{"id":1222277,"date":"2022-10-12T10:31:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/freddie-blays-firm-should-not-have-accepted-to-defend-alleged-illegal-miners-obiri-boahen\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T10:31:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:31:19","slug":"freddie-blays-firm-should-not-have-accepted-to-defend-alleged-illegal-miners-obiri-boahen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/12\/freddie-blays-firm-should-not-have-accepted-to-defend-alleged-illegal-miners-obiri-boahen\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Blay&#8217;s firm should not have accepted to defend alleged illegal miners &#8211; Obiri Boahen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/OBIRIb.png\" alt=\"Freddie Blay should not have accepted to defend alleged illegal miners - Obiri Boahen\" class=\" bd-imagestyles-16\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nFreddie Blay should not have accepted to defend alleged illegal miners &#8211; Obiri Boahen <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<h2>In my candid opinion, former Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr Freddie Blay&#8217;s law firm should not have accepted to defend accused persons in\u00a0the ongoing illegal mining case pending before the Accra High Court, Mr Obiri Boahen, a former General Secretary of the NPP has said.<\/h2>\n<p>In a radio interview monitored by Graphic Online on Accra based <em>Okay FM<\/em> on Wednesday morning, Nana Obiri Boahen said Mr Blay&#8217;s firm should have allowed other lawyers to stand in for the accused persons.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday in court,\u00a0<span>Lucy Ekeleba Blay, a private legal practitioner, told the court that she was holding brief for Mr Freddy Blay in the case of the four accomplices of <\/span>En Huang, popularly known as Aisha Huang, who has been charged with the others for engaging illegal mining activities in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The four accomplices are Gao Jin Cheng, Lu Qi Jun, Haibin Go and Zhang Zhipeng.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Freddie Blay is the lead counsel for the firm in which Lucy Ekeleba Blay works.<\/p>\n<p>Already, Mr Blay has clarified that he is not the one who is personally handling the case but confirms that it is the law firm he belongs to that is handling the case.<\/p>\n<p>Related:\u00a0Freddie Blay reacts to his law firm&#8217;s representation of alleged illegal miners<\/p>\n<p><span\/>more to follow&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script type=\"7c44838cd73bc2149c53e4db-text\/javascript\">\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '771749920311523', {}, {agent: 'pljoomla'});\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><script type=\"7c44838cd73bc2149c53e4db-text\/javascript\">(function(d, s, id) {\n\t\t\t\t  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n\t\t\t\t  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n\t\t\t\t  js = d.createElement(s); 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