ACQUITTED, GAOLED
(N JS.P. A.-Reuter—Copyright) ACCRA, December 10. Ghana’s Interior Minister, Mr Kwaku Boateng, said today that the three principal defendants acquitted art the treason trial yesterday will remain in detention under the Preventive Detention Act. The three men are the former Foreign Minister, Ako Adjei; the former Information Minister, Tawiah Adamaflo; and the former executive secretary of the ruling Convention People’s Party, H. Cofie Crabbe—were found not guilty of treason. “They will continue under detention until the orders made against them have expired according to law,” the Interior Minister said. Preventive detention orders last up to five years and can be renewed for further periods of five years. The Attorney-General, Mr Kwawswanzy, told a press conference he disagreed with the Court’s judgment on legal grounds. He said the judgment made a "mockery of justice” and added: t would have been better to acquit all five accused or convict the whole lot." Two other accused, Robert Benjamin Otchere, a former opposition member of Parliament, and Yaw Manu, a former civil servant, were convicted on charges of treason and conspiracy to commit treason and were sentenced to death.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30312, 12 December 1963, Page 9
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