Kwabena Adu-Boahene
The embattled former Director-General of the National Signals Bureau (NSB), Kwabena Adu-Boahene, has filed an application before a High Court demanding the Attorney General to provide information on claims of stolen cars allegedly found in his fleet of rental cars.
This disclosure, according to his lawyer, Samuel Atta Akyea, is to fight off allegations that his client had bought stolen cars which he was in turn renting out.
Deputy Attorney General, Dr. Justice Srem-Sai during case management conference, had told the court that one of the prosecution witnesses would be tendering documents to show that some of the vehicles confiscated from Adu-Boahene’s luxury car rental business; Dream Enterprise Collections Limited, are on the list of stolen vehicles from Canada and the US.
The prosecution’s third witness, Frank Marshall Cromwell, is expected to tender those documents, but the lawyer says there is the need for the prosecution to disclose further documents apart from what has already been provided to them.
“I want to find out who brought the vehicle in and whether tax was paid or not, because there is an allegation that my client has acquired a stolen vehicle. So, I want the disclosure on that so that I fight it off,” Mr. Atta Akyea told reporters after court last Friday.
Mr. Adu-Boahene is before the court together with wife, Angela Adjei-Boateng and two others for allegedly stealing GH¢49.1 million from the state in a purported deal to procure a cybersecurity system for the country.
The two together with Mildred Donkor and Advantage Solutions Limited are facing 11 counts of conspiracy to commit crime, stealing, using public office for profit, money laundering and causing financial loss to the state.
Lawyer Headache
The court, presided over by Justice Eugene Nyante Nyadu, has warned Mildred Donkor to either find a lawyer before Tuesday, July 29 sitting or be prepared to cross-examine the first prosecution witness herself.
The accused person decided to withdraw the services of Mr. Atta Akyea as her lawyer, indicating her intention for a change of representation.
However, she was unable to get a new lawyer before last Friday’s sitting. The trial judge therefore asked her to cross-examine the witness herself, but she said “My Lord, I can’t do it.”
“Let me warn you for the last time. If by the next adjourned date you do not have counsel, you will do the cross-examination yourself, no matter what, you will do it. You hear me,” Justice Nyadu warned.
Meanwhile, Mr. Atta Akyea had indicated his readiness to represent Madam Donkor if she decides to rehire him.
“I will consider representing her because there was no bad blood. I do not know what was running through her mind concerning this matter. If she doesn’t find a lawyer and she believes that I should soldier on for her, I’ll do that because I don’t think there was any problem that we had,” Mr. Atta Akyea indicated.
BY Gibril Abdul Razak