The affair on the burner for the day, Monday, July 29, 2024, was the assay of the Chief of Defence Staff, Lieutenant General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, by the Attorney-General as able-bodied as the attorneys of Richard Jakpa and Ato Forson, the two accused bodies in the case.
The three acknowledged teams took turns to catechize Lieutenant General Thomas Oppong-Peprah, but it was that of Dr. Abdul Bassit Bamba, the advance admonition for Ato Forson, that produced some acrimonious moments amid him and the authoritative judge.
The aboriginal affray amid Justice Afia Serwaa Asare-Botchwey and Dr. Bamba was back Dr. Bamba asked the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Godfred Dame, to angle up so that he could be articular by the witness.
Justice Afia Serwaa Asare-Botchwey did not booty attentive to that move by Dr. Bamba and accustomed an actual acknowledgment from him.
"It was nothing. I'm cat-and-mouse for your apology. You do these things, and it's like all these apparel and things bodies accept been watching. It is nothing," she said.
Dr. Bamba anon apologized, and the adjudicator readily accustomed the acknowledgment and asked him to continue.
Another adventure of affray amid Dr. Bamba and the adjudicator was a catechism Dr. Bamba asked, which the adjudicator believed to be below of his acquaintance and ability in the acknowledged fraternity.
Justice Afia Serwaa Asare-Botchwey, who accepted to accepting huge account for the accomplishments and acquaintance of Dr. Bamba, questioned why he would ask the CDS about the Attorney-General's intentions for prosecuting Ato Forson.
"Let me ask you this catechism because I consistently like the Sunday academy approach. Why do you anticipate somebody who aloof said that he has not been afterward this affair because he is on the bound altercation in Burkina is declared to apperceive the motive for the balloon of your client?
"I can never advise you because you apperceive far added than I do. What I'm adage is that you apperceive actual able-bodied this catechism care not to be directed to this witness, and you apperceive that. We accept all gone above that. So please, for that question, alike if the Attorney-General hasn't aloft the objection, I'd accept told you not to land. And alike you, back you were allurement the question, you were aggravating adamantine not to smile. Why do you do that?" she quizzed.
The case at the High Cloister has been abeyant afterward the cardinal by the Cloister of Appeal.
Meanwhile, the Attorney-General, Godfred Dame, has appear his intentions to address the cardinal by the Cloister of Appeal.
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