Judgment Day for the Missing Girls of Takoradi on March 5 | General news

The Sekondi High Court has set March 5, 2021 as the day of judgment in the murder case involving two Nigerian nationals, Samuel Udoetuk Wills and John Oji, who have been accused of killing the four missing Takoradi Girls.

The court chaired by Judge Richard Adjei-Frimpong set a date for the trial after the defendants’ lawyer closed his defense on Wednesday.

The prosecution is expected to file its written address on February 17, 2021, followed by that of the defense lawyer on February 24, 2021.

They are expected to speak orally to the jury on March 3, 2021 to deliver their judgment verdict on Friday, March 5, 2021.

During cross-examination of the second defendant, John Oji, on Wednesday, he told the court that the alleged social media conversations between him and the first defendant, Samuel Udoetuk Wills, were not coming from his phone.

He explained that the phone he was using does not support social media apps (WhatsApp and Facebook) and that comments on Wills’ phone cannot be his.

He said he was informed of the disappearance of the Takoradi girls after being lured to Togo and Ghana by investigators who arrested him without a warrant.

He said the phone he had with him and was handed over to investigators did not support social media.

Oji said he was informed of the disappearance of the Takoradi girls who were allegedly kidnapped by investigators after his arrest.

“I told them that I am a seller in Nigeria, they told me that they had arrested Samuel Wills and he mentioned me as his accomplice.”

Oji told the court that he had difficulties with the two officers who arrested him but that he was overpowered and was transferred to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) unit of the Ghana Police Service in Accra.

He told the court that when he arrived at the CID office, he received slaps in the face and was subsequently subjected to a series of torture, but he told them that he did not know anything about the kidnapping.

He said he first visited Ghana in 2017 and does not speak any Ghanaian language.

When asked which of the four girls he knew, Oji replied that he didn’t know any.

Oji meets Wills

Wills, he said, is his maternal relative who invited him to Ghana the first time he visited the country.

When he arrived in Ghana, Wills led him over the phone until they finally met. He said the phone number he used to call him was a Ghanaian cell phone number, but does not remember the number and the network.

He admitted that he had known Wills for about 25 years from their childhood, but they lost touch at one point.

He explained that he had been to Ghana for the time being because Wills had promised him a job as a public relations officer or supervisor at a construction site and that he had a background in management science and a health and safety training.

Wills owes me

He said Wills told him that he (Wills) worked in a construction company and that on his next visit to Ghana he would pay him the 110,000 Naira he [Wills] owed him.

In his response to the court case that he (John Oji) conspired with Wills to kidnap and kill the girls, Oji denied the charge.

He said he hadn’t conspired with anyone at any point in time and was not introduced to the girls physically or on social media.

He subsequently pointed out to the court that some of the statements in evidence could not be his statement and that there was a contradiction in the date of the statement and that some of the paragraphs it contains are not his sentences and that he didn’t agree.

“On the date of said statement, I was in the custody of the National Bureau of Investigations from September 20 to November 13. During my stay in detention, there was no interrogation or visit, ”he said.