive.
