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Seidu Abubakar, the eighth prosecution witness in the trial of the four accused, accused of kidnapping two Canadian girls, denied having orchestrated the kidnapping of the victims.
He also denied doing so and ended up implicating the four currently on trial.
Responding to cross-examination questions from Mr. Yaw Dankwah, lawyer for two of the defendants, Abubakar also denied asking one of the defendants Yusif Yakubu to hire a car for the kidnapping of the Canadian girls.
The eighth prosecution witness denied Mr. Dankwah’s allegations that he was a member of the Delta Force and the boys from Khandarha who allegedly committed violent crimes.
The witness told the High Court presided over by Judge Lydia Osei Marfo that he was the security chief of Kumasi Asante Kotoko football club.
Abubakar said he did not know what Delta Force or Khandahar Boys stood for.
He further rejected allegations that firearms and a pistol were recovered from him during his arrest during the kidnapping.
The witness admitted that a 9mm pistol was recovered from his bedroom and told police that the pistol belonged to a Chinese friend.
The witness also rejected Mr. Dankwah’s assertion that the house in which the two Canadian girls were rescued was under his control and that he was the owner of the house.
He also denied having led the police to arrest the four defendants currently on trial.
According to him, he did not know any of the accused and never committed a crime with the accused.
He also denied that after firing a few shots, he managed to kidnap the Canadian girls.
Responding to further questions from Mr. Oliver Atsu, lawyer for Sampson Agalor, the first accused, the witness said he never heard on the news that the two Canadian girls had been kidnapped.
The witness said he was also unaware that his photos were broadcast in various daily newspapers as the mastermind behind the abduction of the two.
The four defendants are Sampson Aghalor aka Romeo, a 27-year-old computer engineer, Elvis Ojiyorwe, a 27-year-old businessman, Jeff Omarsa a 28-year-old Tiler, all Nigerians and Yusif Yakubu a Ghanaian resident in Kumasi. .
The four accused have been charged with two counts of conspiracy to kidnap and kidnap.
Four other suspects were released by the court following observations by the Attorney General that, after further investigation and review of the case, he decided to end the prosecution against Seidu Abubakar alias Mba, Abdul Nasir, Safiano Abubakar and Abdul Rahman Sulemana alias Wofa.
The four defendants were arrested in connection with the kidnapping of two Canadians, Ms. Lauren Tilley and Ms. Bailey Chitty, who were in Ghana volunteering but residing in Kumasi in the Ashanti region.
The Canadians were kidnapped when they left a restaurant to reach their Ridge apartment in Kumasi.
The kidnappers took them hostage amid the gunfire and eventually went to hide them in an unfinished building in Amoam-Achiase in the Kwabre district of the Ashanti region.
— GNA
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