Supt. Tehoda
An Accra Human Rights has set March 16, 2017 to deliver its judgement in the case in which DSP Gifty Mawuenyega Tehoda is battling the Ghana Police Service over her wrongful dismissal.
The court, presided over Gifty Agyei-Addo, set the date after it granted an application by lawyers of embattled former Police Chief to adopt proceedings and the addresses in the court of the now dismissed High Court Judge, Justice Kofi Essel Mensah.
At the last sitting, the court ordered that hearing notice be served on the Attorney-General in the case.
This was necessitated by the absence of State Attorneys at the hearing due to an ongoing strike over their conditions of service.
The case involving DSP Tehoda began in September 2011 when one Nana Ama Martins was arrested for possessing large parcels suspected to be cocaine, which later turned into bicarbonate or baking soda.
DSP Tehoda was linked to the disappearance of the cocaine and she was interdicted and subsequently dismissed from the Police Service.
However, an Accra Circuit Court consequently acquitted and discharged her of any criminality.
DSP Tehoda sued the Police Service for wrongful dismissal.
She is praying the court to compel the Service to reinstate and compensate her for her loss over the past six years.
Both parties in the suit completed their case before the previous judge Kofi Essel Mensah was dismissed as a result of his involvement in the Anas Aremeyaw Anas judicial bribery and corruption scandal documentary.
She is seeking a declaration that her prosecution by the State over the alleged swapping of cocaine was malicious and asked to be compensated for her dismissal.
DSP Tehoda also wants a declaration that her detention in cells beyond 48 hours by the BNI was unlawful.
By Jeffrey De-Graft Johnson
jeffdegraft44@yahoo.com