The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dominic Ayine, has withdrawn all charges against former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, and the party’s former Deputy Communications Officer, Anthony Kwaku Boahen. This decision marks the end of a lengthy legal battle that began in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two former officials were accused of conspiracy to cause harm and assault on public officers after a leaked audio recording surfaced, allegedly capturing them planning violent acts against the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Peace Council (NPC). However, they pleaded not guilty to these charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The withdrawal of charges was announced through a statement signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa. This development brings closure to a high-profile case that had sparked significant political tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Government Drops Charges Against Ofosu Ampofo and Anthony Kwaku Boahen<\/p>\n
The Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Dominic Ayine, has withdrawn all charges against former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, and the party’s former Deputy Communications Officer, Anthony Kwaku Boahen. This decision marks the end of a lengthy legal battle that began in December 2019.<\/p>\n
The two former officials were accused of conspiracy to cause harm and assault on public officers after a leaked audio recording surfaced, allegedly capturing them planning violent acts against the Electoral Commission (EC) and the National Peace Council (NPC). However, they pleaded not guilty to these charges.<\/p>\n
The withdrawal of charges was announced through a statement signed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Atakora Obuobisa. This development brings closure to a high-profile case that had sparked significant political tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-latest","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5530,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5526\/revisions\/5530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}