Special aide of former president John Mahama says a self-styled preacher who is being held by the state for alleged threat of death has been denied access to his lawyers.

Joyce Bawa Mogtari said Apostle Kwabena Owusu Agyei who was arrested in Rambo-style on Wednesday has still not had contact with a lawyer, even after being arraigned.

The former Deputy Minister of Transport denounced the security operatives, arguing that that a person has been accused of a crime, doesn’t erode their basic rights.

In other jurisdictions, the state would even provide a counsel for the Apostle, Mogtari told Kojo Yankson on Joy FM’s Super Morning Show Friday.

The nature of Owusu Agyei’s arrest notwithstanding his alleged crime is unlawful, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) communicator said.

Apostle Agyei was picked up my National Security operatives after he said the Electoral Commission Chairperson Jean Mensa would be killed of the EC goes head to compile a new register of voters.

The pastor at a Church Service on Facebook live on Sunday served a strong warning to Mrs. Mensa to stop the compilation of the new register.

He was bundled into a 4x4 vehicle by the operatives dressed in casual clothes who claimed to have a warrant for his arrest.

Videos and pictures later went viral on social media showing his interrogation in which he was holding substances suspected to be marijuana.

The Accra Circuit Court has remanded him, to reappear on June 23, coincidentally, the day set by the Supreme Court for verdict in the matter of NDC vrs the EC on requirement for the voters’ register compilation.

Planting of weed allegations

Ranking Member on Parliament’s Defense and Interior Committee James Agalga has raised concerns on the circumstances the marijuana was found on the ‘Man of God.’

The MP claims planting of marijuana on suspects by security operatives is a common practice.

Mr. Agalga believes that a similar situation in the pastor’s arrest will not be farfetched describing his right to fair trial as ‘already compromised.’

“At the time of his arrest he was not searched, the weed was not readily found on him. Subsequently, we see him before the cameras with substances suspected to be weed. The question to as is, did somebody plant the weed on the suspect,” he quizzed.

But Chairperson of the Defense and Interior Committee Seth Acheampong dismissed the claims.

“I don’t think anybody will take interest in planting substance on any other fellow… nobody should encourage that,”Mr Acheampong said.