Godfred Yeboah Dame has challenged Deputy Attorney-General Dr Srem Sai to produce evidence that the former National Buffer Stock Company boss, Hanan Abdul-Wahab, attempted to withdraw money from a frozen bank account.
He insists the allegation is false and was used to justify what he describes as an unlawful arrest.
In a statement issued on Sunday, July 5, Mr Dame, counsel for Abdul-Wahab, accused the Deputy Attorney-General of making misleading claims in a Facebook post intended to defend his client’s arrest at the airport after a High Court had granted him permission to travel to the United Kingdom.
According to the statement, the Facebook post was “laden with falsehood” and amounted to “a lame attempt to cover up the Attorney-General’s deplorable authorisation for an order of a court of competent jurisdiction to be violated with impunity.”
Mr Dame said the High Court, presided over by Justice Achibonga sitting as an additional High Court judge, granted Abdul-Wahab permission to travel from July 4 to July 12, 2026, to attend an appointment with his optician after hearing arguments from both parties, including the Deputy Attorney-General.
He argued that the order was consistent with previous decisions allowing accused persons facing criminal trials to travel abroad while on bail.
The strongest rebuttal in the statement addressed claims that Abdul-Wahab attempted to access a frozen bank account.
“The allegation by the Deputy Attorney-General that our client attempted ‘to use false means to empty his frozen bank account with Republic Bank …’ is simply untrue. We challenge him to produce evidence of a withdrawal of any sum by our client from any of his bank accounts since the date of the court order.”
Mr Dame further argued that no valid court order currently exists freezing his client’s accounts.
“In any event, there is no valid order of any court of competent jurisdiction freezing our client’s accounts.”
He explained that although Abdul-Wahab’s accounts were frozen during an earlier prosecution, those orders lapsed after the charges were withdrawn on May 5, 2026.
The statement added that when fresh charges were filed later that month, the High Court at Adentan ruled that the re-arrest “began a fresh process” and implied “that there is no valid freezing order” in force.
Mr Dame said his legal team had already communicated that position to the Economic and Organised Crime Office.
He accused the Attorney-General’s office of misleading the public over the circumstances surrounding the arrest.
“It is thus grossly deceptive and misleading for the Attorney-General and his Deputy to deploy the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) to arrest our client based on a false allegation of an attempt to withdraw money from a frozen bank account (evidence of which does not exist).”
The statement concluded with a warning that legal action would follow.
“We will accordingly institute proceedings for contempt of court against the Attorney-General, his Deputy and the Director of BNI for this blatant and wilful violation of an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.”
Mr Dame also alleged that the latest development reinforced concerns about “the persistent harassment of our client and other citizens of Ghana under the current administration.”
