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General news for Monday, November 9, 2020
Source: GNA
2020-11-09
Professor Emmanuel Yaw Benneh, Assassinated University of Ghana Professor
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 Ms. Ama Adomako Kwaakye also ordered the Police to treat Opambour Agya Badu Nkansah well, the second suspect who is also admitted to the Police Hospital and who should not be treated below what is given to him. offers to all.
However, he submitted a request for bail filed by Emmanuel Larbi Amoah, Nkansah’s defense attorney.
The court order came after Amoah had denounced his client’s condition, saying he feared he would not get over his pain if care was not taken.
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 him, adding that “it is not good for the eyes.”
The defense attorney reported that Nkansah did not resist arrest and was sent to the Regional Police Command and interrogated, although he denied the crime. Nkansah was injured, tortured and ill-treated just to have his precautionary statement taken.
The lawyer said he feared that a similar announcement about the death of James Nana Womba, the first defendant, could also be made in the Nkansah case.
Amoah told the court that Nkansah’s “state and form” was being destroyed from knee to ankle level.
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 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 was safe for Nkansah.
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 chimed in saying, “I was there Thursday and they gave him blood. A call was made to the hometown of Nkansah for someone to come and donate blood.
Tribunal: So how is (A2) Nkansah’s status?
Investigator: “My lady A2 is fine, as the Prosecutor’s Office told the court.”
James Nana Womba, the first defendant, is said to have died a couple of days ago while in legal custody.
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 such as murder and 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.
In another development, Ebenezer Quaysie, the third suspect has been taken into police custody to reappear on November 26.
The prosecution was optimistic that by the next postponed date, Nkansah would be in medical condition for the case to be consolidated.
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