Leadership and stalwarts of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) are gearing up to storm the EOCO office today over what they describe as the "unlawful" detention of former Chief Executive Officer of National Food Buffer Stock Company (NAFCO), Abdul-Wahab Hanan.

Their concerns stem from EOCO's refusal to release Mr Hanan from detention despite meeting bail terms over financial crime allegations.

NPP National Youth Organiser Salam Mustapha expressed frustration towards EOCO for flouting due process over the matter on Channel One TV’s Newsroom on Sunday, July 6.

“If Hanan has done something wrong, put him before a court of law and let him have his day.”

“We will go to the EOCO office together with some MPs, party sympathisers, and executives, and ask why. We want to know why he is still being kept in the station when the conditions that you put on him have been met," he stated.

Mustapha described the continued detention as unacceptable and accused EOCO of deliberately refusing to communicate.

“The evaluation report that we have far exceeds those bail conditions. When everything was finished, we called Raymond Archer, his deputies to come and just go through and grant the young man bail to go home. None of them picked up their phone calls,” he said. “So, he has been left there as punishment for exactly what we do not know.”

As part of EOCO's investigations into alleged economic crimes at NAFCO, Abdul-Wahab Hanan was arrested on June 25, including his wife.

EOCO granted a GHS 30 million bail to his wife while her husband remains in custody pending fulfillment of his GHS60 million bail condition.

The arrest, which took place simultaneously in Accra and Tamale, also led to the detention of a third, unnamed individual believed to be linked to the investigation.

This comes after the prolonged detention of NPP's Ashanti Regional Chairman, Bernard Antwi Boasiako.

NPP legislators embarked on a solidarity walk to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) headquarters in May to demand the release of Bernard Antwi Boasiako, popularly known as Chairman Wontumi.

He was charged for undertaking mining operations without a license, entering a forest reserve without authorisation and polluting water bodies.

At the premises of EOCO, the legislators staged a sit-down and chanted a number of diplomatic and party songs.

Simultaneously, other party supporters restricted the movements of police officers deployed to ensure safety and security.

However, after minutes of intervention by party leadership, chaos was averted.