Justice Afia Serwah Asare Botwe, the judge presiding over the ambulance case, has ruled that the audio conversation between Richard Jakpa and the Attorney General did not reveal any instructions from Godfred Dame for Mr. Jakpa to implicate Ato Forson.
This was contained in her ruling following a motion brought before the court by Forson and Richard Jakpa seeking to halt prosecutions against them.
The content of the audio was the subject of applications brought before the court by two accused persons.
The two accused persons submitted the audio as exhibits in support of the application for mistrial by Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson.
But the judge dismissed the application for mistrial after he assessed the content of the recording.
She also dismissed the Attorney General’s objection to the tendering of the pen drive containing the audio.
The judge indicated that the conversation reveals an engagement between Richard Jakpa and Godfred Dame. However, the conversation does not support claims that the Attorney General asked Richard Jakpa to implicate Ato Forson.
She also found that the Attorney General did not make a statement that he needed the help of Richard Jakpa to implicate Ato Forson.
She noted that those claims were made by Richard Jakpa.
She described the contents of the audio as the words of Richard Jakpa.
She added that the only issue of discomfort is the fact that the Attorney General engaged with the accused, whom he is prosecuting, and the fact that he asked the accused to file a medical excuse.
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
