The counsel for the arrested members of pro-NPP vigilante group, "Delta Force", lawyer Matthew Appiah says the public including the Ghana Bar Association (GBA) is too quick to condemn "Delta Force" in the uproar which happened at the Kumasi Circuit Court on last Thursday.
According to him, apportioning blame to "Delta Force" for the upheaval is out of place as it was the sole responsibility of the state security to protect the court including the judge and the people at the court room.
Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, lawyer Matthew Appiah insisted the blame should be laid squarely at the failure of the state security as they could have determined reaction and control the crowd in such a crucial case.
“To me, whatever happened at the court, nobody should condemn 'Delta Force'. It is the failure of the state security; the blame should be laid squarely at the failure of the state security because how do you determine the reaction of the crowd at such a crucial case like this? Crowd control is everywhere and the police should have known this is a potential case,” he stressed.
He however urged the critics to disassociate politics from the incident just to score political points by blaming the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the party behind the commotion which took place at the Circuit court.
“Nobody should blame anybody and say that NPP is behind the incidence at the court; that shouldn’t be the case. Whose duty was it to make sure that the court was protected? And if anything happens, do you go and blame a political party for it? They have brought their people to court to face trial; the court protection is not the responsibility of the political party. It is the police that should protect the court,” he argued.
He added that the IGP did well by admitting that the police did not do its work well to ensure peace and orderliness at the court; thus “if they had done the right thing, this thing should not have happened.”
“It should be the responsibility of the state security to make sure that the court, judge, the people who come to court and everybody is protected. That is why if you go to court, we have CWO who must make sure the judge is protected including the lawyers because our lives are at risk . . . the police should sit up,” he pointed out.
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The Lawyer is also a ''SIANO '' lol. They can only ***barred word*** in that Region and not the City. Kwashiyaa saane
In as much as I condemn the behavior of the Delta Forces, in another way I will clap for them for testing the protection rules of our judges and court premises. I know that hence fort our court premises and Judges are going to be welly protected.
Ho Ho Ho. What a fine lawyer is Matthew Appiah. If I was a burglar and was caught robbing a house I would certainly employ Mr Appiah to defend me. He would say the fault was the house owner that I robbed. He should have had anti robber things in his house to stop me entering his house and robbing him. How beautiful with words is lawyer Appiah.
codify lawyer lol
am disappointed in this man called a lawyer...his just an ***barred word***
It all started when the Ghana Police decided to be so unprofessional. You have the National Police who is doing the bidding of any particular party in power at a time. Victimising and neglecting the general public who does not belong to the party in power. We have liars filled the leadership position of Ghana Police at any time with the National PRO Cephas Arthur being the biggest liar of them all. Yet no one sees this but they all talk about only the fruits that the situations bear including the so called Security Experts speaking to the media. The Black African lacks anything that has got to do with brains. Elsewhere, there would be serious findings and solutions to this. But listen To news from Ghana Parliament and it is filled with the F00OLISHNESS of Ayariga. We have 36% literacy rate in Ghana but just scan through some of the comments from this 36% and you can tell F00OLISHNESS is the key to most people. Until the Black Man will seek to eliminate problems from the root; they will continue to live in poverty. It's April, soon the rains will come and all you will hear is "the aban should help us". And the media houses such as Peace FM will send reporters and talk about the dead and ask about which of the Government Officials had been there. Utterly Nkwa-sia-sem!!! Thumps up for KSK tho for his good works.
Another kumasi lawyer. what do you expect?
The word is remand not remind. Remanding not reminding. Thanks.
THE DELTA FORCE MUST BE SET FREE. THERE IS NO WISDOM TO TROUBLE THE DELTA FORCE MEMBERS. THEY ONLY TESTED THE SECURITY CONDITION TO SHOW TO ALL IN GHANA THAT THERE IS SO MUCH LAPSES IN OUR SECURITY SET UP. IN THE FIRST PLACE IF THE MAN APPOINTED TO BE THE COORDINATOR OF SECURITY IN THE ASHANTI REGION DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH SECURITY INTELLIGENCE TO STOP THE ATTACK ON HIS PERSON WHAT BUSINESS DOES HE HAVE IN THE SECURITY OF THE REGION. SECONDLY THE SUCCESS OF THE DELTA FORCE TO DISRUPT COURT PROCEEDINGS AND FREED THEIR COLLEAGUES IS ANOTHER SLAM ON THE SECURITY DETAIL FOR OUR COURT SYSTEM. THE SUCCESS OF BOTH ACTIONS OF THE DELTA FORCE IS AN EYEOPENING TO THE SECURITY CONDITION IN THE REGION AND THE NATION AT LARGE. THEY HAVE ONLY SHOWN TO US ABOUT THE REALITY OF THE SECURITY DETAILS IN THE COUNTRY. NOBODY SHOULD TROUBLED THE VERY PEOPLE WHO HAVE SHOWN TO THE NATION THE PRECARIOUS CONDITION OF OUR SECURITY DETAILS. BECAUSE OF THEIR ACTION THE STATE SECURITY WOULD NOW TAKE PRECAUTION TO GATHER ENOUGH INTELLIGENCE TO AVERT ANY DANGER AND ATTACK ON OUR IMPORTANT PERSONALITIES AND INSTITUTION IN THE FUTURE. THE SECURITY COMMANDERS AND THEIR FORCES SHALL NO MORE TAKE THINGS FOR GRANTED BUT WORK HARD TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. THIS TIME THE DELTA FORCE LAWYER MUST PAY ME FOR THIS CONSULTANCY. I HAVE WORK FOR FREE FOR FAR TOO LONG.
You guys said they not members of the NPP Delta force, but were picked at a suburb in Kumasi, then what business did NPPs Wuntumi have by engaging Lawyers all the way from Accra to defend the 8 suspects all the way in Kumasi, this was confirmed by Lawyer Garry Nimako on this Asempa fm this evening.