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A district court has ordered a full medical report on Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, the second alleged killer of Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh.
The court chaired by Ama Adomako Kwaakye also ordered the Police to treat Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, the second suspect who is also admitted to the Police Hospital, with the expected standards of medical care.
However, he rejected a request for bail made by Mr. Emmanuel Larbi Amoah, Mr. Nkansah’s defense attorney.
The court order came after Amoah denounced his client’s condition, saying he feared he would not get over his pain if he was not given proper care.
The defense attorney said he was surprised that the police were unable to present Nkansah in court.
Amoah said he had visited Nkansah and taken pictures of it, adding that it is “not good for the eyes.”
The defense attorney said that Nkansah did not resist arrest and was sent to the Regional Police Command and questioned, although he had pleaded not guilty.
Nkansah was injured, tortured and ill-treated while taking his precautionary statement.
The lawyer said he feared that an announcement of his death similar to that made in the case of the first defendant, James Nana Womba, could also happen to his client.
Amoah told the court that Nkansah’s “shape and form” was deteriorating from the knee down.
The lawyer asked the court to order the police to send Nkansah to a different medical facility for proper care, “otherwise he would not get over his pain.”
Prosecutor’s Inspector Ebenezer Teye-Okuffo said he did not know where the defense attorney got the information from.
Inspector Teye-Okuffo said that Nkansah was receiving treatment and his superiors were aware of Nkansah’s condition and that an officer had been assigned to take care of Nkansah.
The prosecution denied that the images produced by the defense attorney were the image of Nkansah and questioned the source of the images.
He said that Nkansah was taken to the district court for internment proceedings and urged defense lawyers to seek bail in High Court.
The prosecution was optimistic that by the next postponed date, Nkansah would be fine and the Police would combine the case file.
According to the Prosecutor’s Office, for security reasons, the Police Hospital is the safest place for Nkansah to receive his medical treatment.
The court later found out from the investigator how Nkansah was doing. The investigator said that Nkansah was doing well in a special ward and that he had visited Nkansah last week on Thursday.
The defense attorney then intervened saying: “I was there on Thursday and they gave him blood. A call was made to Nkansah’s hometown for someone to come and donate blood. “
James Nana Womba, the first defendant, died last month at the Police Hospital. According to the police, he had been ill for a while and had been put on oxygen in the hospital’s intensive care unit, but died after some time.
Womba reportedly acted alongside one Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah, a resident of Ashiaman, and two others, currently at large.
Womba and Badu face charges of conspiracy to commit a crime with murder.
The Court has preserved its reasons.
The facts narrated by Inspector Teye-Okuffo are that Akosua Benneh, the elder sister of the deceased, is the complainant, while Womba is a domestic employee of the late Prof Benneh in Adjiriganor, near East Legon, Accra.
The prosecution said that on September 13 this year, the 66-year-old professor’s body was found in a pool of blood in a supine position with his hand and legs tied.
He said that the deceased had been taken from his terrace to his bedroom and had multiple cuts on his body with a cloth in his mouth, while his body was in a state of decomposition.
The prosecution said that the professor’s body had since been deposited in the morgue of the Police Hospital in Accra.
He said that on September 13 this year, investigations led to the arrest of Womba, who confessed to the crime and named Badu and others as his accomplices.
On September 21 of this year, an autopsy performed by one Dr. Owusu Afriyie, a pathologist at the Police Hospital, revealed that the cause of death included strangulation and alleged homicide.
Police intelligence led to Badu’s arrest in Ashiaman while efforts are under way to arrest the other accomplices.
The matter was postponed until November 18.
Meanwhile, Ebenezer Quaysie, the third suspect, has been taken into police custody to reappear on November 26.
The prosecution is optimistic that by the next postponed date, Nkansah would be medically fit for the case to be consolidated.
