Lawyers of Akwasi Osei Adjei, the former Foreign Minister, have sworn an affidavit before an Appeals Court, accusing the deputy Attorney-General, Ebo Barton-Odro, of peddling falsehood and making deliberate misrepresentations of the facts of a human rights case pending before the court.
The affidavit noted that Ebo Barton-Odro had told the court that he had applied for, but had not yet received a copy of a High Court Order that the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) should release the passport of Mr Osei-Adjei.
According to the lawyers, various search conducted at the Registry of the court showed that �;it is utterly untrue that the Attorney-General�s Department had applied for a copy of the ruling by the court as at the time the Deputy Attorney-General appeared before this Honourable court and made the statements.�
When Ebo Barton-Odro made the said claim before the Appeals court, he was able to get the court to adjourn the case indefinitely to enable the Attorney-General�s department get a certified copy of the ruling in question.
The lawyers noted in the affidavit that what the deputy Attorney-General did was a �deliberate misrepresentation of the fact� and �that the falsehood apparent from the statements by the learned Deputy Attorney General clearly epitomizes the falsehood with which all the depositions in the Applicant�s affidavit is laced, and was a deliberate attempt to frustrate the hearing of the instant application.
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