We will ensure that case crumbles before it starts - DSP Tehoda's defence counsel
Accra, Feb. 14, 2012
Defence Counsel to DSP Gifty Mawunyegah Tehoda, the police woman at the centre of the cocaine swap controversey,says he will take the appropriate steps to make sure that court proceedings regarding his client's case "crumbles before it even starts.”
Emphrame Vordoagu, in an interview with e.tv Ghana news after his client was granted a GHC100, 000 bail by an Accra High Court yesterday, said the manner in which the case was being handled was a clear indication of abuse of powers.
“Powers are vested in state institutions and anytime these powers are being abused we can only run to the law for protection. This is a clear abuse of the vested powers of investigations in the state institution. You can see clearly that that charge will not stand in law and it has already been discredited,” he said.
DSP Tehoda was for the third time granted bail by an Accra High Court with two sureties, one to be justified after she was arrested and re-arrested by the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) over her role in the transformation of cocaine exhibits into baking soda. She is to report to the Police every Monday.
Her third bail was secured after her two defense lawyers, Oliver Dzeble and Emphrame Vordoagu, applied to the human rights to question the constitutional basis for her continuous detention, but the prosecution made a failed attempt to justify her detention.
Naadi Bitlegma, e.tv Ghana news
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