Lawyers of the three South Africans ex police officers who were brought into the country by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to train its Flag bearer Nana Akufo Addo’s security detail, say they will still drag the Bureau of National Investigations to court for contempt.

Their threat comes hours after the three ex cops were deported from the country Tuesday morning via South African Airways flight number 210, which departed around 9:26 to Johannesburg.

They had been granted bail by an Accra Circuit Court last Thursday, but the BNI continued to hold them in custody until they were sent out of the country.

The Communications Minister, Dr Edward Omane Boamah speaking on behalf of government insists that the state’s intelligence agency did not wrong by detaining the three South Africans.

But one of the lawyers for the three, Samuel Atta Akyea in an interview with Joy News maintained that the BNI needed to be sanctioned for disregarding the orders of the court to serve as a deterrent for other state intelligence agencies.

“They illegally and unlawfully took away the three South Africans which is a matter of contempt which is a subject matter of contempt, there’s no dispute about that. But look at what has happened we know that they have been deported. Their deportation insults our system because if indeed you have arrested criminals and you believe that they were criminals, is indicative of the fact that the whole exercise, the noise and the melodrama about the arrest of these South Africans who were doing something unusual in association with NPP is a fuss and a hoax.”

He noted that the deportation of the three South Africans will not stop them from pursuing the contempt angle of the case.

“There is contempt in the sense that you have disrespected the authority of the court and brought the administration of justice into disrepute. You are saying that the court does not matter, their orders should be treated with impunity and disdain…this is what they have done, certainly we are going to court on this matter very soon.”

The three including Major Ahmed Shaik Hazis (rtd), 54; Warrant Officer Denver Dwayhe, 33, and Captain Mlungiseli Jokani, 45 would be met on arrival in South Africa by the country’s officials.

They were arrested at the EL-Capitano Hotel while conducting a training exercise for a team which was to work around the detail of Akufo-Addo.

The development led to the arrest of head of the security team of Akufo-Addo, Capt. Koda.