Obinim’s “melodrama” arranged to over shadow Montie 3 chronicle – Atta Akyea

The entire “melodrama” involving Bishop Daniel Obinim is a strategy by the powers that be to dissuade the attention of Ghanaians from the Montie 3 epic, counsel for Bishop Daniel Obinim, Mr Samuel Atta Akyea, disclosed to Class FM

Bishop Obinim was arrested on Tuesday by the Criminal Investigations Department of the Ghana Police Service for defrauding a man to a tune of GHS11.6 million in gold earnings. Hundreds of his church members have massed up at the Nima Police station to demand his release.

 Lawyer for the accused Mr. Samuel Atta Akyea, however, has expressed uncertainties about how his client is being treated as a “common criminal” to overshadow the “topical” Montie 3 saga in which President John Mahama remitted the remainder of the four-month jail term of contemnors Alistair Nelson, Godwin Ako Gunn and Salifu Maase (Mugabe).

“What was very sad for me was that a man who has voluntarily gone to the police station and you handcuff him, you could see today he’s been at the front pages of the Ghanaian Times and the Daily Graphic as if the nation hasn’t got anything serious to discuss, as if they need this kind of pictures to overshadow the Montie FM issues and I’m embarrassed by it, I don’t think that the nation should stoop that low, we have more serious things to look at, not Obinim’s matters.”

According to the Lawyer,  fraud allegations are ordinary issues which need not be gusted out of proportion for propaganda purposes. “They are normal things, if you’ve practiced criminal law before, they are very normal, fraud and even murder, so if you look at priority and what is important to Ghana, do not make normal things extraordinary, if you did that then you have a motive.”

“If you look at what is topical, it’s as if this is supposed to overshadow issues concerning the pardoning of these individuals [Montie 3] so, please this is my view and I think they’ve made it too melodramatic. A man who is known and notorious should be handcuffed, what for, where is running to? Do you know who is supposed to be handcuffed? The hardened criminals who they’ve been searching for years and when they are so arrested, for fear that they might bolt, they handcuff them, so what is the drama about, what is it that somebody is trying to secure? I don’t understand.”

According to the counsel for the accused, even if “due process was followed” in carrying out the arrest of his client, “the drama and propaganda was needless.” “You don’t handcuff somebody who you know is decent, that’s what it is, He is not a hardened criminal to be handcuffed and then used on the front pages of newspapers as if this is the most important issue that happened to Ghana. Treating him like common criminal is not dignifying,” he cautioned 

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