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By William Yaw Owusu
Wednesday January 19, 2011
The fourth prosecution witness (PW4) in the case of three people standing trial for allegedly conspiring to rob J.B. Danquah Adu, Ex-MP for Abuakwa North and Deputy Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs in the erstwhile Kufuor administration yesterday told an Accra Fast Track High Court that when he saw the former legislator he was not wearing anything except his boxer shorts.
The witness, Cyrus Antoh, a tanker owner told the court presided over by Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh: “JB was not wearing anything. He only had his boxers. I asked about his clothes and he said the second accused person and another had forcibly removed his clothes during a struggle and also stabbed him.”
Narteley Yirenkyiwaa Nettey aka Awura Ama, 24, the ex-Minister’s estranged girlfriend is standing trial together with Charles Antwi and Nana Yaw Ampaw as the first, second and third accused persons respectively and the police say the three conspired to rob the JB at the East Legon apartment of the lady on August 26, 2010.
The three have pleaded not guilty to three counts of conspiracy, causing harm and robbery and are still in police custody.
Led in evidence by Paul Asibi Abariga, a State Attorney, PW4 told the court that on August 26, 2010 he was driving home when he saw PW2 and PW3 struggling with Antwi in front of the house where the incident occurred so he parked and made enquiries.
“When I enquired, they told me that it was armed robbery and that someone had been killed upstairs”, adding “just as A2 (Antwi) was about to speak, A1 (Yirenkyiwaa) came to the scene and shouted at A2 not to say anything and rather asked us to arrest JB.”
He claimed that JB followed Yirenkyiwaa downstairs but was bleeding profusely so he removed his shirt to tie the wound for him.
“I then sat him down to find out what had happened and he told me that A2 and A3 forcibly removed his clothes containing some money and also wounded.”
He said the police after sometime came to the scene and took over the matter and he went home, changed and visited JB in the hospital but the ex-MP could not speak to him because he was sleeping.
During cross-examination by Kwabena Addo Attuah, counsel for Yirenkyiwaa, PW4 insisted that JB told him it was Antwi and Ampong who forcibly removed his clothes despite JB’s own earlier evidence that “A1 (Yirenkyiwaa) unzipped me.”
Counsel: You told this court in your evidence-in-chief that PW1 (JB) told you his clothes have forcibly been taken away from him
Witness: Yes my Lord
Counsel: was it the same person that you claimed told you who had been killed
Witness: Those I came to assist told me that somebody had been killed upstairs.
Counsel: Was it the same man that came downstairs in a pair of boxer shorts.
Witness: Yes.
Counsel: Did he resurrect.
Witness: Yes…but the explanation is that he was actually killed.
Counsel: Are you aware that he (JB) testified in this court.
Witness: I know he gave evidence
Counsel: Are you aware he told this court that his clothes were not forcibly taken away from him
Witness: He told me the accused persons collected his clothes so if he comes here and did not say it then that is up to him.
Counsel: I suggest to you that nobody took his clothes off
Witness: What PW1 (JB) told me is what I have told the court.
Counsel: You told this court that PW1 (JB) was bleeding profusely.
Witness: Yes…my shirt even got soaked.
Counsel: Did he collapse
Witness: He did not but was weak
Counsel: So that when you said when you got to the hospital he had collapsed was a lie.
Witness: I could not speak to him.
Counsel: You were not there when the injury occurred
Witness: I was not there. I met them at the roadside.
When C.K. Mintah, counsel for Antwi and Ampaw took his turn, the witness told the court that he enquired from JB what had happened to him when he tied the ex-MP’s wounds for him.
Counsel: When you enquired about what had happened to A1 what did he say.
Witness: He said those people forced his clothes off him and cut his hand.
Counsel: were those who inflicted the wound around?
Witness: A2 (Antwi) was there.
Counsel: Did you ask for the reason?
Witness: No.
Sitting continues on February 2, 2011.
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