Prosecution In Suame NDC Youth Organiser’s Case Asks For More Time
The prosecution handling the case of the Suame NDC Youth Organiser, Razak Kuampa Avoliya, has asked for more time to file all disclosures it intends to rely on for the trial.
The prosecution prayed to the Asokwa Circuit Court for a three-week extension.
Earlier, the team told the court that it would serve all disclosures to the defence counsel, but they failed to do so when the case was called on Thursday, March 9.
Counsel for the Suame NDC Youth Organiser, Evans Amankwah, who spoke to the media after court proceedings, said the prosecution wants more time to transcribe the audio file.
“As we indicated at the last adjourned date, the court ordered that the prosecution should serve us with their witness statement and disclosures, but they couldn’t.
“Their excuse was that they were trying to transcribe the content of the video from Twi to English, and they have not done that, so the court adjourned the case to April 4, 2023, by which time they would have served the court with their witness statements and disclosures,” he indicated.
But the National Organiser of the NDC, Joseph Yammin, said this was just a ploy by the prosecution to delay the trial deliberately.
“If, for a month, the prosecution is unable to transcribe a video that is less than 10 minutes, then it baffles me to believe that the police are taking the case seriously. It is an indication that the police just don’t want this case to go away anytime soon.
“The police came to court and said that they should remand him [Mr. Avoliya] and that they are doing some investigations and I don’t know which investigations they are talking about when he said he is the one in the video and that is his voice, this could only be a delay tactic,” Mr Yammin further stressed.
The accused was said to have made some political statements that sought to incite violence ahead of the 2024 general elections in a viral video.
The police intercepted the viral video and identified Kuampa as the suspect, making those unpalatable comments likely to threaten national security.
He is currently on GH¢50K bail.