“Afenyo-Markin Must Go Back to Law School” – TOR Officer Fires Over Court Criticism

Godwin Mahama Ayaba, Corporate Affairs Officer at the Tema Oil Refinery, has slammed Minority Leader Alexander Afenyo-Markin for criticizing recent court rulings involving NPP figures, insisting the rulings were grounded in law.

Speaking on the controversy surrounding the arrest and appeal process of Kwame Baffoe on the Kessben Maakye show in Accra, Ayaba argued that the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) had no grounds to accuse the government of political persecution.

“Afenyo-Markin must go back to law school,” Ayaba stated. “The judge ruled based on Section 96 of Act 30 of the 1992 Constitution of Ghana, so why should Afenyo misinterpret this?”

Ayaba also defended the judiciary’s reliance on Section 96 of the Criminal Procedure Act of Ghana, insisting that judges are empowered to apply the law as it stands.

“So long as Section 96 is still in our legal books, the judges have the discretion to use it,” he stressed.
The TOR official further accused the NPP of hypocrisy, claiming the party failed to uphold the same standards while in government.

“If you’re in opposition and behave as if everything was smooth when you were in government, it is hypocritical,” he said.

Ayaba also dismissed claims that Abronye DC was unwell, insisting the NPP communicator is “not sick as claimed” by some NPP officials, citing a Facebook post by the General Secretary of the NPP contrary to claims by some of their officials, and warned that arrests would continue if opposition members “continue to misbehave.”
While admitting he was “not comfortable with some of the arrests,” he maintained that incitement and defamatory comments could not be justified under democratic governance.