Lawyer for senior nursing officer Salomey Awiti Bafoh, Enoch Anhwere Afoakwa, has questioned the Ghana Police Service’s identification of the person behind the social media account known as “Ghana Jollof.”
Mr Afoakwa, a legal practitioner and member of the NPP legal team, described as embarrassing what he says are conflicting identities attributed to “Ghana Jollof” in different police cases.
According to him, a charge sheet filed by the Police in May 2025 identified Alberta Okrah as “Ghana Jollof” and listed her as being at large.
However, he said, in the current case involving his client, the Police have identified Barbara Asantewaa Kodua as “Ghana Jollof,” also listed as being at large.
“Who is Ghana Jollof?” he questioned.
“The embarrassment that the Ghana Police Service is telling the whole world is that we don’t have any intelligence institution to be able to run cogent investigations to identify…” he said.
Mr Afoakwa said the 2025 charge sheet named three accused persons, with Alberta Okrah listed as the second accused and described as “Alberta Okrah, alias Ghana Jollof, at large.”
He contrasted this with the charge sheet involving Ms Bafoh, in which the Police named Barbara Asantewaa Kodua as “Ghana Jollof.”
He said the matter was even more significant because the Police had indicated that their investigations traced electronic money transactions allegedly linked to the person behind the account.
“So the Ghana Police Service, not a district police service, not a town police station, but the national headquarters of the police CID, could charge a certain Ghana Jollof as Alberta Okrah and again charge a certain Ghana Jollof as Barbara Asantewaa Kodua,” he said.
Mr Afoakwa also referred to social media reports alleging that Barbara Asantewaa Kodua had died, but stressed that he was not relying on those reports as established fact.
He said if the reports were confirmed, they would raise further questions about the identity the Police have attributed to the “Ghana Jollof” account.
