After almost ten years stuck in legal purgatory, Gregory Afoko just walked out of an Accra courtroom because the system basically gave up on prosecuting him for the acid attack that killed NPP regional chairman Adams Mahama back in 2015. The judge pulled the plug after watching the trial get postponed over six times with zero movement, and the jury situation was completely cooked with only five people showing up when they needed seven.
His co-accused, Asabke Alangdi, already got convicted, but Afoko's case turned into this never-ending nightmare of delays, missing jurors, and administrative chaos. A mistrial happened years ago when the original judge died, and things just kept spiraling from there. Human rights people have been pointing at this whole mess as proof that Ghana's court system has serious structural problems with how it handles criminal cases, and the discharge is raising questions about whether prosecutors will even bother trying again.
His co-accused, Asabke Alangdi, already got convicted, but Afoko's case turned into this never-ending nightmare of delays, missing jurors, and administrative chaos. A mistrial happened years ago when the original judge died, and things just kept spiraling from there. Human rights people have been pointing at this whole mess as proof that Ghana's court system has serious structural problems with how it handles criminal cases, and the discharge is raising questions about whether prosecutors will even bother trying again.
