Associate Professor at the University of Ghana School of Law, Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua has advised Attorney-General, Godfred Dame to resign if allegations of pressuring an accused person to turn on another in the high-profile Dr. Ato Forson case turn out to be true.

Speaking on Morning Starr, the law professor insisted that the crucial position the Attorney-General held within the country’s legal system came with a high standard and it was important that it be held up with such decorum at all times.

“If what has been said in the public domain is the truth then he has to do the honorable thing by resigning because that behavior is unbecoming and not what is expected of an Attorney General because he holds a very high office.

“The whole criminal law process is in his bosom and so if you’re talking about the law being in the bosom of the judge, then we are talking about criminal law process being in the bosom of the attorney general,” he said on the morning show.

The law academic excoriated the Attorney General for intimidating businessman Richard Jakpa given that he championed a plea bargaining bill in 2022, the first of its kind in Ghana.

“The plea bargain which he led in drafting it and conducting training and so on for lawyers and judges to know how to apply it, he is violating it based on the information available then certainly he has scandalized the whole bargaining process and he should do the honorable thing and resign to protect the integrity of the office,” Professor Appiagyuei-Atuah said referencing the two-year-old law.