DSP Mawuenyegah files for bail
The interdicted Deputy Head of the Commercial Crimes Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service, DSP Mrs Gifty Mawuenyegah Tehoda, who is at the centre of the cocaine-turn-sodium carbonate saga, has applied for bail at the Human Rights Court.
Mrs Tehoda, who was remanded by the Accra Circuit Court on one count of abetment of stealing of cocaine on January 17, 2012, was not present at the Human Rights Court.
The presiding judge, Mr Justice U. P. Dery, drew the attention of counsel for Mrs Tehoda, Mr Oliver Dzeble, to some technical errors in the docket and, accordingly, advised him to rectify them.
As a result of that development, the court could not hear her case.
Details of the bail application were not made available. A new date is yet to be fixed for the hearing of the bail application.
On January 17, 2012, Mrs Tehoda pleaded not guilty to one count of abetment of stealing of cocaine and was remanded by the circuit court to reappear on February 6, 2012.
The court declined bail application by counsel for the accused.
The accused person was handed over to the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI) by the police on December 29, 2011 on suspicious dealings with Nana Ama Martins after she (Nana Martins) had been re-arrested in July 2011.
Nana Martins was acquitted and discharged by the Accra Circuit Court of the charge of possessing cocaine in the trial which was aborted after the court had upheld a submission of ‘no case’ made by her counsel.
Source: Daily Graphic
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