Court discharges DSP Tehodah

Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gifty Maweunyega Tehodah, the Police Officer at the centre of the alleged cocaine swapping scandal was on Thursday discharged unconditionally by an Accra Circuit Court due to the prosecution’s inability to start the case.

This follows the court’s warning at the last sitting for the prosecution to start the matter, failure of which would indicate the State was not ready to prosecute the case and the court would be compelled to discharge the accused.

Mr Francis Obiri, the trial judge, who on countless occasions had warned the State to start proceedings, said he had listen to the prosecution’s submissions that they were opposed to the accused unconditional discharge.

He subsequently strike out the case and discharged the accused unconditionally.

Mr Anthony Rexford Wiredu, Principal State Attorney earlier in his submission said the State was not opposed to the unconditional discharge of the accused.

He said the State was unable to begin the case due to some prevailing circumstances and efforts to arrest some key persons relating to the matter.

Mr Wiredu said the security agencies were still unearthing every aspect of the matter and due to security reasons they would not want to talk much on the matter.

Mr Ephraim A. Vorduagu, Counsel for DSP Tehodah said the defence was happy that the prosecution and the investigations were virtually getting to the bottom of the matter.

Source: GNA