Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Tuesday January 18, 2011
The caretaker of the house where three persons including the estranged girlfriend of JB Danquah Adu, Ex-MP for Abuakwa North and Deputy Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs under the erstwhile Kufuor administration allegedly attempted to rob the former legislator says he is not in a position to tell what really transpired in the room where the incident happened.
Emmanuel Kwame Okaompah Amoako, testifying as the third prosecution witness (PW3) on Friday told the Accra Fast Track High Court trying the case “I am not in a position to know what happened between Mr. JB and the accused persons because I was not in the room.”
Narteley Yirenkyiwaa Nettey aka Awura Ama, 24, the ex-Minister’s estranged girlfriend is standing trial together with Charles Antwi and Nana Yaw Ampaw; 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, Amoako who says he is a steel bender told the court presided over by Justice Mustapha Habib Logoh that on August 26, 2010 between 9:30 and 10pm he heard somebody screaming for help and quickly rushed upstairs only to find Narteley’s window opened.
He said together with the security man (PW2) he knocked on the door and Ampaw (A3) came out with clothes hanging on his shoulder and when he enquired from him, he (A3) said “they are killing somebody in the room,” and descended the staircase.
“We were afraid to enter the room and as we stood there, Antwi (A2) also came out and said some people are fighting in the room and had blood stains in his shirt,” PW3 told the court.
He said he asked the security man to escort Antwi downstairs whilst he tried to enter the room but when he did; he hurriedly came out and descended the stairs because the security man had shouted for him to come down and help apprehend Antwi who was trying to run away.
Amoako told the court that when Antwi was overpowered and brought to the main gate of the house, a neighbour called Kwadwo Cyrus came around to help them and JB then came down, followed by Narteley.
He claimed when the police came around Narteley tried to go upstairs to lock her room but a policeman ordered her to allow the security man (PW2) to do it.
During cross-examination by Kwabena Addo Attuah, PW3 insisted that he entered the room where the incident occurred but the inmates did not see him.
Counsel: You never entered the room where the shouts were coming from
Witness: I entered but could not get to where they were.
Counsel: I suggest to you that you never entered the room
Witness: I entered but because I could not get to where they were they did not see me.
Counsel: I am still suggesting to you that you did not enter the room.
Witness: I can say it is not true because nobody saw me.
Counsel: You are not in a position to know what went on in the room.
Witness: Yes, because I was not there.
Counsel: You said when A3 was coming out of the room he was holding some clothes
Witness: Yes
Counsel: Was he naked
Witness: He was wearing jeans with white singlet.
Counsel: Describe what he was holding
Witness: I saw a black dress
Counsel: Tell the court the kind of black dress
Witness: He had folded it
Counsel: Could it have been his own shirt.
Witness: I cannot tell.
Counsel: Your story that A3 was holding a dress is a lie
Witness: That is not correct
Counsel: It was A1 herself who went to lock her room and not PW2
Witness: It was PW2
Sitting continues on today, January 18, 2011.
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