Minority Leader in Parliament, Haruna Idrisu

Re-arrest Delta Force 8 - Minority

Asembi Kingsley Winfred Politics May - 17 - 2017 , 19:19 1 minute read

The Minority in Parliament has called on President Akufo-Addo to immediately show leadership and reverse the Attorney General's actions that has led to the dropping of the charges against the eight members of the Delta Force vigilante group said to have disrupted a court session in Kumasi.

At a press conference in Accra on Wednesday, Minority Leader Mr Haruna Idrisu stated that the accused persons should be re-arrested and re-arraigned before the court.

He said the decision to discontinue the case for want of evidence is "an abuse of discretion, it is capricious,: adding that it was obvious from the court's ruling that it was done for narrow political expediency because the men belong to the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).

"We find it very bizarre that the Hon. Attorney-General, Ms Gloria Akufo, who assured the entire citizenry of her commitment to fairness ....will claim that she exercised the said constitutional discretion on grounds merely that there was a lack of evidence," he said.

A Kumasi Circuit Court on Wednesday discharged eight members of NPP-linked vigilante group, Delta Force, who were being tried after they disrupted court proceedings of 13 of their members on April 6, 2017.

The 13 were part of 21 men arrested by the police after they attacked the newly appointed Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator, George Agyei. The men had said Mr Agyei did not deserve the position because he played no role in the struggle to bring the NPP into power.

They wanted President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to appoint their leader who was instrumental in the NPP's 2016 elections campaign.