Key Witness In Ofosu Ampofo Trial Denies Own Statement In Court

A key witness in the trial of the national Chairman of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), this morning pulled the carpet from under the feet of prosecutors, when he shunned his own supposed witness statement in court.

The witness, who is a broadcaster with the Multimedia Group’s Adom FM station, denied the witness statement that Police attributed to him, throwing the State completely off-guard.

The denial has also since raised questions about forgery, impersonation and witness tampering.

Mr. Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, the NDC national Chairman, it would be recalled, was last year invited by the Police over allegations that he was grandfathering attempts to destabilize the country through alleged kidnappings, arson and verbal attacks on some high profile national personalities.
The plot was said to have been discovered through a secretly recorded audio in which Mr. Ofosu-Ampfo was allegedly heard saying the NDC would mount verbal attacks on Chairman of the Peace Council, Rev. Prof. Emmanuel Asante, and the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission, Jean Mensah.

He is said to have had the NDC’s Deputy Director of Communications, Anthony Kwaku Boahene, who has also been charged, as co-conspirator.

However, today, when court sat and the prosecution called its first witness, the witness responded and duly entered the dock, but revealed that the witness statement attributed to him was not from him.

According to the witness, he had never authored any such statement and that the only thing he remembers is that, last year June, a Police officer approached him in his office when he was preparing to read news, and handed him a document to sign.

He had signed that document without reading its content. Consequently, the signature on the witness statement was his but the content of that document did not come from him.

The shocking development eventually led to an adjournment of the case to the 6th of February.

Meanwhile, the prosecution also provoked protest from Kwaku Boahene when it tendered in an audio tape as part of the State’s evidence, as Mr. Boahene noted that he had not been given a copy of the tape.