A private legal practitioner, Austin Kwabena Brako-Powers, has expressed surprise at the Attorney-General, Dr Dominic Ayine’s public commentaries on previous government appointees under investigation.
He said that as an officer of the court, the A-G should know that he must avoid drawing prejudicial conclusions and making certain public commentaries about suspects, particularly when the persons have not been arraigned.
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“Isn’t it shocking that my senior and Ghana’s Attorney-General enjoys public trial over going to court? What stops him from arraigning those suspects?” the lawyer quizzed in a Facebook post.
The private legal practitioner was reacting to a press conference the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice addressed on March 24, 2025, in which he discussed the findings of their investigation into some previously arrested government appointees.
Discussing their findings on the ex-Director of the National Signals Bureau, Kwabena Adu-Boahen, Dr Ayine said the embattled director “On January 30, 2020, signed a contract on behalf of the government of Ghana and the National Security on one hand and an Israeli company named RLC Holdings Limited on the other hand. The contract was for purchasing a cyber defence system software at $7 million.”
“On February 6, 2020, he transferred an initial amount of GH¢27,100,000 from the National Signals Bureau account at Fidelity Bank to a private BNC account at UMB. Official documentation on the transfer reveals that the amount was for the cyber defence system software payment. He transferred the money to his private company,” the A-G continued.
Dr Ayine also touched on some other individuals under investigation, including Solomon Asamoah, the former CEO of the Ghana Infrastructure Investment Fund (GIIF), who was said to be hiding in Senegal.
But Mr Brako-Powers said it is unethical for the A-G, who should have known better, to allow politics to intrude on his professional work as a senior lawyer and make certain prejudicial public statements about persons not before the court.
“I will not encourage this media posturing of the Attorney-General, which doesn’t advance the cause of justice and only ends up creating disaffection for suspects when their side of the story hasn’t been heard,” the lawyer said.
Mr Brako-Powers said only the courts have the power to undertake a scientific and impartial inquiry into the evidence the A-G and his team of investigators have gathered about suspects.
“The Attorney-General should allow our courts to work and desist from drawing hasty conclusions unhealthy for justice delivery in the country,” he added.
