Recent reports in sections of the Ghanaian media have claimed that the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) in collaboration with the Defense Intelligence (DI) of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) have arrested and placed in custody four soldiers for their alleged role in the murder of Mr. Rokko Frimpong, a former deputy Managing Director of Ghana Commercial Bank in 2007. No official confirmation of these reports had been issued by the relevant authorities as we went to bed on Monday evening but initial unofficial double-checks by The New Crusading Guide have confirmed the arrest and incarceration of the four military personnel except that the reasons put out by the media for their arrest and incarceration appear doubtful and even dubious. Doubtful and dubious because our usually reliable sources within the Defense Intelligence (DI) of the Ghana Armed Forces (GAF) intimated to our roving intel scouts that the four soldiers were apparently picked up by operatives of National Security on suspicion of being involved in some sort of subversive activities against the security of the State rather than the murder of the former Deputy Managing Director of GCB as being speculated by sections of the Ghanaian media. We are surprised because initially and originally they were picked up for alleged subversion. Now we read and hear in the media that they are murder suspects. The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service had already investigated that murder and effected arrests of some suspects who were formally charged and indeed are facing prosecution in a court of competent jurisdiction. If we assume the reasons being given in the media for the arrest of the soldiers are true then won’t it be safe to conclude that the earlier Police CID investigations were bogus and the on-going prosecution of the earlier suspects/accused is therefore rendered redundant and ought to cease immediately? Queried an agitated DI operative. Even if it is the contention of the BNI, DI and the Attorney General (AG) that those who are already on trial collaborated with the four soldiers to commit the crime under reference (murder of Rokko Frimpong), due process would require that the court is notified of the new development and the judicial process temporarily ‘ arrested’ for re-engineering so as to bring the new accused persons on board for effective and equitable prosecution especially when the prosecution of the earlier suspects/accused is still on-going otherwise there a real risk of bringing the judicial process into disrepute and the realm of unnecessary controversy. Source: The New Crusading Guide