The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Minority in Parliament have announced plans to march to the offices of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) today, July 7, 2025.
The protest is in response to the continued detention of Abdul-Wahab Hanan, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO).
The NPP has accused EOCO of violating Mr. Hanan’s human rights following his arrest on June 25, 2025, insisting that the conditions of his bail have already been met.
NPP National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, announced the planned march during an interview on Accra-based Channel One TV.
He called on EOCO to arraign Mr. Hanan if he has committed any crime instead of detaining him unjustly.
“If Hanan has done something wrong, put him before a court of law and let him have his day. We will go to the EOCO office together with some MPs, party sympathisers, and executives and ask why. We want to know why he is still being kept in the station when the conditions that you put on him have been met,” he stated.
Mr. Mustapha also criticised what he described as EOCO’s poor communication and punitive conduct, claiming that Mr. Hanan’s bail conditions had already been exceeded.
“The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bail conditions. When everything was finished, we were calling Raymond Archer and his deputies to come and just go through and grant the young man bail to go home; none of them picked up their phone calls. So, he has been left there as punishment for exactly what we do not know,” he added.
Mr. Hanan and his wife were arrested over alleged financial crimes during his tenure at NAFCO.
While his wife has since been granted bail set at GHS30 million, Mr. Hanan remains in custody and is yet to fully satisfy the conditions of his GHS60 million bail.
Source: Adomonline.com
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