Court to hear habeas Corpus Case of Ex-Buffer Stock CEO on July 10
Lawyers for former National Food Buffer Stock Company CEO, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba, say the Accra High Court will hear an application challenging his detention on Friday, July 10, 2026.
The application was filed at the court’s specialised division. It is asking the court to order the Director of the Bureau of National Intelligence and the Attorney-General to produce Aludiba and explain the legal grounds for keeping him in custody.
Aludiba was picked up by armed operatives at Kotoka International Airport on Saturday, July 4, just as he was about to leave the country for a medical trip approved by the court.
Speaking on Citi FM’s Eyewitness News on Monday, July 6, his counsel, Godfred Yeboah Dame, said the July 10 date was set after the application was moved on notice. But he described the wait as too long.
“I think Friday is a little bit too far, so we’ll seek an abridgement of that date,” Dame said. He argued that keeping his client in detention without access to lawyers raises serious human rights issues, and the legal team will push for an earlier hearing.
Dame also questioned the basis for the arrest itself. According to him, the fact that authorities have not charged Aludiba in court, nor filed any formal process to justify holding him, suggests there was no legal reason to stop him from travelling in the first place.
“The failure to charge him in court today, the failure to file any application whatsoever, shows that clearly, they actually had no basis at all for stopping him from travelling,” he stated.
He went further to link comments made by the Deputy Attorney-General to what he called an attempt to frustrate a court order.
“And the allegation that was made by the Deputy Attorney-General, while that context was clearly an effort to prevent an execution of the order, was clearly an effort to prevent the court order from being carried out,” Dame added.
The habeas corpus application is seeking the immediate production of Aludiba in court so a judge can determine whether his continued detention is lawful.
The arrest on July 4 cut short what was supposed to be a court-sanctioned medical trip abroad, and has since sparked debate over due process and the rights of persons in custody.
For now, all eyes will be on the High Court on July 10, unless Dame’s team succeeds in getting the date moved up.
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