Lawyer Kwesi Botwey Jr has alleged that the arrest of former Inter-Ministerial Coordinating Committee on Decentralisation (IMCCoD) Executive Secretary Dennis Edward Aboagye, popularly known as "Miracles", was politically motivated and intended to silence the government's outspoken critic.

Speaking to the media at the headquarters of the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO), he claimed the arrest was designed to intimidate Miracles Aboagye because of his criticism of the government's handling of key national issues.

He said: "The whole arrest and everything surrounding this matter is to get political capital, is to silence Miracles, is to intimidate Miracles, and his followers because they know that as it stands now the leading, most vocal person in the NPP, one of government's loudest critics is Miracles. We all know this. People's Forum. He brought up the cocoa issues, utility tariffs - the government is uncomfortable about what he's doing. The government is unhappy about what he's doing. And so all this is intimidation tactics by the government to shut him down."

Kwesi Botwey Jr argued that the sequence of events preceding the arrest did not justify the manner in which it was carried out.

According to him, after Miracles Aboagye handed over office, he responded to every audit query raised by the current Executive Secretary in November 2025, after which there was no further communication.

He said EOCO later invited Miracles Aboagye on or around April 28, 2026, but he spent less than 10 minutes at the office before being informed that investigations had not been concluded and that he would be invited again.

"This was until we saw he had been arrested at the airport, and a spectacle had been created. Now, what is the purpose of the spectacle? Was it because the person had announced his intentions to become the National Communications Director...?" he asserted.

He concluded: "If you put all the pieces of events and circumstances leading to the arrest together, you form but one irresistible conclusion, and that is it is because of his declaration. That is why he has been arrested."