A member of the legal team of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Abraham Amaliba has chided reports suggesting Samuel Adam Mahama has been issued a red alert in connection with the Airbus bribery scandal.
Describing the claims as “ridiculous” and a “hoax”, he said interpol only issue red alert to persons who are running away from criminal proceedings in a particular jurisdiction.
“It is issued for people who run away from the criminal justice system from a country and I am asking a simple question has Adam run away from the system?. So I am attacking the procedure and I am saying that it is wrong in law, it is not done that way,” he said on the Morning Starr on Friday.
He further explained that, “checks have revealed that this alert is not on the website, all red alerts are on the website…and so I am telling you that it is improper, it is wrong, it is a hoax and it is meant to please the government of the day to look as if president Mahama benefited from whatever is alleged that Adam Mahama engaged in.”
Samuel Adam Mahama, if found guilty is expected to spend not more than 25 years in jail for “accepting a bribe to influence a public officer” and “acting in collaboration with a public officer for the public officer’s private profit.”
Source: GhanaFeed.com