Lawyer Kwesi Botwey Jr has described the arrest of former Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD) Executive Secretary Dennis Edward Aboagye, popularly known as "Miracles", as baseless, while dismissing the Economic and Organised Crime Office's (EOCO) statement on the matter as "useless" and "bogus".

Speaking to the media, Kwesi Botwey Jr said he had expected EOCO to announce formal charges rather than issue a public statement.

"Ordinarily, what I was expecting to see [was] a charge sheet. For EOCO to say that the Attorney General has arraigned Dennis before a court of competent jurisdiction, and he has been charged with offence A, B, C, or X, Y, Z. But you don't issue a press statement to pronounce the person guilty until the person has proven himself innocent. You don't do that."

Questioning the relevance of EOCO's statement, he said: "In any case, what did the statement say? It said someone has started refunding the money... and so what? The statement doesn't make any sense."

He added that the absence of a signatory on the statement reflected a lack of confidence in its contents.

"No one could confidently append a signature to it. Did you see any signatory under the statement? Nobody had the audacity to sign the statement because it was a very useless and reckless statement."

Kwesi Botwey Jr further argued that the statement appeared to have been issued in haste.

"It was a statement that was issued in panic as a panic reaction to the ongoing issues. The statement was full of typographical errors, full of grammatical mistakes. The statement is a complete mess. I don't know any meaning that the statement conveys. The statement is a lot of nothing. It doesn't mean anything. It's bogus. We shouldn't treat the statement with any urgency."

The lawyer also maintained that, as of the time he addressed the media, no charges had been filed against Miracles Aboagye.

"As we speak, there is no charge sheet before any court, he's not been charged."