The Gumah family in Bawku is calling on the Inspector General of Police and the Chief Justice to ensure the arrest and prosecution of a Career magistrate, Paul Alhassan, who presides over the Bawku Magistrate court, for unlawfully granting bail to a suspected murderer, Malik Bugri.
The spokesperson for the family, Edward Kodo Gumah and a father-in-law to be suspected murderer, who spoke to Daily Guide in an interview, said the action of the magistrate is illegal since he knew very well that he had no judicial mandate to grant bail to a murder suspect.
Mr Gumah said he would be highly disappointed in the integrity of Ghana�s Judiciary System, if the magistrate of the Bawku magistrate Court is not apprehended and dealt with for acting contrary to the laws of the land.
According to Mr Gumah, there are strong indications that the alleged murderer�s family might have influenced the magistrate, which might have compelled him to hurriedly grant Malik Bugri, a Two Hundred Ghana Cedis (GH�200) bail, without considering the legal implications.
�I am told that the alleged murderer, after his bail, went back to his village Sinibagu, near GaruTempane, where he went round boasting that he had bought his freedom. I am also told by some witnesses that on one of his boasting rounds, he said he had asked his family members to sell some of his cattle, worth over GH�400 and I suspect strongly that if his claims are true, then he might have indeed used this money to buy his freedom, considering the manner by which he was granted bail�, Edward Kodo Gumah.
Narrating what led to the arrest of the alleged murderer, Mr Gumah, told Daily Guide tat Malik Bugiri was married to his 30-year daughter, the late Ateni Dasoro and lived with her at Sinibagu, near GaruTempane.
According to him, some months ago, information got to him that his daughter, who was then pregnant, had become made and left her matrimonial home. Around that same time, the suspected murderer also vanished from the village, which immediately raised some eyebrow.
A search party was formed to look for the so-called made, pregnant woman and her husband from communities around the Sinibagu village.
Two months after the formation of the search party, some pieces of information from residents of the village revealed that the late Ateni Dasoro was rather murdered.
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