By Kay Cudjoe
How are you, Counsel? I ask not out of courtesy but curiosity. Because the last time we met on my comment section, you, Akbar Yussif Rohullah Khomeini, Esq., came charging with your legal artillery and discovered too late that you had brought a water pistol to Donetsk.
When I shared the story of Dr Mustapha Abdul Hamid’s NPA scandal, you marched in, robe flapping, ready to educate the uninitiated. You accused me of writing illusions, insisted I had not seen the charge sheet, declared that your client faced five counts, and warned me to read before writing.
Then I revealed it, page one of a forty one page charge sheet. Fifty four counts. Ten accused. Amounts spelled out in cedis and dollars. You saw it and froze, like a soldier who fired too early and realised his gun was empty.
You tried to recover with jandam, but it was too late. The record spoke louder than your tone. You were rehearsing outrage, not defence.
When cornered, you said, “We do not aggregate offences and exposures.” True, in court each count stands alone. But the public deserves to understand the whole picture. The civic space deals with the anatomy of a case, not just the autopsy of one count.
You lectured me about beneficial ownership, waving the concept like a secret scroll. Yet the OSP’s charge sheet itself lists corporate entities charged alongside individuals. Under Ghana’s Anti-Money Laundering Act, 2020 (Act 1044) and relevant provisions of the Companies Act, 2019 (Act 992), both a company and its directors or officers can be held jointly liable for offences committed in the course of the company’s operations. You do not need a neon sign reading beneficial ownership. The law already provides the wiring.
And then, when facts failed, you reached for threats. “The writs will come,” you said, as if law were a thunderstorm and you held the clouds. But thunder without rain is theatre. Writers do not fear weather, we forecast it.
Now the OSP itself has spoken. The amended charges confirm what you dismissed as illusion. Dr Abdul Hamid stands accused of conspiracy to commit extortion, multiple counts of using public office for profit, and money laundering. The alleged scheme, over GH₵291 million and US$332,000, is not a rumour. It is filed, paginated, and pending before a court of competent jurisdiction. Assets worth over GH₵100 million are under seizure.
So again, Counsel, how are you?
Because from where I sit, it seems the facts have aged badly for your bravado. The pen you mocked has outlasted your sarcasm, and the law you cited in arrogance has turned around to cite you in irony.
Next time, read before you roar. The battlefield of ideas rewards precision, not posture. And if you must come again, come armed with facts, not a water pistol.
Kay Codjoe
