Legal counsel for Kwabena Adu-Boahene, former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Samuel Atta Akyea, has expressed concern over the unfair portrayal of his client as a criminal.

Speaking in an interview on Joy News, monitored by GhanaWeb on Tuesday, March 25, 2025, he stated that the unrealistic bail requirements set by the National Investigations Bureau (NIB) have made it impossible to secure his client's release.

"When your captors are in the public domain and pronounce you guilty, they can tell you to go and bring the whole of the United Kingdom. And if they are not satisfied, they may say, 'Go and add all the houses in America.' So, we don’t expect them to be kind to us at all.

"Having regard to the fact that we are already poisoned as criminals to the entire world, it is distasteful," he noted.

The former lawmaker also expressed concern over his inability to have confidential discussions with his client.

"What is even worse is that, despite my standing as a lawyer, I am not permitted to have a confidential engagement with my client. The whole idea is that EOCO officials must stand by while I interrogate my client so they can listen in on a confidential engagement.

"But the point of the matter is this: Is this a reset of the constitution? For the first time in the annals of our criminal jurisprudence, a lawyer cannot have a confidential engagement with his client before interrogation? What is the basis of the right to counsel as enshrined in the constitution? I do not understand. As we speak, they have exceeded the 48-hour rule, and my client is still behind bars," he noted.

On Monday, March 25, 2025, the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, disclosed during a press conference that Adu-Boahene was arrested in connection with a $7 million cyber defense system contract that had been diverted into his private account.

Adu-Boahene and his wife remain in detention at the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO).

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