‘Is EOCO responsible for determining lawyers’ fees?’ – Baffour Awuah
Member of Parliament for Manyhia South, Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, has questioned whether the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) is responsible for regulating or determining lawyers’ professional fees.
Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah, a Member of Parliament for Manyhia South, has raised a question regarding the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO)'s role in setting lawyers' fees. This query arose following a Facebook post he made on Saturday, September 26, in which he addressed two separate allegations against him. The first allegation claimed that Awuah had declined an invitation from EOCO.
When this claim appeared to be ineffective, a second allegation emerged, stating that he had charged unapproved professional fees. Awuah questioned whether EOCO had the authority to regulate or determine lawyers' professional fees, posing the query: "But the question is: Is EOCO responsible for regulating or determining lawyers' professional fees?"
This inquiry followed his denial of another allegation, which stated that GHS2.2 million out of a GHS5 million sum was paid to him or his law firm, SBA and Partners, as legal fees. Additionally, Awuah refuted claims that he or SBA and Partners transferred money to the former Managing Director of SIC Life Savings and Loans, as well as a denial of a judicial sale of a property worth GHS24 million.
He firmly maintained that no such judicial sale had occurred, thus ruling out the possibility of the alleged GHS6 million remittance from an alleged buyer to himself or his firm.
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