«As he is unfit for detention, we ask that you immediately
release him on bail so that he may be admitted to hospital and receive the urgent medical treatment he clearly requires.
However, the IGP in a press
release on Thursday, April 6 stated: «We had police officers at the court and we had about 20 officers
on standby but, if you remember we gave the accused persons [police]
bail when they were suspects and they willingly appeared before the court,
so you can imagine that the extent of danger or likelihood of they escaping was not as high as we will believe,» he explained at a press conference in Accra
on Thursday, April 6.
So was Megan Stevenson, an economist and legal scholar at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, who found that a similar risk assessment system in Kentucky hasn't changed the number of prisoners
released on bail.