Samuel Atta Akyea, lawyer for former National Signals Bureau (NSB) Director-General, Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has boldly declared that they are going to tear the prosecution’s case into shreds.
According to Atta Akyea, they will not invent one false story but will base their arguments strictly on verifiable facts.
Speaking after the court proceedings on April 2, 2026, Samuel Atta Akyea stated, “We will not invent one false story against the Economic and Organised Crime Office and, by extension, the Attorney General. Everything we are doing in this case will be dangerously factual so that nobody will say this is Atta Akyea’s or Kwabena Adu-Boahene’s invention”.
“So, we’re not worried at all. At the end of the day, we will tear the prosecution’s case into shreds,” he added.
“She went there as a national security operative to pay cheques. It has an account name and number, and it isn’t Adu-Boahene’s private account or number. So, what comical joke is this that Adu-Boahene has taken money from the state and hidden it in a private account and was enjoying it?” he questioned.
It will be recalled that Kwabena Adu Boahene, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng, and one other have been charged by the state for stealing, defrauding by false pretences, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit a crime.
According to the charge sheet, Kwabena Adu Boahene and his wife stole state funds to the tune of GHc 49 million.
The Attorney General, Dr Dominic Ayine, filed 11 charges against Kwabena Adu-Boahene and three others at the High Court in Accra.
In court some weeks ago, the Supreme Court dismissed Adu Boahene’s legal team’s motion to prohibit Justice John Eugene Nyante Nyadu from presiding over the $49 million case.
The apex court unanimously dismissed the application to prohibit the presiding judge in the Kwabena Adu-Boahene trial from further hearing the case on grounds of bias.
The 5-member panel of justices of the apex court held that the application was without merit and did not meet the requirements to prohibit the trial judge.
Earlier, the Supreme Court has dismissed the Attorney-General’s application for a review in the case involving former National Signals Bureau boss, Kwabena Adu Boahene.
According to reports, the Supreme Court, in a 6–1 majority decision, dismissed an application by the Attorney-General seeking a review of its earlier ruling on criminal disclosures.
The verdict was delivered by Justice Yonny Kulendi, the lone dissenting opinion.
Reports by Joy News stated, “The Attorney-General argued that by effectively removing the word “relevance” from the disclosure framework without substituting it with an equivalent standard, the Supreme Court had, in practical terms, rewritten the law on criminal disclosure.
He contended that the decision risked narrowing disclosure obligations to mere possession of documents, without sufficient regard to whether the materials sought had a meaningful bearing on the issues before the court.
Represented by Deputy Attorney-General Dr Justice Srem-Sai, the Attorney-General urged the Court to either restore the word “relevance” in its ordinary sense or replace it with language such as “connected with the matter before the court”, in order to preserve a clear nexus between requested materials and the subject of the trial. He maintained that without such clarification, the disclosure regime could be applied too restrictively, to the detriment of fair trial standards”.
Justice Lovelace Johnson, who presided, Justice Amadu Tanko, Justice Yonny Kulendi, Justice Senyo Dzamefe, Justice Richard Adjei-Frimpong, Justice Sir Dennis Agyei, and Justice Kwaku Tawiah Ackaah-Boafo were the panel members who determined the matter.
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