Minority Leader and Effutu MP Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin has accused the Economic and Organised Crime Office of “extra judicial harassment” following the rearrest of former National Food and Buffer Stock Company CEO Abdul-Wahab Hanan Aludiba and his wife, Faiza Seidu Wuni.
The couple was picked up by EOCO on Monday, May 5, 2026, a day after the Attorney-General withdrew all charges against them in court.
In a strongly worded statement, Afenyo-Markin said the arrest came a year after Hanan and three others were arraigned on charges that the defence argued were weak and frivolous during a Case Management Conference.
He said the Attorney-General had attempted to introduce fresh witness statements without court approval, an objection that was upheld. Following a second objection by defence counsel led by former Attorney-General Godfred Yeboah Dame, the prosecution withdrew all charges against the accused persons.
“One would have thought that EOCO would step back, conduct more thorough investigations and understand the matter before deciding whether to charge the accused persons again or not,” Afenyo-Markin said.
Instead, he alleged, EOCO “in an impulsive and knee-jerk reaction” re-arrested Hanan and his wife for “offences unknown to even his legal team” and has since refused them bail, despite the couple being on court-granted bail before the charges were withdrawn.
The MP also claimed that Hanan’s lawyers were denied access to him at EOCO’s offices from 11am until 8pm on Monday.
“I find the conduct of EOCO, the Attorney-General and the Government as a whole, in harassing and torturing these innocent citizens… very shameful, reprehensible and most unworthy of a healthy democracy that Ghana has struggled to build the past 33 years,” he stated.
Afenyo-Markin on his Facebook page tied the arrest to the government’s ORAL anti-corruption initiative, arguing that law enforcement is being used as “a propagandist machinery” to target opposition figures.
He recalled that the Attorney-General had held a press conference last year citing the Buffer Stock case as a major ORAL example and “vilified these same accused persons as having stolen money from the State when he had not even filed any charges against them.”
The MP described the rearrest as “a desperate attempt to save the face of the Attorney-General and sustain a false impression of a continuation of the Government’s failed ORAL promise.”
Osahene Afenyo-Markin urged EOCO Executive Director Raymond Archer to “learn to operate in accordance with due process like his predecessors,” warning against turning the agency into “a rogue outfit for harassing and torturing innocent citizens.”
He called on both EOCO and the Attorney-General to release Hanan and his wife immediately, adding: “This impunity must stop.”
EOCO has not issued a public statement on the rearrest or the specific charges against the couple as of Tuesday morning.
The Buffer Stock case has been one of the high-profile prosecutions under the government’s ORAL drive since 2025.
