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By Morkporkpor Anku, GNA
Accra, April 16, GNA – Mr. Dickson Akyamfour
Duah, a detective sergeant, declared in front of a high court in Accra the trial of the alleged
killers of the late Major Maxwell Mahama, that he was not negligent in the use
a piece of paper to take recordings at the scene of the crime.
He said he left his notebook when he was
started the investigations because the information arrived as an emergency, when
he was out of the office.
Mr Duah, ninth Prosecution witness
in her chief testimony headed by Ms. Enam Loh Mensah, the Attorney General stated
He is a police officer stationed at Deiso in Denkyira West District,
Central region.
He declared on the fateful date of May 29, when
the incident happened, he was on duty at the Criminal Investigations Department
(CID) when his District Officer called him to his office.
He said his district officer named DSP Osei
Adu Agyemen told him that he had gathered information that a suspect, Yaw
Amankwah, now on the run, had used a single gun to attack Mahama.
The Detective Sergeant, who had worked for the
Past 13 years and at the Deiso Police Station for three years, said
they then mobilized men and went to Denkyira-Obuasi. Upon arrival, he
went straight to Yaw but did not meet anyone, but the door was
widely open.
"So I went in and started digging the
room, where I saw the so-called pistol, which I recovered, "he added.
Mr. Duah stated that the weapon had been forwarded to the CID
seat, because the case itself was later mentioned for further information.
surveys.
The witness further identified the open pistol
court.
During the cross-examination of Patrick Anim Addo,
The lawyers for Bismarck Abanga and Kwadwo Anima asked how many statements
the witness did about the case of which he said that it was two.
The lawyer also asked whether in both
statements he only wrote about Yaw's chamber gun recovery and
nothing else to which he replied in the negative.
The recap of the witnesses, other things that he wrote in
the statement saying on May 29 around 7 pm he was at the train station
with the station officer when four soldiers came and asked to see his
District Officer.
He said that the chief of the four men had told his
District officer that their commander, the late Major Mahama, went for jogging
in the morning but since is not returned and this information that they were
the hearing revealed that an alleged thief had been lynched and that they
firmly believed that he could be the so-called alleged brigand.
"There they complained and left," he said.
I said.
Counsel asked if the witness knew
there were military personnel in the area and he responded in the affirmative.
Say "I know that there is a detachment in the area."
"What did you do after the complaint?"
Addo asked and the witness said my district officer, myself and two others left
for Denkyira-Obausi around 20:30.
The witness said that they went to town for
inquire into the complaint filed by the military, for which we were told that
really someone was lynched and that the body was dropped off at
Dunkwa-On-Offin.
He said that they also learned that someone was
shot as a result of a fight between the deceased and the victim.
Asked why the witness did not inform the court
at the beginning, until he was questioned, he stated that the Prosecution had informed him
know that he would only testify about the recovery of the weapon.
Counsel suggested to the witness that he
He was asked to omit this aspect of his testimony, but he was not in agreement.
Mr. George Bernard Shaw, William's Counsel
In cross-examination, Baah asked the witness if he knew the
importance of a police pocket notebook and he said that he was one of the
the accoutrements used to note the important points of the investigation.
"Do you know that it's a professional mistake at
the highest level to conduct an investigation or go to the crime scene without the
pocket notebook, "asks the lawyer, but the witness sometimes said, when
there was an emergency, which they needed to answer, they go and later
record in the station log.
He told the court that at the scene of the crime he
got a piece of paper that he noted some important points and later
recorded in the station log.
Fourteen people are on trial at a
High Court of Accra after the badbadination of Commander Mahama, who was an officer of the
5th infantry battalion at Burma camp.
The late Major was on duty in Denkyira-Obuasi
in the central region when, on May 29, 2017, residents would have confused
for an armed robber and the lynched.
The crowd had ignored his persistent plea
he was an officer of the Ghana Armed Forces.
The accused are William Baah, the MP.
of Denkyira Obuasi, Bernard Asamoah says dad, Kofi Nyame a.k.a Abortion,
Akwasi Boah, Kwame Tuffour, Joseph Kubi Appiah, Michael Anim and Bismarck
Donkor.
The others are John Bosie, Akwasi Baah, Charles
Kwaning, Emmanuel Badu, Bismarck Abanga and Kwadwo Anima.
The Court presided over by Judge Mariama
Owusu, postponed the matter to Wednesday, April 17 for further information.
cons-examination.
GNA
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