Minority Leader, Alexander Kwamena Afenyo-Markin, has urged Parliament to summon the Minister of Justice and Attorney-General, Dr. Dominic Akuritinga Ayine, to brief the House on the manner EOCO has been effecting arrest of persons of interest.
Afenyo-Markin was speaking in connection with the Economic and Organised Crime Office’s (EOCO) arrest and detention of the former Executive Secretary of the Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMMCoD), Dennis Edward Abogye, a.k.a. Miracles.
“Mr Speaker, we are a House with oversight responsibility, and there are things that are happening that if we do not talk about today, tomorrow the other side will be wearing the shoe,” he said on the floor on Tuesday, July 14, 2026.
The Minority Leader, contributing to a business statement delivered by the Second Deputy Majority Whip for the week ending Friday, July 17, 2026, expressed disappointment at the manner in which EOCO arrested Mr. Aboagye.
“Mr Speaker, the Director of Communications of our party was arrested and detained at the airport, and he has been in custody for over three days. We are not against accountability, but we are against the ‘Rambo’ style, and our colleagues should not be up in arms as it can be them tomorrow,” he stated.
According to him, the manner in which Aboagye was arrested and treated dents the nation’s democracy. He explained that their party member was ready to honour any invitation by EOCO upon his arrival from US, questioning why EOCO would arrest him at the airport and detain him for three days.
“And now the EOCO is demanding property worth over GH¢50 million before he is granted bail. Let us be careful, my dear political colleagues; let us be careful, Ghanaian political leaders, as it can be somebody tomorrow,” he said.
He explained that the complaint by the Minority should not be viewed with partisan lenses since “it can be you.”
Afenyo-Markin said Mr Aboagye was a family man, with wife and children, who lost everything to the recent floods in Accra.
“Miracles Aboagye is already traumatised because of the floods, and then to worsen it, you detained him for three days, and you say that if he wants his freedom he should bring property worth GH¢50 million.
“This is not something that must attract partisan reaction as it is a human right issue, and the Attorney-General must come to this House and brief us on what is happening,” he said.
Mr Afenyo-Markin further complained about the manner EOCO also invited members of the Minority Caucus who expressed their dissenting views on national issues.
You have no moral right
Reacting to Afenyo-Markin’s call, the Majority Chief Whip, Rockson-Nelson Dafeamekpor, said the Minority Leader had no right under the sun to request the Speaker to invite the Attorney-General.
Dafeamekpor said the call by Afenyo-Markin appeared to suggest that public officer holders must not be held accountable.
“He has no moral right to suggest that where an investigative body has conducted a year-long investigation into a matter, has invited the suspect and now made prima facie determination and is effecting an arrest that may possibly lead to prosecution, the Minority Leader is on this floor inviting the A-G to come and respond to what?”, he asked.
