After nearly 5 hours of detention by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP), Private Legal Practitioner Martin Kpebu has been released.
Mr Kpebu was detained on December 3 for obstructing an officer of the Special Prosecutor.
Speaking in an interview with TV3 after his release, Mr Kpebu said his detention was needless.
“I know I have not done anything wrong, so I will be released,” he said.
Mr Kpebu confirmed that he had an altercation with a military officer at the OSP.
“The military officer said I am stupid, and I also said he is stupid. So we exchanged words,” he recalled.
Mr Kpebu reiterated his resolve to petition President Mahama for the removal of Mr Kissi Agyebeng from Office.
“I will petition for his removal. I have 15 allegations against him,” he stated.
Earlier, news broke that the Office of the Special Prosecutor had detained Mr Kpebu at an undisclosed location.
One of his lawyers gave a blow-by-blow account of the circumstances leading to his arrest and subsequent detention by officials of the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP).
According to Mr Marcellinus Biah, the OSP officials charged Mr Kpebu with obstructing an officer of the Special Prosecutor.
Here is a verbatim account as narrated by Mr Biah in an interview on TV3’s News360 on December 3.
“So, this afternoon at about two o’clock, we attended the invitation of the Office of the Special Prosecutor to assist them in investigations. So, while we were at the premises, Martin granted an interview outside the premises of the Office of the Special Prosecutor and returned. So, it appears that one of the officers, that is, the police officer at the gate, was not too happy with Martin granting an interview outside the premises of the Office of the Special Prosecutor. Martin actually told him that, no, there was nothing wrong with him granting an interview and subsequently attending to the inquiry.
He continued, “And so there was some amount of altercation between, verbal exchange between him and the officer. Thereafter, Martin proceeded to attend to the inquiry committee. So while we were, I mean, having discussions with the inquiry committee, in the course of that, they told Martin that he had actually obstructed an officer of the Special Prosecutor, and for that matter, he was going to be charged.
Meanwhile, let me be quick to add that when the altercation took place, Martin was the first to even request to make a complaint against the third officer. But we’re told that the complaint centre was not available to take our complaints. So, Martin proceeded to the inquiry board committee and presented a complaint before them.”
That’s the charge. Yes. So eventually they said he was briefly admitted to bail. In addition to that, he was to present one surety. So, I quickly drove back to the office, which is just about 10 10-minute drive.
They whisked him away. As we speak now, we are unable to tell where Mr Kpebu is.”
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