The case which dates aback to 2015, approved to arraign the accused bodies for allegedly causing banking accident of €2.37 actor to the State in a accord to acquirement 200 ambulances for the country amid 2014 and 2016.
GhanaWeb provides the above highlights of the balloon afore the Cloister of Appeal's ruling:
1. Leaked audio band of Godfred Dame and Richard Jakpa
On May 28, 2024 an audio band fabricated its way into parliament. The audio band allegedly captured the Attorney General attempting to beset Richard Jakpa into implicating Dr. Ato Forson in the advancing trial.
More capacity independent in the 16-minute-long audio recording showed the Attorney General instructing Jakpa, the third accused, to access an alibi assignment to adjournment the proceedings.
Additionally, Dame allegedly brash Jakpa to use the adjournment to facilitate his biking plans.
Excerpts of the chat on the band are as follows:
Dame in audio: "And then, alike abutting week, the accomplished of abutting week, I'll not be around. Yes, I will be off. If you don't accomplishment abutting week, I would acknowledge it."
Jakpa retorted: "Oh, no, no. I'll not accomplishment abutting week. I don't anticipate I'll be able to accomplishment because the abstracts are many. So, you will absolutely go and appear and accommodated me. But that will additionally depend aloft the judge's behaviour."
Mr Dame again: "You can accompany one of the medical excuses abutting week."
2. Dismissal letter of Richard Jakpa
A adjournment letter of Richard Jakpa from the Ghana Armed Forces was tendered as affirmation by the Deputy Attorney-General, Alfred Tuah-Yeboah.
The letter independent allegations of delinquency and aperture of aggressive protocols arch to Jakpa's adjournment from the army.
Further capacity appear how Jakpa consistently bootless his promotional exams (PROMEX) as able-bodied as actuality accountable to assorted bodies and institutions.
3. Subpoena for Chief of Defence Staff to testify
Lawyers for Richard Jakpa subpoenaed the CDS Lieutenant General Thomas Oppong-Peprah to affirm afterward the prosecution's absolution of Jakpa's adjournment letter as evidence.
The letter, which was appear to the Minister of Defence, Dominic Nitiwul bore the signature of the Chief of Defence Staff.
However, the CDS during a cantankerous assay denied absolution the letter to the Minister of Defence.
He antiseptic the affairs surrounding the adjournment of Richard Jakpa advertence he was appear from the aggressive due to a connected abridgement of ability or absorption in his duties.
"The said above administrator of the military, Richard Jakpa, was appear based on abridgement of ability or interest," he told the court.
4. Adjudicator warns adjoin media commentary
The authoritative judge, Justice Afia Serwah Asare-Botwe warned attorneys of the accused bodies and bodies complex to burden from authoritative annotation in the media that will ageism the balloon or face activity to jail.
"You admission interviews afterwards cloister and abounding of you are on the ambiguous of antipathy of court. I accept told you several times to abandon from it.
"What we are accomplishing is not acceptable for the country.
"It is bad for the country. It is bad for security. It is bad for aphorism of law. It is aloof not acceptable for anyone," Justice Asare-Botwe said.
The cardinal by the Appeals Cloister squashes every allegation slapped on the accused persons.
Meanwhile, Attorney General Godfred Dame has hinted at ambrosial the cardinal at the accomplished court, the Supreme Court.
Some Ghanaian personalities altercate that the case was a witch coursing which should accept never started in the aboriginal place.
MAG/MA