Former NAFCO boss trial: Court orders amendment of 2 counts, dismisses strike-out application

Despite dismissing this ground in principle, the court found that Count 14, the count on defrauding by false pretence against Aludiba, did not give reasonable information, as it failed to state that he had made a representation he knew to be false or did not know to be true.

Grounds On the first ground, which the applicant's lawyer, Godfred Yeboah Dame, argued that the charges lacked the specific details needed for Aludiba to understand and defend himself, the court found that the prosecution was only required to provide particulars giving reasonable information as to the nature of the charge.

On the argument that the prosecution had improperly combined distinct offences into single counts, the court held that no charge combined a series of separate offences into one count.