Lawyer Kwesi Botchway Jnr blasts Deputy A-G on Adu Boahene case

A private legal practitioner, Lawyer Kwesi Botchway Jnr., has taken on the Deputy Attorney-General Dr. Justice Srem-Sai over his recent public expression of confidence in securing a conviction in the ongoing trial involving former National Signals Bureau Director, Kwabena Adu Boahene.

The criticism follows Dr. Srem-Sai’s widely discussed assertion that he “believes they will get a conviction,” a remark that has already generated significant public debate over prosecutorial conduct and the integrity of the judicial process.

In a Facebook post on Saturday, 18th April, 2026, Lawyer Botchway Jnr. dismissed the Deputy Attorney-General’s position, drawing a sharp distinction between legal standards and personal conviction. “Believe is for pastors. Conviction is secured by law, facts and evidence,” he stated, questioning the basis of the prosecution’s confidence.

The lawyer further argued that the optimism expressed by the Deputy Attorney-General is unfounded, insisting that the case itself is fundamentally flawed. According to him, “Your optimism is misplaced. Your case is cramping in court because it was never built on law or fact and should have never come to court.”

Central to his critique is the role of a key prosecution witness. Botchway Jnr. contended that “your material witness, drawn from National Security has destroyed your case under cross examination,” adding that “the record now shows contradictions, evasions and a complete lack of corroboration.”

He also accused the prosecution of prioritizing conviction over due process, warning that such an approach undermines legal ethics. “Your desperation to secure a conviction at all cost, despite glaring weak, disjointed and gaps in evidence is not only unethical but illegal as it offends your prosecutorial duty of candor,” he asserted.

Botchway Jnr. extended his criticism beyond the Deputy Attorney-General to include the Attorney-General, alleging that both officials have failed to recognize flaws in the investigative process. “More troubling, you and your boss, the Attorney-General have still not seen the light from EOCO’s deception in this matter,” he said, further cautioning that “to build a prosecution on compromised investigations, personal hate and tainted evidence is to build on sand.”

In one of the most pointed sections of his statement, the legal practitioner delivered a sweeping assessment of the current leadership of the Attorney-General’s office, claiming that “by every single objective measure ie conviction rate, legal discipline, respect for due process, you and your learned boss appear to be the worst performing in the history of the 4th Republic.”

He concluded by reiterating his central argument on the principles of criminal justice: “Convictions are secured by law, facts and evidence not faith and press optics.”