Charles Bissue, the former Secretary of the defunct Inter-Ministerial Committee on Illegal Mining (IMCIM), has withdrawn one of his three cases against the Office of Special Prosecutor (OSP).
The case in question involved Mr. Bissue requesting the court to either halt the OSP’s investigations or include investigative journalist Anas Aremyaw Anas as a suspect. He also sought to restrain the OSP from arresting him. The OSP launched an investigation following a documentary by Anas Aremyaw, in which Mr. Bissue was allegedly filmed accepting bribes.
During the court proceedings, Nana Kojo Pintoh Gyabi, a member of Mr. Bissue’s legal team, informed the court of their decision to discontinue the case. Dr. Isidore Tufuor, the Director of Prosecution at the OSP, expressed no opposition to the application.
“This is their own application, if they intend to withdraw same, we are not opposed to it” he stated.
The court, therefore, struck out the case as withdrawn. This development comes barely a day after Mr. Bissue was arrested and granted bail by the OSP. There are currently two other cases filed by Mr. Bissue pending at the courts against the OSP.
One is a human rights action in which he alleges his rights have been abused with the other is the action in which he challenges the authority of the investigative body to probe him when the matter has been handled by the police already.