Ahead of committal proceedings, police prosecutors on November 6 put ACP Dr Emmanuel Agordzo before the Kaneshie District Court to seek his remand as it raced against time in meeting the 48-hour constitutional provision. “What the judge ruled was that as a committal court, it can only remand. Although he said the law requires treasonable cases to start from the district courts with committal proceedings that does not cloaked the lower court the authority be making a decision to remand an accused person going through committal proceedings. “Committal proceedings are started in the district court [but] committal proceedings are differently different from application for bail,” he stated. According to the prosecution the accused person held several meetings with the leadership of the Take Action Ghana group who are currently in custody.

Source: GhanaWeb November 09, 2019 12:20 UTC