The Minority Leader of Parliament, Alexander Kwamina Afenyo-Markin, has challenged the Ghana Police Service's decision to detain Kwame Baffoe also known as Abronye DCE in the cells of the National Intelligence Bureau (NIB).

Addressing journalists on Friday, September 12, 2025, at the premises of the Accra Circuit Court, Afenyo-Markin argued that the police, who are the body investigating the Bono Regional Chairman of the NPP, have their own cells and should not have sent him to the NIB.

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“The police invited him on Monday the 8th of September. He responded to the invitation by the police, went with his lawyers, submitted himself to interrogations and after an hour of interrogations, he was whisked into NIB custody.

“The question is, why would the police investigating a matter and has its own police cells, decide to send a citizen who is being investigated by them to be held at an NIB cell?” he queried.

Afenyo-Markin also revealed that checks conducted by his team indicate that the NIB is not investigating Abronye, but is nonetheless holding him in their cells, allegedly at the request of the Police Service.

“It must be stated that our checks at the NIB confirms that the NIB is not interrogating Abronye neither are they investigating him. According to the NIB, they are only recipient of the man Abronye,” he said.

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“In other words, the police sent him there that they should keep him; that is why they received him, but they are not the ones who are investigating him. So, the question is, why would Ghana Police Service claim to be investigating a person and rather decide to send him to NIB cells? Is it to punish him or what?” he quizzed.



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