AG acted within his constitutional mandate – Prof Kwame Gyan

Professor Kwame Gyan, a Professor of Law and a lecturer at the University of Ghana (UoG) School of Law, has stated that the Attorney General (AG) and Minister of Justice, Godfred Yeboah Dame, did not violate any laws or ethics when he engaged with the third accused person (Richard Jakpa) in the case of the Republic versus Cassiel Ato Forson and two others.

In a news report published on Asaaseradio.com, Professor Kwame Gyan explained that the nature of the office of the Attorney General, as enshrined in the statute books, requires an open-door policy and must be welcoming to all Ghanaians regardless of their social standing or the offences they have committed.

“I had the privilege of teaching the Attorney General and one of his deputies. I have also had the privilege of teaching many other people in government. The Attorney General’s doors should be open to persons of different political persuasions. In this particular situation you have been talking about, this recording, and so on, if the Attorney General’s doors were not open, would this conversation have happened?

“If the Attorney General decided that he would not talk to anybody because he is the Attorney General, what do you think could happen? Now, after this, they are going to cause the Attorney General to be very inward-looking because who do you trust? I have heard that more tapes are coming, but from the tapes I have seen and the inquiries I have made, I see no overstepping of bounds,” Professor Gyan stated.

Professor Gyan questioned the moral grounds on which people stood to accuse the AG of not believing in justice.

“In some cases, I rather see an Attorney General who was becoming too much of a justice person to the extent that an accused person who has been granted bail but could not satisfy his bail conditions could appeal to a Supreme Court Judge to beg on his behalf. The Attorney General intervenes and says, 'let him go home, he is a Ghanaian so that the next day, he can come back and complete the bail conditions.' This Attorney General.... You are saying he is what.... He does not believe in justice?” Professor Gyan quizzed.

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