Godfred Yeboah Dame, the legal representative for the former NAFCO CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab, has maintained there is no freeze order on the account of his client.
Dame once again asserted that there is no evidence of an attempt to withdraw funds or empty the bank account of ex-Buffer Stock CEO, challenging the AG to provide any evidence.
In a press release issued by Dame & Partners, Lawyers for Hanan Abdul-Wahab, former Buffer Stock CEO, read, “The attention of the firm of Messrs. Dame & Partners has been drawn to a press statement issued by the Office of the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice on 7th July, 2026, purporting to further justify the unlawful arrest and detention of Mr. Hanan Abdul-Wahab (our client), on Saturday, 4th July, 2026, after he had been granted leave by the order of the High Court, Accra to travel to the United Kingdom.
The said press statement was fraught with grave misrepresentation of facts calculated to tarnish the reputation of our client and consistent with disparaging comments the Attorney-General frequently makes about our client at his press conferences and on social media. To protect our client’s hard-earned image, we draw attention to the following facts.
1. The allegation by the Attorney-General that he had filed an application to review the order granting our client leave to travel out of the jurisdiction as at yesterday, 7th July, 2026, was untrue. Our checks revealed that the Attorney-General proceeded to file the said application at the Registry of the Court only today, 8th July, 2026 at 1.30 pm.
2. All the allegations contained in the press statement of the Attorney-General are false and constitute a ploy “after the facts” to rationalise the unlawful arrest and detention of our client.
3. To date, our client has neither been charged nor put before a court of law on any of the allegations the Attorney-General made in his press statement.
4. Our client has not made any false or unlawful attempt to empty any frozen bank account. He considers a repetition of this allegation as part of the tendency of the Attorney-General to defame him. Our client has not been shown any evidence of any attempted withdrawal of funds by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) or the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) which arrested him.
5. Our client arrived at the Accra International Airport when he had neither withdrawn any money nor presented any cheque or document seeking to withdraw any money from the bank. We repeat our demand for the Attorney-General to produce evidence of a cheque, withdrawal note or any means by which our client attempted to withdraw money from his bank account, or the attempt to do so.
6. We repeat that in any event, there is no valid order of any court of competent jurisdiction freezing our client’s accounts since the earlier freezing orders made in respect of his earlier prosecution had lapsed.
7. Our client considers his arrest totally unfair, an abuse of power by the Attorney-General, EOCO and BNI, and a deliberate scheme to disobey the order of the High Court, Accra.
Meanwhile, The Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Justice Srem Sai, has told the court that former NAFCO CEO Hanan Abdul-Wahab presented a court order that defroze landed properties to the bank as if it also covered his frozen bank accounts, in an attempt to withdraw the funds.
According to the Deputy AG, Hanan falsely presented a defreezing order of landed properties to the bank as defreezing order of bank accounts.
The development follows Deputy Attorney-General, Dr Justice Srem Sai, disclosing that the former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, has been arrested at the Accra International Airport after allegedly trying to illegally withdraw money from his frozen Republic Bank account.
According to Dr Justice Srem Sai, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba was arrested after an attempt to use “false means” to access funds in a frozen bank account.
Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba is currently on trial for stealing and causing financial loss to the state and had been granted permission by the High Court to travel to the United Kingdom for a few days.
Dr Justice Srem Sai disclosed that although the court had allowed him to travel to the UK, he will ask the court on Monday to cancel that permission.
In an X post on Saturday, July 4, Dr Sai wrote, “Law enforcement officers have, a while ago, arrested Mr HANAN ABDUL-WAHAB ALUDIBA at the Accra International Airport.
MR ALUDIBA, who is currently standing trial for stealing and causing financial loss to the Republic, was granted leave by the trial High Court to travel to the UK for a few days.
It was, however, MR ALUDIBA’s attempt to use false means to empty his frozen bank account with Republic Bank on Thursday which occasioned tonight’s arrest.
The learned Attorney-General will, on Monday, seek a review of the court order which granted MR ALUDIBA leave to travel out of the country”.
See the statement below:
