Lawyers for British fugitive, David McDermott, have questioned the basis for the extradition of their client by the state, using a treaty signed between the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
According to one of his lawyers, Kodjoga Adawudu, there was no treaty between Ghana and the UK binding both countries to send arrested fugitives back to their home countries for trial.
He also said the treaty which the state was relying on for the extradition process could not hold, because the country was no longer a colony of Britain.
David McDermott, listed as one of the UK’s most wanted, was arrested on March 11 in Ghana, for his alleged role in a conspiracy to import £71 million worth of cocaine into the UK in 2013.
There is currently an extradition request issued by the British High Commission to the Foreign Affairs Ministry of Ghana.
Mr. McDermott, who has been on the run from UK authorities for some years now, is married to the step-daughter of the Governor of the Bank of Ghana, Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah.
He was brought before an Accra Circuit court on March 14 and charged with illegal possession and dealing in narcotics.
He pleaded not guilty to all the charges and was remanded.
By: Dan Kwasi Prince//dailyviewgh.com
