My attention has been drawn to a statement by NDC’s National Communication officer claiming that the judge in the ambulance trial has directed the Attorney General, Godfred Dame, “to stay away from the trial on grounds of professional and prosecutorial misconduct”.
This statement is blatant falsehood and a complete misrepresentation of what transpired in court today. As a matter of fact, the court dismissed all the four applications filed by Dr Ato Forson and Richard Jakpa seeking to truncate the criminal trial and an order of inquiry into the conduct of the AG.
The court said there was no legal ground for any of the applications by the two accused persons. Obviously, disappointed by the ruling, The NDC is only seeking to mislead and deceive the public once again.
The learned judge only advised the AG that in view of all that had happened, she would advise him not to personally conduct the matter but rather allow the other attorneys of the Office of the Attorney-General to continue with the trial. The judge actually clarified after the ruling that she never ordered the Attorney-General not to continue handling the matter.
On the issue of the admission of the secretly recorded telephone conversation, the court stated that the admission of the tape has no bearing on the weight to be placed on it. In the circumstances of this case, the judge said that the tape was not relevant as the conversation did not show that the Attorney-General asked Richard Jakpa to help him make his case.
She said she had listened to the tape 10 times and did not hear the Attorney-General say those words. On the contrary, those words came from Richard Jakpa himself.
Credit: Henry Nana Boakye, Esq.