Shalimar Abbiusi re-arrested

Shalimar Abbiusi, a spokesperson for the New Force political movement, has been re-apprehended even though the charge of obtaining a student permit with false declaration against her was withdrawn.

Last week, the Belgian National was brought to court on allegations of presenting falsified documents, claiming to be a student of the Ghana Christian University College to secure a residence permit.

Although granted bail in the amount of GHc 20,000, the case was expected to proceed to full trial on Tuesday. However, immigration service prosecutors, led by ACI Adolf Aboagye Asenso, informed the court that they had received instructions to drop the charges. Consequently, the accused was discharged, and the case was officially withdrawn.

Shortly after leaving the courtroom, an immigration van apprehended her.  She was re-arrested despite the decision to withdraw the case.

Her legal team, led by Francis Xavier Sosu, accused the immigration service of orchestrating her deportation.

“You came to the court and said that you have asked that the charges against the person be dropped. The charges are dropped and the person is discharged. Then you bundle the person as if she is a common criminal here. If you want the person in your office, from here we will come to your office. Last week when the court said we should be there three times, we were there every single day. What kind of disgrace is this? What kind of international disgrace is this?“Are we living in a democracy or are we living in a jungle? Honestly, I am sincerely disappointed. Because you the immigration officers came here and said that her permit has been revoked. If you have revoked her permit what is the evidence of the revocation? You should have brought it to the court and shown it to everybody. You didn’t do that then you bundle the person as if she is a common criminal and send her away.

“Why do you behave this way? That is a complete assault, It is completely uncalled for. Where we are going I think we are sending the wrong signal to the international community. After all, there are Ghanaians who are also in other countries.”