Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin has questioned the Economic and Organised Crime Office’s (EOCO) plan to search the residence of Manhyia South MP Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, saying the court order the agency obtained covers only his law firm.
Mr Afenyo-Markin said that after 2pm on Friday, October 2, 2026, EOCO told Mr Awuah, who is in its custody, that it wanted to search his home.
The MP was surprised by the decision because, according to Mr Afenyo-Markin, the court order was specific to a search of his office.
“The court order that was procured by EOCO was very clear that they should only search his office, his law firm… He found the decision to search his house quite curious so he inquired that the order of the court was specific for a search to be conducted in his office,” Mr Afenyo-Markin told the media after he and two other colleagues were allowed to see the MP.
He said the court also directed that the order be served on the Speaker of Parliament, who would inform Mr Awuah through Parliament’s internal processes, after which he could make himself available to EOCO.
According to Mr Afenyo-Markin, the Manhyia South MP arrived at EOCO at 10:47am on Thursday with his lawyers and a few colleagues. He was told he would be seen in 15 minutes, but the wait stretched to hours.
“Not until after 2pm when EOCO officials finally invited him to the interrogation room and another interrogation room. He had to wait for another 30 minutes and he was asked to fill the personal profile form,” the minority leader narrated.
The officers then left to see their director of operations for further clearance, and when they returned they asked him for an overview of a case his law firm handled for SIC Life in 2018.
He said: “After going through that process of giving them overview, which ended around 4pm, they officially tapped his shoulders and said he was under arrest.”
The MP, according to Mr Afenyo-Markin, was then asked to take EOCO officials to his law firm in Dzorwulu for a search, and he agreed. After the search, unrelated documents, including the MP’s car documents, were taken.
Mr Afenyo-Markin further revealed that Mr Awuah was taken back to the interrogation room around 7:30pm and, after a further wait, was told investigators needed to do more work and would detain him. He was put in the cells around 8pm despite his lead counsel’s protest.
Around 8am on Friday, the lead investigator told Mr Awuah a team would be put together for the second phase of the investigations and they hoped to be done by midday so he could get bail. But nobody attended to him until after 2pm, when EOCO asked to search his residence.
