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President and Founder of the Legal Advocacy Foundation, Lawyer Maurice Ampaw has questioned Ghana Police on why they failed to call Black Stars skipper Asamaoh Gyan for questioning on Castro’s missing saga before leaving the shores of the country.
Speaking on Radio Univers, lawyer Ampaw said Asamoah Gyan and all his friends who went on the trip should be treated as suspects of the case but not as innocent souls. He told Brain Stormer, host of the mid-morning show that Asamoah Gyan and his friends should not be called for interrogation “unless we say that disappearance and missing of a person is not a crime, therefore when somebody disappears, we just go and look for the person but we don’t suspect anybody. Then it’s not a criminal matter so the police will not come in here”
He continued that “but once you go out with a friend and the friend disappears, we are not saying that you are responsible for his disappearance but for criminal investigation purposes, you have to suspect somebody.”
“You call them to write their statement and you let them go. If there is anything and you need their assistance then you call them again but if you don’t treat them as suspects, you presume that they are too innocent therefore you cannot interrogate them.” he noted.
The president and Founder of the Legal Advocacy Foundation revealed that he has been informed that the police did not invite Asamoah Gyan before he left Ghana to Dubai to join his football club, Al Ain.
“Per my information, they (police) did not take a statement from him. Now what the police is trying to tell us is that Asamoah Gyan and all those who went there with Castro are totally innocent. Now the police is telling us that people’s disappearance amount to searching and there is no suspicion of crime”
Comparing the police’s failure to call Asamoah Gyan for questioning to Bull Dog’s arrest about the death of Fennec Okyere, , Lawyer Maurice Ampaw noted that “Bull Dog just sent a message to Fennec, there was no link or whatsoever that Bull Dog caused the death of Fennec but what did the police do, they called the arrest of Bull Dog and treated him as a suspect. It took the intervention of a lawyer to fight for bail”
“Why, is Asamoah Gyan above the law? Are Baffour Gyan, Jone Boye and all those people who went with Castro and Janet above the law? Why apply the law differently? Lawyer Maurice Ampaw asked.
He expressed his disappointment in the police on how they are treating Castro’s disappearance and further added hiplife artiste Akoo Nana to the tall list of personalities who should be called for questioning about Castro’s saga.
Lawyer Ampaw advised the public to stop insulting him and seek legal advice on cases such as this.
“Those who are insulting me on social media networks, I want to let them know that they are the people we are fighting for. If what they can do is to insult people when issues of this nature come up, then they are not contributing to national development, they are rather a liability to the nation. When somebody comes up with his legal opinion and you have nothing to share, keep quiet or seek a legal opinion as well.”
Source: Zionfelix.com