Question Marks Over Video And Audio Evidences Submitted In Treason Trial

Lawyers of the ten persons accused of plotting to overthrow the Akufo-Addo government have requested for the full ruling delivered by the Accra High Court hearing the case.

The request is to apparently enable them understand the bench hearing the case would admit the videos and audios as evidence even though there are indications that the evidence may have been forged, WhatsUp News has heard.

According to information picked up, Sergeant Kojo Awarf, who is the principal witness in the case may have tampered with the evidence from source.

It is said that one of the video recordings submitted as evidence of supposed secret recording from the meetings of the alleged coup plotters showed a timestamp from 2013 when the NDC was in power and could not have been a scheme to overthrow the New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.

From the narration of the coup plot, the Akufo-Addo government has alleged that the coup plotters began their plot in 2018, five years from what the timestamps from the video indicate.

On Monday, all defense lawyers had rejected the admissibility of the evidence. However, on Tuesday, the panel bench hearing the case, ruled that the evidence is admissible.

The judges Hafsa Amaliba, Stephen Oppong and presided by Afia Serwaa Asare Botwe.

Meanwhile, Sergeant Awarf, was on Tuesday discovered to be a prosecution witness with problematic credibility issues. First, he is said to have enlisted into the army with forged certificates and then lied about his supposed attendance of a Bechem Technical School.

The State’s star witness is also revealed to be a murder suspect under investigation by the Police after it was revealed he had killed somebody at Amasaman in 2020.

Questions have been raised as to how a murder suspect could be out and about freely. 

The accused persons in the supposed coup plot are Dr Mac Palm, Bright Alan Debrah, Kafui Donyo, alias Ezor, Johannes Zikpi, Colonel Samuel Kojo Gameli, Warrant Officer Class II Esther Saan, Corporal Abubakar, Lance Corporal Ali Solomon, Corporal Sylvester Akanpewe, Assistant Commissioner of Police Benjamin Kwasi Agorzo are facing varied charges such as conspiracy to commit a crime, high treason, possession of arms and abetment.

They have denied the charges and are on bail being tried by a panel of three Justices;