Member of Parliament for Sissala West, Mohammed Adams Sukparu, has urged the legal team of former National Food Buffer Stock Company CEO, Abdul Hannan Wahab, to avoid politicising the bail conditions set by the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), and instead seek redress through the courts.
Speaking on Channel One TV’s Breakfast Daily on Tuesday, July 1, Sukparu emphasised that suspects who consider bail terms excessive have the legal right to apply for a variation.
“When you are detained and granted bail, and you think the bail condition is too much for you to provide, you can go to court for it to vary,” he explained.
He cautioned against turning the matter into a political debate, stressing the need to allow EOCO to carry out its investigations without interference.
“I will use this opportunity to urge the lawyers that we should not do politics with it. They should use the right thing, which is the court, to seek the variation so that they can grant them bail for EOCO to also continue with its investigation,” he said.
His comments come in the wake of the arrest of Abdul Hannan Wahab and his wife during a coordinated EOCO operation in Accra and Tamale on Wednesday, June 25, 2025.
The two are being investigated for alleged offences including tax evasion, money laundering, and causing financial loss to the state.
Mr. Wahab was granted bail of GHS 50 million with two sureties, both to be justified, while his wife received a GHS 30 million bail under similar terms.