The Accra High Court has fixed Friday, July 10, 2026, to hear a habeas corpus application challenging the continued detention of former Chief Executive Officer of the National Food Buffer Stock Company, Hanan Abdul-Wahab Aludiba.
Godfred Yeboah Dame, counsel for Aludiba, disclosed the hearing date during an interview on Eyewitness News on Monday, July 6.
According to Dame, the application, filed at the High Court’s specialised division in Accra, seeks an order compelling the Director of the Bureau of National Intelligence and the Attorney-General to produce Aludiba before the court and justify the legal basis for his continued detention.
Aludiba was arrested by armed operatives at the Accra International Airport on Saturday, July 4, 2026, as he prepared to travel abroad for a court-approved medical trip.
Dame, however, argued that the July 10 hearing date was too far away given the circumstances and said his legal team would apply for an earlier hearing.
“I think Friday is a little bit too far, so we’ll seek an abridgement of that date,” he said.
He further contended that the continued detention of his client without access to legal representation raises serious human rights concerns.
According to Dame, the authorities’ failure to formally charge Aludiba or file an application to justify his detention suggests there was no legal basis for preventing him from undertaking the court-approved trip.
“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. 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,” he stated.