Security consultant and analyst, Richard Kumadoe, has condemned what he describes as the bastardisation of security officers by political parties in the course of performing their statutory functions.
He says the usual criticism faced by security officials after arresting people, particularly politically exposed persons, is not right, asking those who have issues with the approach to seek redress at the law courts.
Mr. Kumadoe, speaking on the BigIssue segment on the NewDay morning show on TV3 on Monday, July 13, 2026, indicated that security agencies do not make arrests in vacuum, but only when a group or an individual has been cited in a probe or is of interest in an ongoing investigation.
“If anybody feels that the law enforcement officers have done something wrong, the reasonable course of action is to challenge it in court. But nobody will be arrested when there is no cause. You’ll always be arrested when you’ve have come under crime investigation or a notice of person of interest,” he stated.
The security analyst added that how a person is arrested does not lie in the mouths of politicians, challenging people with concerns to go to court.
According to him, although politicians have always questioned the modus of arrest of their members over the years, they have never won any case over their rights being abused during such arrests.
“…and whenever you are arrested, how you are arrested is not in the mouth of politicians to say it. Always we’ve heard this whole thing about models of operandi and a rambo-style and nobody has prescribed any other way and nobody has said my client’s rights have been abused in the cause of arresting.
“We’ve seen this pattern over the years when people are arrested, we bastardize the law enforcement officers for doing their statutory work and nobody has sued any of them and won in court because they’ve breached the rights of somebody they have arrested,” he added.
His comments follow the Economic and Organised Crime Office’s (EOCO) arrest of Dennis Miracles Aboagye, an aide to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) flagbearer, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.
Aboagye was allegedly picked up at the Accra International Airport on Saturday night, July 11, 2026.
In a post on his Facebook same day, Justin Kodua Frimpong, General Secretary of the NPP, alleged that EOCO arrested their party member with assistance of immigration officials where he was taken into custody.
Mr. Kodua Frimpong added that Aboagye’s lawyers were denied access to him, while his whereabouts remain unknown. He further alleged that no charges have been filed against him.
Citing provisions of Article 14(2) of the 1992 Constitution on the rights of persons in custody, the NPP General Secretary called on authorities to grant Mr. Aboagye unrestricted access to his lawyers and family.
According to him, the arrest is an intimidation rather than a lawful enforcement action, alleging it forms part of a pattern of politically motivated invitations, arrests and detentions targeting members of the party.
He advised against state institutions against being used as political tools to score political vendettas, admonishing public agencies to operate within the limits of the law and uphold constitutional protections.
Meanwhile, the party is demanding the release of Mr. Aboagye, indicating its readiness to besiege the premises of EOCO to demand explanation over his arrest.
EOCO hasn’t invited nor informed Miracles of any wrongdoing – Nana B
