The Office of the Attorney General is reviewing a case file involving Minority Leader and Effutu MP Alexander Afenyo-Markin over allegations of assaulting a police officer during a protest earlier this year.
Deputy Attorney General Justice Srem Sai confirmed the development in a Facebook post on Friday, November 7, 2025
“I can confirm that the docket on the case — The Republic v. Alexander Afenyo-Markin — is at the Office of the Attorney-General awaiting prosecutorial review and decision. The case involves a complaint of assault,” he wrote.
The incident allegedly occurred on May 5, 2025, during the ‘Save the Judiciary’ demonstration outside Parliament House, organised by civil society groups and opposition figures to protest perceived political interference in the judiciary.
Eyewitnesses claim a confrontation at Parliament’s entrance escalated into a physical altercation, with Afenyo-Markin accused of striking G/Cpl. Forson Abel, a police officer from the Tesano District, as officers enforced a restricted area marked by metal barricades.
The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service referred the docket to the Attorney General for advice after receiving a report from its Special Investigation Unit (SIU).