{"id":240731,"date":"2026-08-09T20:10:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-atta-akyea-asks-chief-justice-to-withdraw-vacation-hearing-directive-in-adu-boahene-trial\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T20:10:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T18:10:54","slug":"ghana-atta-akyea-asks-chief-justice-to-withdraw-vacation-hearing-directive-in-adu-boahene-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-atta-akyea-asks-chief-justice-to-withdraw-vacation-hearing-directive-in-adu-boahene-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Atta Akyea Asks Chief Justice to Withdraw Vacation Hearing Directive in Adu-Boahene Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea has asked the Chief Justice to withdraw a directive that allows the criminal trial involving former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene to continue during the legal vacation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">In a letter dated August 5, 2026, Mr. Atta Akyea, who is head of chambers at Zoe, Akyea &amp; Co., said his legal team would be unable to attend the scheduled hearings on August 11, 12 and 13.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The hearings were fixed by Justice Francis Apangabuno Achibonga, who is sitting as an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608070717.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea has asked the Chief Justice to withdraw a directive that allows the criminal trial involving former National Signals Bureau Director-General Kwabena Adu-Boahene to continue during the legal vacation. In a letter dated August 5, 2026, Mr. Atta Akyea, who is head of chambers at Zoe, Akyea &amp; Co., said his legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[55105,258,256,49038,7065,18767,6510,9137,4508,4509,6636,6852,257,254,6564,11027,10905],"class_list":["post-240731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-aduboahene","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akyea","tag-asks","tag-atta","tag-chief","tag-directive","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hearing","tag-justice","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-trial","tag-vacation","tag-withdraw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}