The Attorney General’s Office has issued a directive to the Ghana Police Service to refrain from impounding and prohibiting the use of motor vehicles deemed to have violated minor road traffic regulations. The directive, signed by the Attorney-General, Godfred Yeboah Dame, dated February 9, 2024, was addressed to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr […]
The Office of the Attorney-General has tabled before Cabinet a bill that seeks to reform the criminal justice system by overhauling the jury system and reducing interlocutory applications in the hearing of criminal cases. The bill, expected to receive Cabinet approval this month, also seeks to eliminate other aspects of the criminal justice system which […]
The police have initiated investigation for possible prosecution in a case in which a student of Adisadel College is seen bullying a fellow student in a viral video. The action of the police is on the advice of the Office of the Attorney-General after the issue became public. The police yesterday visited the school premises […]
Some 82 police officers have filed a suit against the Attorney General (1st defendant), the Ghana Police Service (2nd defendant), and the Inspector General of Police (3rd defendant). The plaintiffs contend that the Ghana Police Service failed to promote them after they finished their studies under the organization’s study leave with pay policy. In the […]
The police have forwarded the docket on two suspects arrested in connection with the killing of 21-year-old soldier, Private Imoro Sherrif, at Ashaiman in the Greater Accra Region to the Attorney-General’s (A-G) office for advice. Samuel Tetteh, 20, aka Wiper, unemployed, and Abubakar Sadick, 20, aka Birdman Naadu, a scrap dealer, have been charged with […]
The Ghana Police Service is yet to furnish the Attorney General with a docket on new findings on the case involving the four girls who were kidnapped – and later declared dead – in Sekondi-Takoradi in the Western Region. The Attorney General’s Department is therefore unable to go ahead with its desire to amend the […]
A former Attorney-General of the Federation, Mohammed Bello Adoke has been arrested in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, by Interpol following confusion over a warrant of arrest that has already been vacated, TheCable reports. A federal capital territory high court in Abuja had issued a warrant of arrest against Adoke and four others on April […]
The Attorney-General’s Department has debunked media reports that an investigative report by the Commission for Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) on alleged corruption relating to waste management company Zoomlion is missing According to the department, it received two CHRAJ reports in June 2018. It explained that both reports were forwarded under cover of a […]
Former Director of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Office of the president, Dr. Tony Aidoo has described the creation of the office of the Special Prosecutor as absolutely unnecessary and a drain on the national coffers. According to him, there are already existing state agencies with the mandate to fight corruption, adding that the only […]
The Attorney-General’s Department (AG) has released the documents it intends to use to prosecute the five persons accused of causing financial loss of more than $14.8 million (about GH¢67 million) to the state in the controversial SSNIT Operational Business Suite (OBS) project. The move by the A-G is in compliance with a landmark judgment by […]
Menzgold has ramped up its legal firepower as it has hired one of the leading British law firms Baker & McKenzie LLP as it prepares to do battle with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over a regulatory stand-off. The Ghana-headquartered company will continue to draw on the expertise of one of the country’s highly […]
