The Police Administration has rubbish as ignorance of the law, a claim by the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) that he is going to make a record by breaking police’s principles of not granting bail to suspects in the night.
The administration in a release dated August 14, 2022 states that, the attention of the administration has been drawn to a social media publication in which the Northern Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr Adam Bantima Samba, is seen making a claim to the effect that he will make a record by breaking police principles of granting or administering bail in the night.
The release continued that, we wish to state categorically that there are no such principles or rule that forbids the police or clothes the police with the authority not to grant bail at night.
It went on that the administration wishes to state that BAIL is a constitutional right of arrested persons and can be granted at any time of the day, including holidays and weekends.
It concluded by stating that, the statement made by Mr Samba is erroneous and a clear demonstration of ignorance of the law on his part and the public should, therefore, treat it with the contempt it deserves.
The Chronicle’s investigation at the Northern Regional Capital, Tamale, revealed that during President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo’s visit to the place last week, Sunday, he met with a cross section of the public.
The Regional Minister was reported to have appeared improperly dressed and this became a subject of discussion on a local radio station the following morning and the phone line was opened for public comments.
An executive member of a group (TESCON) associated with the ruling party, reportedly had a banter with a lady on air.
Days later, during the week, the said lady was allegedly assaulted and robbed of her phone.
Police investigation led to the arrest of the Tescon president at about 15:00 hours by a person not assigned to perform such a duty.
Tension was building up in Tamale as people from all walks of life started gathering at the Police station. The suspect was subsequently granted bail.
The paper is reliably informed that since the police is judged not by the number of arrests made, but rather crimes prevented, the bail was granted to avert the occurrence of any nasty situation.
This is contrary to the claim that a principle has been broken for the first time, especially when there is no such principle.
