The New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the Minority in Parliament will gather today, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the offices of the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) to protest the continued detention of Abdul-Wahab Hanan, the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO).
The party has accused EOCO of violating his human rights, asserting that the conditions of his bail have already been met. In an interview on Channel One TV’s Newsroom on Sunday, NPP National Youth Organizer Salam Mustapha criticised EOCO’s handling of the situation and urged the agency to seek justice through the courts instead of keeping the former CEO in custody.
He stated, “If Hanan has done something wrong, bring him before a court of law and let him have his day. We will go to the EOCO office together with some MPs, party sympathisers, and executives to ask why he is still being held when the conditions set for his release have been met.”
He further expressed frustration over EOCO’s lack of communication and what he described as punitive detention, despite the bail evaluation exceeding the required threshold. “The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bill 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.”
Abdul-Wahab Hanan was arrested by EOCO on June 25, together with his wife, over alleged financial crimes. While his wife has since been granted bail set at GH¢30 million, Hanan remains in custody, yet to fully satisfy the conditions of his GH¢60 million bail. The arrest, part of a wider investigation into suspected economic crimes at NAFCO, was carried out simultaneously in Accra and Tamale, and also led to the apprehension of a third, unidentified individual believed to be connected to the case.
By: Bervelyn Longdon
