Information reaching frontpageghana.com just now indicates that the National Communication Director of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has been picked up by the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ghana Police Service this morning.
Confirming the news to adomonline, Eric Adjei, a member of the NDC’s Communication said he was arrested by men who introduced themselves as coming from the CID.
He said the men who arrested him came with two vehicles – a Toyota Landcruiser and one Pickup vehicle.
Sammy Gyamfi, according to sources was picked up at the premises of UTV after the stations morning show, where he was a guest.
He said the arrest was in relation to complaints of cybercrime lodged against the NDC communicator by the Jubilee House.
If readers would recalled in December 2019, the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service extended an invitation to Sammy Gyamfi after a report was made against him by the Jubilee House on allegations of forgery and false publication.
In related to that, Sammy Gyamfi instructed his lawyers to filed a lawsuit at the Accra High Court, demanding an injunction on an earlier court warrant by the Kaneshi District Court for the seizure of his electronic gadgets.
In a letter from his lawyers to the CID on December 23, 2019, Sammy Gyamfi refused to honour the CID invitation saying it could prejudice the court case.
“In as much as we wish to honour your invitation due to the respect we have for your institution, our client instructs us that we cannot honour your invitation due to change in circumstances which are that our client has filed an Application for the enforcement of his fundamental human rights at the High Court in relation to the matter being handled by your office and an application for interlocutory injunction which have both been served on you…
The decision to turn down your invitation is purely on the grounds that honouring your invitation especially when we have misgivings and concerns about how the whole matter has been handled which are a threat to the constitutional rights of our client will not only prejudice the matters before the court but also have the potential to render such matters moot which we are not prepared to do so due to the respect we have for the judicial authority of the High Court which we are enjoined including your institution to do so by the 1992 Constitution of Ghana.”
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Source: Sammy Agyei/Frontpageghana.com/Ghana
