Leaked audio: Be ready to open defence in Ofosu-Ampofo’s absence – Court to Kwaku Boahen

His lead lawyer, Tony Lithur told the court, presided over by Justice Samuel Asiedu, a Justice of the Supreme Court sitting with an additional responsibility as a High Court judge, that the first accused (Ofosu-Ampofo) is still out of the country.

Asked by the Court of the reason, Mr Lithur said, “when I spoke to him before the last adjourned date, he said he was due for a follow-up minor surgery in the first week of April.”.

Counsel also told the Court that, the first accused had “since had the surgery.”.

The Court said, “the matter has suffered adjournments due to the absence of the first accused,”.

The Court said, “If the first accused is not around then the second accused has to open his defence.”.

The court said there would be nothing wrong if the second accused was heard in the absence of the first accused

In the absence of the first accused, we can hear the second accused,” the judge said, adding that, “There is nothing wrong with it.”