The Chief State Attorney has been attacked by persons suspected to be supporters of the New Patriotic Party who besieged the Magistrate Court, Wednesday over the controversial case involving Assin North MP Kennedy Agyapong.
Rexford Wiredu was in a convoy away from the Court when the assailants pelted his car with stones.
He had failed to secure a two week prison remand for the embattled MP who is facing three charges of treason, treason felony and attempted genocide for comments he made on an Accra radio station on Friday.
The state attorney confirmed the attack in an interview with Joy News’ Evans Mensah on Wednesday.
The car suffered dents and Wiredu has reported the attack to the police who have begun with investigations.
He is however unable to identify who the attackers were.
According to Rexford Wiredu, shortly before their departure from the court room, he saw a man write down his car number with others pointing at him as the man prosecuting Kennedy Agyapong.
The men he said followed his convoy.
Whilst he did not sustain any injuries in the attack, Rexford Wiredu said he is facing some psychological turmoil.
He explained the state did not go to prosecute the case at Magistrate’s Court but were seeking to get an indictment and a remand from the court.
He said the move was to meet the tenets of the constitution which said that the state would have to seek the authority of the court to detain the suspect more than the approved 48 hours.
Rexford Wiredu could not however say if he disagreed with court’s decision to wash its hands off the case.
He said however that they will take the case to the High Court.
Joy News Editor Samson Lardy Ayenini, who is himself a lawyer said whilst it is not strange for the state to proceed to an inferior court to indict a suspect and to seek the appropriate forum for prosecution, he is convinced a charge of treason does not follow that procedure.
Quoting the portion of the constitution which talks about treason, Ayenini is of the firm opinion that the prosecution ought to have proceeded to the High Court without going for a “forum shop” at a lower court.