Public Agenda

The Public Agenda in a front page lead story says in yet another move aimed at securing the freedom of their client, accused of conspiring to overthrow the Ghana government, lawyers of Ex- Sergeant Karim Salifu Adam, are asking the Supreme Court to hear an appeal filed last year against the decision to retry him for treason. The paper says Adam has been in prison since 1994 when he was arrested for allegedly attempting to overthrow the government by violent means. The Public Agenda says last year, a new panel of judges of an Accra High Court which first tried Adam ordered that he should be tried again after presiding judge died at the end of the trial before the verdict could be announced. It says lawyers representing Adam say they do not find it proper for their client to be retried or kept in prison for all these years.