Ashaiman killing – Charges against the four suspects in the murder of late military officer Trooper Imoro Sherif have been dropped by the Ghana Police Service.
In an operation driven by intelligence, the police detained six suspects, including the four.
Four of the six people were charged with theft, robbery, and dishonest receiving, and the other two were brought before a Tema District Court for their roles in the murder.
Safianu Musah aka Dayorgu, Ibrahim Rakib, Yusif Mohammed, and Abdul Gafaru Abdul Karim are the four defendants.
Samuel Tetteh, aka Wiper, and Abubakar Sadick, aka Naadu or Birdman, are the two people accused of murder.
Abdul Fatawu, the fourth attorney, claimed that they were in court to request bail for the other three defendants but that the prosecutor had dropped all charges against them all.
“The four, part from the two, the remaining are being charged for dishonesty receiving and so we have been coming to court. The last time we secured bail for one. We were hoping to secure bail for the remaining four accused persons as far we are concern. But we came today prepared to fight our bail application once again only to have a very short business. The business being that, prosecution has indicated to the court that they are redrawing the charges against the said accused persons,” he said.
He clarified that the attorney general’s actions against his clients are legal and constitutional.
“As we stand now, we are not being held for any crime and so they are supposed to be free men. As far as the constitution is concerned Act 88 of the constitution gives the Attorney General the power to institute criminal charges against any persons it deems fit and base on the evidences against you or not same act 30 also gives them power to withdraw charges that they have leveled against people,” he added.
