The National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress
(NDC), Sammy Gyamfi, has been arrested by the police.
His arrest is in connection with his alleged involvement in forgery and attempts to
spread false information to cause fear and panic, reports monitored by APA has
revealed.
According to reports by Citi FM, Gyamfi was picked up at the premises of UTV in
Accra on Monday.
Meanwhile, the Lawyer for Sammy Gyamfi, Edudzi Tamakloe, expressed his
displessure with the arrest, saying that it is suppression of his client’s rights.
“As you are aware, based on the instruction of Sammy Gyamfi, we caused a human
rights application to be filed. While an application is pending, an application for
injunction was subsequently filed. I have personally followed up with a letter to the
police. I met the one in charge of cybercrime in his office and delivered the letter to
him.
He indicated to me that he would consult the legal department and respond to me
appropriately on the request that we made before the police.
From the time we sent the letter to the police to date, the Ghana Police has not
responded. That is the regrettable low that the Akufo Addo administration has
taken the law to.
Gyamfi’s arrest comes weeks after he turned down an invitation by the Criminal
Investigations Department (CID) after he filed a suit to stop the police from examining
his phone records and gaining access to his Facebook account.
In a suit at the Accra High Court, he demanded an injunction on an earlier court
warrant by the Kaneshi District Court for the seizure of his electronic gadgets.
He argued in the suit that the police “failed to establish any legal basis to have access
to the applicant’s phone records when it failed to show any probable cause that the
applicant has or is about to commit the alleged crime to justify the revocation of the
applicant’s right to privacy and the protection of same.”
He also said that the police had not provided the document he allegedly forged “and
any evidence of the said forgery”.
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