Amnesty International has started looking into concerns of abuse by family of the prime suspect in the murder of the former Upper East regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Adams Mahama.
This follows a petition by the suspect’s family to the Human Rights Organization over the abuse of his right.
They say his continues incarceration despite having been granted bail by the court is a clear violation of his right.
The family is alleging among other things that the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in whose custody Gregory is, intends to kill him.
The Country Director of Amnesty International, Robert Akoto Amoafo in an interview with Accra based tells Starr fm monitored by radiogoldlive.com says his group has started its probe to ascertain the authenticity of the claims made by the family of the suspect.
“Before we can mention whether it has merit or not as a human rights institution we would have to check the facts. We are currently arranging to do some fact checks to go to the field and check that all the claims that have been mentioned in the petition are as has happened. We know according to the law if once the Judge has given bail, once anybody meets the condition of bail and the state has no reason for keeping the person and the state still keeps the person then there’s a problem. We need to find out why and follow up and make sure that the state is doing as it has already agreed and has signed up to in international standards and also in our constitution.”
Story by: Nancy Obimpeh/radiogoldlive.com/Ghana
