In the corridors where law and public perception collide, Samuel Atta Akyea, counsel for former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, stepped forward on September 10 to reclaim the narrative — rejecting social media reports of his withdrawal as fabrication and reaffirming his commitment to a case that has grown as contentious in the court of opinion as in the court of law. At the heart of the dispute lies a contested document, admitted into evidence without objection yet now challenged by the prosecution, whose authenticity has become both a legal flashpoint and a sourc
Atta Akyea Denies Abandoning NSB Director-General in High-Profile Trial
The court is the forum where evidence and law should settle vexed matters
Mark
So Akyea's saying the document was already admitted into evidence. If that's true, why is the prosecution now claiming it's fake?
Mimi
That's the tension. Once something is admitted without objection, the legal ground shifts. Akyea's point is that the prosecution had the chance to challenge it then and didn't. Raising it now looks like a different kind of move.
Luke
But we should be careful here. We have Akyea's version of what happened in court. We don't have the prosecution's explanation for why they're raising it now, or what their evidence of forgery actually is. The source material doesn't give us that.
Mark
Fair. So what's the "submission of no case" he's talking about?
Mimi
It's a legal argument that says the prosecution hasn't presented enough evidence to even require the defence to mount a full defence. If the judge agrees, the case ends there.
Luke
And Akyea says he's confident about it. But again—we're hearing from the defence lawyer. We don't know what the prosecution thinks their case looks like or how strong they believe it is.
Mark
He also says the case was launched as a "media trial." What does that mean?
Mimi
He's saying the public narrative was built before the legal facts were established. That the case became a story before it became evidence. He wants it judged on law and evidence, not on what people believe from reading social media.
Luke
That's a real complaint, and it's worth reporting. But it's also a common defence strategy—to frame the trial as unfair or prejudiced. We should note that without endorsing it or dismissing it.
Mark
So the real question is still open: Is the document actually fake?
Mimi
Completely open. And that's what the court will have to decide.
Luke
Exactly. Akyea's denial of abandonment is clear. The evidence dispute is real. But the underlying facts about the document itself—we don't have those yet.
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- Social media reports claiming Akyea had abandoned his client spread rapidly, threatening to destabilize public confidence in the defence at a critical moment in the trial.
- The prosecution's challenge to the authenticity of a key defence document introduced fresh uncertainty into proceedings, fuelling speculation that the defence team was in disarray.
- Akyea struck back forcefully, dismissing the withdrawal claims as 'wretched and vile propaganda' and insisting the disputed document had been lawfully admitted into evidence without any prosecution objection at the time.
- The defence is now preparing a formal submission of no case — a high-stakes legal manoeuvre that, if accepted, would collapse the prosecution's case before the defence presents a single witness.
- Akyea's statement drew a firm line: the authenticity of evidence and the integrity of the law are matters for Justice Francis Apangabuno Achibanga's courtroom, not for social media timelines.
In the corridors where law and public perception collide, Samuel Atta Akyea, counsel for former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, stepped forward on September 10 to reclaim the narrative — rejecting social media reports of his withdrawal as fabrication and reaffirming his commitment to a case that has grown as contentious in the court of opinion as in the court of law. At the heart of the dispute lies a contested document, admitted into evidence without objection yet now challenged by the prosecution, whose authenticity has become both a legal flashpoint and a source of public speculation. Akyea's response is a reminder that in serious criminal proceedings, the noise of the crowd and the weight of the law are not the same thing.
When reports began circulating on social media that Samuel Atta Akyea had walked away from his client's case, the defence lawyer moved swiftly to shut them down. In a statement issued on September 10, Akyea called the claims "wretched and vile propaganda" and made unambiguously clear that he remained fully committed to representing former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene.
The speculation appeared to be tied to a dispute over a document central to the defence — one the prosecution has since challenged on grounds of authenticity. The suggestion online was that Akyea might distance himself rather than defend a potentially compromised piece of evidence. He rejected that framing entirely, pointing out that the document had been admitted into the record before Justice Francis Apangabuno Achibanga without any objection from the prosecution at the time of its presentation. In his view, that procedural fact carries weight.
Beyond the document dispute, Akyea expressed broader frustration with what he described as a prosecution conducted partly through media pressure — a climate, he argued, where "lies sell." He insisted that questions of evidence and law must be resolved in the courtroom, not adjudicated through social media.
The defence, he said, is preparing a "very solid and credible submission of no case" — a legal argument that, if successful, would see the charges against Adu-Boahene, co-defendant Angela Adjei Boateng, and Advantage Solutions Ltd. dismissed before the defence is even required to present its full case. His message was pointed: the defence is not retreating, and it believes the prosecution's case may not survive scrutiny.
Samuel Atta Akyea, the lawyer representing former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene, moved quickly on September 10 to push back against a narrative spreading across social media: that he had walked away from his client's case. In a statement, he called the reports "wretched and vile propaganda" and made clear he had no intention of stepping aside.
The timing of his denial matters. The case against Adu-Boahene, along with co-defendant Angela Adjei Boateng and the company Advantage Solutions Ltd., has become entangled in a dispute over evidence. The prosecution has challenged the authenticity of a document the defence relies on—a challenge that apparently triggered speculation online that Akyea might abandon the case rather than defend a potentially compromised piece of evidence. Akyea rejected that logic entirely.
According to Akyea, the disputed document was admitted into evidence without any objection from the prosecution at the time it was presented before Justice Francis Apangabuno Achibanga, the additional High Court judge overseeing the trial. That procedural history, in his view, matters. The document had been accepted into the record through proper channels. The prosecution's later challenge to its authenticity does not, in his argument, change the fact that it was legitimately admitted.
Akyea's statement carried a broader frustration with how the case has played out in the public sphere. He argued that Adu-Boahene's prosecution was launched "on the platform of media trial, where lies sell," and he insisted that questions about evidence and the law belong in the courtroom, not in social media arguments. The implication was clear: the noise online was not where the case would be decided.
The defence team, Akyea said, is preparing what he described as a "very solid and credible submission of no case"—a legal argument that, if successful, would result in the charges being dismissed without the defence having to present its full case. He characterized the allegations against his clients as "sordid" and expressed confidence in the strength of that submission. His statement was as much a signal to the court as it was a response to online chatter: the defence is not retreating, and it believes it has grounds to argue the prosecution's case does not hold up.
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My attention has been drawn to some wretched and vile propaganda circulating on social media that I have abandoned my clients— Samuel Atta Akyea, defence lawyer
The court is the forum where evidence and law should settle vexed matters, not social media— Samuel Atta Akyea
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