Former Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Acheampong, has criticised Attorney General Dominic Ayine\u2019s \u201cmedia trial,\u201d of alleged corrupt persons, warning that it could undermine the AG\u2019s reputation for competence, especially in cases where convictions may later be overturned.<\/p>\n
Speaking on\u00a0Breakfast Daily<\/strong>\u00a0on Channel One TV on Thursday, October 23, 2025, Mr. Acheampong labelled Mr. Ayine\u2019s approach as \u201cunhealthy,\u201d particularly condemning his courting of public sympathy during the\u00a0Government Accountability Series<\/strong>.<\/p>\n \u201cI have come to realise that my senior brother Ayine, his style is to do a media trial before getting to court. He was courting public sympathy when I watched him yesterday. That\u2019s the defect when you do this style of prosecution. You come to tell me something, and after six months, I don\u2019t see actions; I may have my doubts,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Mr. Acheampong further noted that rushing to the media exposes the Attorney General to criticism if accused persons are not ultimately convicted.<\/p>\n \u201cFor now, the AG is alleging, and certainly he would have to prove in court that these people are really guilty of the offences he is raising against them. I will just counsel my senior brother as he is building himself; he needs to hasten slowly. Rushing to the media, the media will always come back for results,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n His comments follow allegations of financial misconduct by former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food and Buffer Stock Company, Abdul-Wahab Hanan, during the Government Accountability Series on October 23, 2025.<\/p>\n Dr. Ayine disclosed that over GH\u00a240 million was allegedly transferred through Sawtina Enterprise to several individuals and entities \u2014 including Hanan \u2014 as part of what investigators suspect to be a money laundering scheme connected to the former CEO\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Eastern Regional Minister, Seth Acheampong, has criticised Attorney General Dominic Ayine\u2019s \u201cmedia trial,\u201d of alleged corrupt persons, warning that it could undermine the AG\u2019s reputation for competence, especially in cases where convictions may later be overturned. Speaking on\u00a0Breakfast Daily\u00a0on Channel One TV on Thursday, October 23, 2025, Mr. Acheampong labelled Mr. Ayine\u2019s approach as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":13721,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4217,238,41,18],"tags":[2808,3759,3921,4241],"class_list":["post-13720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accountability","category-crime","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-dominic-ayine","tag-ghana-news","tag-headline","tag-seth-acheampong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13722,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13720\/revisions\/13722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}