A campaign to get the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to free Dennis Miracles Aboagye has hit social media.
This comes after the communications officer hopeful for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dennis Miracles Aboagye, was picked up by EOCO.
Reports say they were helped by the Immigration Service to execute the arrest at the Accra International Airport.
Information around his arrest is sketchy, but reports say it is linked to his tenure at the Inter-ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralization.
Some leading members of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) have taken to social media to complain bitterly about the treatment being meted out to their party members.
Justin Kodua in a post shared via social media said “RELEASE Dennis Miracles Aboagye NOW
Officers of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) with the help of Immigration officers arrested Dennis Miracles Aboagye at the airport and took into custody. Since then they have denied his lawyers access and his whereabouts is not disclosed with no charges preferred.
Let us be clear about what this is. It is not law enforcement. It is intimidation.
Dennis Miracles Aboagye is one of the loudest and most effective critics of this government. He has asked hard questions about galamsey. He has challenged this administration’s record. He announced his candidacy for a leadership position in our party only hours ago. And now he sits in EOCO custody.
The NPP therefore demands:
That EOCO release Dennis Miracles Aboagye immediately, or charge him and put him before a court of competent jurisdiction as the Constitution requires.
That he be granted unrestricted access to his lawyers and his family, without further delay. Article 14(2) of the 1992 Constitution is not a suggestion.
That this government end the pattern of politically motivated invitations, arrests and detentions targeted at members of the New Patriotic Party.
We say to EOCO and to those directing it: institutions of state are not private weapons. Ghanaians are watching, and Ghana’s institutions will outlive this government.
To our members: stay calm, stay lawful, stay united. Intimidation has never silenced this party, and it will not begin today”.
