Lawyer Sosu did not get me out of prison - Francis Agyare (audio) - Lawyer Sosu did not get me out of prison - Part 3

Admitting that the GH¢200,000 compensation was money he could not have handled by himself, he noted that even if Mr Sosu had split the money into two and given him half he would have accepted it without questions because he had never held GH¢5,000 in his life.

“But he was telling me stories after he made me sign all the papers,” he reiterated his confusion.

Mr Agyare said all he wanted was a place to lay his head and a little money to start his farming business, but none of that seemed possible.

He said after some time, Mr Sosu refused to see him. 

The angry 49-year-old man said many of his phone calls went unanswered and several visits to his office to see him personally were not fruitful.

“If I go to his office, they’ll tell me he is not there. If I call on him I will not get him. So one day I called him and he answered but he told me not to make any budget with the money.”

He decided after many unsuccessful attempts to see the lawyer to go to the Ministry of Finance to chase and cause the release of the compensation himself.

There, he realized that instead of a bank account being opened in his name for the money to be deposited in, Mr Sosu had opened an account at the Ghana Commercial Bank in his [Sosu] own name.

Noticing the discrepancies in the issue as narrated by Mr Agyare, workers at the Finance Ministry advised him to immediately open an account.

“The finance people asked me to open an account but I told them I didn’t have money, so they gave me money and I went to Fidelity to open the account.”

The bank account was opened on Friday, by Monday GHc204,000 was paid into the account.

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Bent on keeping his side of the bargain, Mr Agyare decided to pay the agreed GHc50,000 representing the 25 per cent his lawyer charged into Mr. Sosu' account.

Because he had already reported the lawyer's conduct to the GLC, he also planned to go there and withdraw the case since his money had been released.

But he was told upon arrival at the GLC that Mr Sosu had responded to the allegations, discounting many of them, making counter-claims and pleaded not guilty.

“He told them that he had been feeding me, paying my medical bills and rented a place for me to stay,” Mr Agyare said.

He said under the circumstances, he was compelled to give testimony against the lawyer.

After hearing his account, the GLC questioned Mr Sosu who then changed his earlier plea and pleaded guilty to the charges.

For Mr Agyare, the human rights lawyer’s suspension is purely punishment for the manner in which he treated him.

Credit: Myjoyonline