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General News of Friday, July 12, 2019
Source: 3news.com
2019-07-12
Some of the accused
A prosecution witness at the trial of the alleged badbadins of the late Major Maxwell Mahama was involved in an accident.
The High Court in Accra learned that the ACP Baffour Apenteng Nyamekye, who testified in chief and was questioned as the 12th prosecution witness, was reportedly involved in an accident this weekend.
Prosecutors said the Nyamekye ACP had been hospitalized but had been released on Monday, July 10.
Ms. Evelyn Keelson, the Attorney General, told the Court that she had had a brief conversation with the witness and asked the Court for an adjournment.
The Court presided over by Judge Mariama Owusu, a Judge of the Court of Appeal exercising additional responsibilities as a High Court Judge, adjourned the trial to Tuesday, July 23, following the prayer.
On the last adjournment date, the witness told the court that he had never built a google map, but instead reconstructed the sketch of the crime scene.
Mr. Appenteng, who has been working with Ghana's police for 30 years, answered questions during an additional cross-examination of Mr. Bernard Shaw, counsel for William Baah, and added that he had added some elements to the Google map to lead to the sketch of the crime scene.
When asked if he knew the military were in this district to protect a mining company called C and G, he responded in the affirmative.
The Defense again asked the witness that he knew that the company was engaged in illegal mining activities in the area. The witness stated that he was in town to investigate a murder case and not for illegal exploitation.
Fourteen people are currently being tried by the High Court of Accra after the killing of Commander Mahama, an officer of the 5th Infantry Battalion, at the Burma camp.
The late major was in service in Denkyira-Oboasi, in the central region, when on May 29, 2017, residents allegedly took him for an armed robber and lynched him.
The crowd had ignored his persistent plea that he was an officer of Ghana's armed forces.
The accused are William Baah, member of the Denkyira Obuasi Assembly, Bernard Asamoah aka Daddy, Kofi Nyame ak.a.Abortion, Akwasi Boah, Kwame Tuffour, Joseph Appiah Kubi, Michael Anim and Bismarck Donkor.
The others are John Bosie, Akwasi Baah, Charles Kwaning, Emmanuel Badu, Bismarck Abanga and Kwadwo Anima.
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