High Court rejects Dr. Opuni's letter as evidence

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A High Court in Accra dismissed a letter from the first defendant's lawyer in the ongoing trial of Dr. Steven Opuni and two others.

Samuel Codjoe presented in court as evidence a test conducted on a different fertilizer, (so Abapa

C & # 39; is after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Yvonne Attakora Oboubisa, objected to the letter that the defense lawyer wanted to file saying that having considered the accusations of which the defendants are accused, it focuses on the Lithovit powder fertilizer and not the fertilizer -Abapa whose defense counsel wanted to testify as evidence against the prosecution witness, so it should not be admitted as evidence.

The Court presided over by Judge Clemence Honyenugah said: Defense Counsel for submit an essay on a different fertilizer that is not the subject.

When asked why Dr. Amoah could not produce documents proving that Dr. Opuni gave the guidelines for the reduction of the Lithovit fertilizer test period. 19659007] He told the court that Dr. Opuni during his term mainly gave oral instructions not only to him but to almost all the scientists involved in the project.

He said why there were no written documents to support his claims

The lawyer then asked why Dr. Opuni had not communicated to him directly if the Dr. Opuni had made the directive orally, the witness explained that he also found strange and what made him attentive was that the approval of COCOBOD did not include the fact that Cocobod was not obliged to buy fertilizer from a company, contrary to what is standard when approvals are given.

Attorney for the first accused Samuel Codjoe during his cross-examination with the Executive Director of the Ghana Cocoa Research Institute (CRIG), Dr. Franklyn Amoah asked the witness when he personally knew the people whose names he joined with Lithovit's powdered fertilizer trials and how his client came on the scene since he was employed in December 2013 before the fertilizer does not arrive at the CRIG

He said that Dr. Opuni had immediately sent a letter for the fertilizer test.

He then asked if Dr. Amoah had issued a certificate dated January 22, 2014 on the use of Lithovit fertilizer, he said yes, but on the use of the drug. Lithovit powder fertilizer.

He told the court that the certificate he signed was the use of Lithovit Folia fertilizer.

He added that the certificate had been issued on the basis of the test which contained all the badysis and not of other Lithovit fertilizer.

The case was postponed October 10.

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