News:
November 15, 2017
The honorable Member of Parliament for Jirapa, Dr Francis Dakurah has noted that Ghana’s criminal justice system is not fully developed like that of the Western world to create absolute confidence in law enforcement agencies and the judiciary.
According to him, since there is no absolute trust in the system, parcels belonging to people suspected to be involved in corrupt cases should be opened in their presence rather than just among the security.
The MPs call came in the wake of the advent of the creation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
Sections of the Office of the Special Prosecutors Bill, 2017 currently before Parliament provides that parcels belonging to suspects can be search by Police in their absence.
The Jirapa lawmaker argues that Officers wanting to incriminate suspects can in-plant foreign materials into parcels of suspects in order to implicate them in their absence.
He has therefore cautioned against the passage of the Office of the Special Prosecutor Bill without making provision for such considerations.
By Christian Kpesese