The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Minority in Parliament will today, Monday, July 7, 2025, march to the offices of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO).
This is in protest over what they describe as the unlawful and punitive detention of former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer, Abdul-Wahab Hanan.
The protest follows EOCO’s refusal to release Hanan despite meeting the bail conditions set after his arrest over alleged financial crimes.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Newsroom on Sunday, NPP National Youth Organizers Salam Mustapha lashed out at EOCO for flouting due process and called on the agency to either charge Hanan in court or let him go.
“If Hanan has done something wrong, put him before a court of law and let him have his day,” he declared.
“We will go to the EOCO office together with some MPs, party sympathizers, 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.”
Mustapha described the continued detention as unacceptable and accused EOCO of deliberately refusing to communicate.
“The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bail conditions. When everything was finished, we called Raymond Archer, 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,” he said. “So, he has been left there as punishment for exactly what we do not know.”
Abdul-Wahab Hanan was arrested on June 25 along with his wife, as part of EOCO’s investigations into alleged economic crimes at NAFCO. His wife has since been granted bail set at GH¢30 million, while Hanan remains in custody—still to satisfy the full terms of his GH¢60 million bail.
The arrest, which took place simultaneously in Accra and Tamale, also led to the detention of a third, unnamed individual believed to be linked to the investigation.
