The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Minority in Parliament are set to converge at the offices of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) today, Monday, July 7, 2025, in protest of what they describe as the unjust and punitive detention of former National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO) Chief Executive Officer, Abdul-Wahab Hanan.
The party has accused EOCO of human rights violations, insisting that Hanan remains in custody despite meeting all bail conditions.
NPP National Youth Organiser, Salam Mustapha, speaking on Channel One TV’s Newsroom on Sunday, lambasted EOCO’s actions and called for the matter to be addressed through proper legal channels.
“If Hanan has done something wrong, put him before a court of law and let him have his day,” Mustapha stated. “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.”
Expressing frustration over EOCO’s silence, Mustapha added, “The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bail conditions. When everything was finished, we were calling Raymond Archer, his deputies, to come and just go through and grant the young man bail to go home. None of them picked their phone calls. So, he has been left there as punishment for exactly what we do not know.”
Hanan was arrested on June 25 along with his wife in a financial crimes probe. While his wife has secured bail of GH¢30 million, Hanan remains in custody over GH¢60 million bail conditions that the NPP claims have already been fulfilled.
