Beatrice Annan is a member of the legal team of the opposition National Democratic Congress who expressed her displeasure over the maltreatment on her lawyer colleagues.
She has reportedly slammed the Ghana Bar Association over its silence on happenings that occurred during the #OccupyJulorbiHouse# demonstration that took place from September 21 to September 23, 2023.
While speaking in an interview on Metro TV on 25th September 2023, Annan described the Ghana Bar Association Leadership as the most “useless” in Ghana.
Annan said that the GBA was silent while its members were being brutalized by officers of the Ghana Police Service just because they went to police stations to free demonstrators who had been arrested.
According to the lawyer, she was not surprised by the actions of the police service, but the silence of the association which she described as deafening.
“As for the police, the least said about them, the better. I think that it is most shameful to see that the colonial mentality has not left the police service. Ghana Police should be ashamed of themselves for what happened on Nkrumah’s birthday. And this is why I say that the Ghana Bar Association is becoming perhaps the most useless organization after the government.
“… The members are not useless; the leadership is useless, and I say with no apology. What happened was that when the protesters were arrested, my colleague lawyers went in there to seek bail or to secure bail for people. And police had the effrontery to beat lawyers and arrest them, and other lawyers had to leave and go and bail lawyers who had gone to bail protesters,” she said.
“Where is this done…? Even if you picked up people without knowing their identities and lawyers have come to bail these people or lawyers are intervening in the process of arrest, you don’t arrest the lawyers and beat them” She fumed.
