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God is the one punishing Sosu, don’t blame me for his troubles - Agyare
Sosu was suspended following a disciplinary action opened against him by the General Legal Council.
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According to him, Mr Sosu had set out to dupe him off the GHS200,000 compensation granted by a court as well as the reliefs he got after his release from a 14-year unlawful detention.
He said that the General Legal Council (GLC) should not be blamed for what has transpired because “what is happening now is an act of God. It is God who is punishing this guy [Sosu].”
Sosu was suspended following a disciplinary action opened against him by the professional body. He was banned for three years after pleading guilty to charges brought against him.
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One of the charges, on the basis of which he suffered a one-year ban, was out of a complaint brought by Mr. Agyare accusing the lawyer of attempting to swindle him.
According to the disciplinary briefing seen by Pulse.com.gh, he took to Facebook with pictures of the parties and comments on a case to the public with his firm’s name, address and telephone numbers attached, with the primary motive of personal advertisement and touting.
Francis-Xavier Sosu is challenging the three-year ban imposed on him by the General Legal Council in court, describing it as unfair.
Many Ghanaians have also hit hard at Agyare for reporting and causing the ban of the lawyer whom they claimed helped him to get his release from prison.
But speaking on Accra-based Joy FM, Agyare said that Mr. Sosu had absolutely nothing to do with his being released from jail, adding that he came into contact with the lawyer when he was already out of jail.
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He explained that the lawyer’s role was only to fight for compensation after his wrongful incarceration.
He said that after signing every agreement reached with the lawyer, he was promised adequate medical care and shelter but those were not met.
“He asked me how much I spend a day and I said GHS5 and he promised to give me GHS150 a month, so I signed for 10 percent of the money to be used for that.
“He also promised to rent me a place after I told him I did not have a place to stay and I signed that 10 percent of the money is used for that.”
He added that “He [Sosu] has been tossing me everywhere and whatever he made me sign, he did not do anything about it. So I forgot about him.”
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He further indicated that a GHS1,900 in donation from some lawyers in Cape Coast after getting to know of his fate with Mr Sosu was not given to him.
He explained that when he asked Sosu about the money so he could rent a place to live, he told him that the money was for him [Sosu].
“He told me that he requested for that money and that if it was not for him the money would not have been contributed and so the money was his. He gave me only GHS100 from it,” he said.
Mr Agyare said he realised from his response that the lawyer was out to dupe him.
Touching on the GHS200,000 compensation, Agyare said he would have been alright if Mr Sosu had split the money into two and given him half because he had never held even 5,000 cedis in his life.
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He, however, indicated that Sosus was telling him “stories” after he made him sign all the papers.
The 49-year-old said that after some time, Sosu refused to see him and many calls he made to him were left unanswered.
“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.”
Agyare said all he needed was a place to sleep and some money to start his farming business, but all that proved futile.
He said that he subsequently decided to go to the Ministry of Finance to chase and cause the release of the compensation himself.
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He, however, realised when he arrived there 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 own name.
He said 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.”
He said that the bank account was opened on Friday, by Monday GHS204,000 was paid into the account.
He said in order to keep his side of the bargain, he decided to pay the agreed GHS50,000 his lawyer charged into Mr. Sosu' account.
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He had before then reported the case to the GLC, thus, he decided to go there to withdraw the case since his money had been released.
But when he got to the GLC, he was told that Sosu had responded to the allegations, denying many of them and had pleaded not guilty after making counter-claims.
“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 he was therefore forced to give testimony against the lawyer.
The GLC, after hearing his account, questioned Mr Sosu who then changed his earlier plea and pleaded guilty to the charges.
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