Dr John Apea, the Head of Missions at the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council and Board Member of the Commonwealth Human Rights Office for Africa, has once again reiterated calls for presidential clemency for William Ato Essien.
According to Dr. Apea Ato Essien is now wheelchair-bound, suffering from a spinal injury sustained while in custody.
Speaking in an X Space on Sunday, Dr. Apea stated, “As it stands now, Ato is not receiving the necessary medical care that a prison facility or within the prison walls that he needs, you know?”
“So that’s why, for me, the clemency is the biggest thing I’m most interested in now, court, case, capital, bank, all that stuff. I don’t want to meddle in politics either. Let the lawyer deal with that one step at a time”.
He added, “But for now, we have to look at what the real issue is. The real issue is that here’s our father, here’s our brother, here’s our son who can’t take care of himself in prison because he’s in ill health.
Do we leave him there? Is that rehabilitation, or is that a death penalty? We don’t have capital punishment for financial crimes in Ghana, but is this a silent execution that we are putting people who are ill through? I don’t think that should be the case,” he said.
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