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Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah limping to the courtroom
After several weeks of absence, arguments and court orders on his state of health, the second suspect in the murder trial of former University of Ghana law professor, Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, has eventually made his first appearance in Kaneshie District Court after being released from Korle-Bu University Hospital in Accra.
Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah has been absent from legal proceedings since October 14, 2020.
The prosecution told the court that Nkansah was ill and was receiving treatment at the police hospital.
He was eventually sent to Korle Bu University Hospital where surgery was performed on him.
Nkansah, who appeared in court yesterday, was seen limping.
The suspect is facing the court for conspiracy and murder along with the prime suspect, James Nana Womba, who police say confessed to killing Professor Benneh.
Womba later died in police custody on October 17, 2020.
A third suspect, Ebenezer Kwayisi, aka Junior, is also charged with murder and aiding and abetting crime.
Charges
When the case was examined yesterday, the prosecutor, Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo, asked the court to consolidate the charges of Kwayisi and Nkansah, which was later granted.
In the new charges, Womba (deceased) is tagged as the first defendant in the murder of the former lecturer while Kwayisi and Nkansah are charged with complicity and tagged as the second and third defendants respectively.
However, the court ruled that a deceased person could not be charged and therefore urged the prosecution to restore order to his house before the next adjournment date, February 20, 2020.
“You can’t read the charges to someone who is dead, I don’t think we can work that way, so please the right thing has to be done”, said the President of the Tribunal, Ms. Ama Adomako-Kwakye.
Even if the request for consolidation of the charge sheet was accepted, the request to replace the charge sheet was refused.
Context
Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ghana (Legon), was found dead at his residence in Adjiriganor in Accra.
The body of the younger brother of a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana, Professor George Benneh, was discovered in his residence on Saturday September 12, 2020, lying in a pool of blood with his hands tied behind him with cuts all over the body.
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