Tamale South Schooling Minister and Member of Parliament Haruna Idris stated it was not legislation to make use of denial of bail as a type of punishment for accused individuals.
Talking on the funeral of College of Improvement Research (UDS) lecturer Mahama Shaibu in Tamale on Thursday, Might 28, 2026, he stated: “As a rustic we should uphold the precept of honest trial for all accused individuals.”
Mahama Shaibu is a former broadcast journalist with Multimedia Group Restricted (MGL), reporting from the Northern Area and based mostly in Accra. Pleasure FM He’s a director of the Nationwide Communications Authority (NCA), a private good friend of Haruna Idris, and lectured at UDS after finding out overseas for a few years.
He died on the eve of this 12 months’s Eid al-Adha, shortly after complaining of chest pains whereas driving. He was stated to have gone to purchase sheep for Eid and was on his approach residence on the time of the incident.
Talking throughout a gathering of Islamic prayers as a part of his funeral on Thursday, his private good friend Haruna Idris, former chief (minority chief) of the Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC) caucus in parliament, stated: “At present in Ghana we have now seen overreach, police overreach, court docket overreach, EOCO (Financial and Organized Crime Workplace) overreach, denial of bail, use of bail as punishment for defendants. This isn’t the legislation.”
He stated it’s the data of the Trinity and the legislation of the Trinity that “if we help the proper to a good trial and the proper to be acquitted at trial, we is not going to deny bail to the accused or require the accused to overpay as punishment, given the presumption of innocence of all individuals.”
“I subsequently anticipate that in Ghana at present, high-handedness and overreach in issues referring to bail and its refusal and prosecution should finish,” he stated.
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