ON BAIL! Christian Agyei
CHRISTIAN AGYEI, the 24-year-old
houseboy accused of having a hand in the murder of
Josephine Asante-Tanoh, the Marketing and Public Affairs Manager of Ghana Ports
and Harbours Authority (GPHA), has secured bail at the Criminal Division of the
Accra High Court.
He was granted bail in
the sum of GH₵200,000 with two
sureties, one to be justified, after being denied on two occasions by the same court.
However, the
bail is yet to be executed due to strict administrative procedures associated
with such situations.
Baba Jamal,
counsel of the accused person, told the TDC Magistrate Court in Tema that
although he personally handed over a copy of the bail letter from the Registrar
of the High Court to the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the Ghana
Police Service in Accra, the police are yet to act on it.
The houseboy of
the deceased was arrested after he was found burying a cash sum of GH¢430 and a
wrist watch at the crime scene on the day of incident.
Christian Agyei
and Amos Aprako (the official driver of the deceased) are facing provisional charge
of murder at the TDC Magistrate Court.
Apraku, a staff
of GPHA in March 2019, secured a bail of GH₵200,000 with two sureties, one to be justified, but Agyei was denied
by the court.
Meanwhile,
information gathered by the DAILY GUIDE indicates that the
accused person is using a property at Alhaji, a suburb of Accra, as part of the
process to secure bail but the police are yet to visit the property for him to
be released.
The Magistrate
Court presided over by Mrs. Akosua A. Adjepong, therefore, ordered prosecution
to ensure that the necessary processes are followed to grant the suspect bail.
The court
further asked the police not to adopt ‘delay tactics’ to extend the suspect’s
stay in custody.
Case Docket
The prosecutor, Inspector Cecelia Mensah,
who held a briefing for the substantive prosecutor (Inspector Beatrice Arye)
told a Tema Magistrate Court that a duplicate docket on the
alleged on the murder of Mrs. Josephine Asante-Tanoh has been forwarded to the
Attorney General’s (A-G) Department for advice.
She said that the
police are waiting for the said advice from the A-G to determine the way
forward for the case.
The public
affairs manager of the Tema Port was brutally killed at her Emefs Estate home
near Afienya in the Ningo-Prampram District of the Greater Accra Region on
January 13, 2019.
She had reportedly
returned from a senior staff-end-of year party organised by the GPHA, only to
be killed by her assailants.
From Vincent Kubi, Tema
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