The two men linked to the murder of a former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa-North, Mr J.B. Danquah-Adu, were Tuesday morning discharged by the Accra High Court following the filing of a Nolle prosequi by the Attorney General, Graphic Online's Emmanuel Ebo Hawkson reports from court.
Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso, the two men who standing trial in connection to the murder were subsequently set free by the court.
The filing of nolle prosequi meant the Attorney General wanted to discontinue with the prosecution.
Ebo Hawkson reported from the court that a Senior State Attorney, Ms Sefakor Batsa, told the court that based on section 54 of the criminal and other offences Act , 1960 (Act 30) the AG had filed a nolle prosequi not to continue with the prosecution.
When the two men last appeared at the Criminal Division of the Accra High Court two weeks ago, the case was adjourned for the empaneling of a jury for the trial.
A jury was expected to be constituted a week earlier, but the prosecution pleaded with the court for an adjournment to enable it to deal with certain issues.
The prosecutor told the court at its last sitting that there was a new development in the prosecution’s case which needed to be addressed.
She, however, did not inform the court about the new development then.
"Under the circumstances, we pray the court to grant an adjournment to enable us to deal with the new issues," she said.
Counsel for the two accused persons (Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso), Mr Muniru Kassim, did not object to the prosecution's request last week.
Charges
Asiedu was facing three counts of murder, conspiracy to commit robbery and robbery, while Bosso had been charged with conspiracy to commit robbery.
The facts, as presented by the prosecution, are that on February 8, 2016, Asiedu and Bosso decided to embark on a robbery operation at Shiashie, a suburb of East Legon, where the MP resided.
Asiedu selected the MP’s house, but Bosso disagreed and decided to abandon the robbery operation.
About 11:40 p.m., the MP arrived home and went to bed in a room located on the first floor of his house.
About 1 a.m. that same night, Asiedu, armed with a catapult, a cutter and a sharp knife, went to the legislator’s house. He entered the house by scaling the wall on the blind side of a security man who was fast asleep.
On entering the house, Asiedu climbed onto a porch on the top floor with a ladder and entered the MP’s bedroom through a window.
While Asiedu was searching the room, the MP woke up and held him. There ensued a struggle, during which Asiedu stabbed the MP in the right chest above the breast. Asiedu also sustained various injuries in his palm and chest.
The legislator fell by his bed, bleeding profusely, after which Asiedu stabbed him several times on the right chest and neck.
On realising that the MP was dying, Asiedu left the room and took with him three iPhones.
Meanwhile, the struggle between the MP and Asiedu drew the attention of the security man in the house who alerted others in the neighbourhood.
Asiedu, however, managed to descend; he jumped over the electric fencing on the walls of the house into an adjoining house and escaped.
Asiedu then took the phones to a phone repairer to decode them, but the repairer saw bloodstains and the pictures of the MP on the phones and alerted the police.
Source: graphic.com.gh
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Next will be wayome. Did you know opuni is free and all his account unfrozen. Eboboba
My dear party is repeating or let me say even doing worse than the NDC. Mr. President please eyes are watching oooo. Ayoooooo.
hahaha, dont be suprise guys if they are freed, we know law too much and we are too hury to catch the air rather to solve problems.even if they are re arrested, its a failure in the part of the AG except she comes to say again she wasnt aware., infact am begining to loose hope in the nana 3 pack i know from 1992 in prof adu boahene days, is ghana better in nana 3 pack days or was better under mahama, infact nana you have faailed so far, better reschuffle, bring the good old wine ie the ministers in kuffour era to shape the country, seem nothing is happening in Ghana at all, too many tactical corrections, its time to shake the country or you ready to confirm the coup prophecy by prophet owusu bempah?
Your name even shows how ediot you are? Is the current AG department under the CPP government? Fuuuull, you ones associated everything with mahama, but today you think Npp has nothing to do with this.
hey oooooooooooooooo npp is what you doing to your won npp member.
Who killed JB Danquah.......... the president's family member...hmmmmmmmmm
The NPP and the police knows the real murderers are about to be brought to book soon folks so calm down. We have security footage and confession as who murdered the former MP. This boys are innocent and we are working to bring the real culprit to justice. We are not playing games with one of our own for if we do his blood shall be on our heads and we forbid that. Thanks and we would be back to pull the curtains on the opposition murderers who were so close to the former president but that doesn't mean the former president was involved its was just some people around him.
Let us control our emotions. What has NPP got to do with this? The Attorney Generals Department is saying they want to discontinue the case. They are not obliged to give reasons. It has been indicated that there is a new 'twist' to the case let us wait to find out what it is. This is not a question of NPP. If anything at all the prosecution will be the best to explain the AG then had justification for prosecution to be effected and subsequent trial.
Hmmmmmm, this world is wonderful today people are free to kill and goes free.God is watching
We need more information! How did he die? Wasn't he murdered? Please we need explanation.