The Battle of wits at the Human Rights Division of an Accra Fast Track High Court in a case filed by DSP Gifty Mawunyagah Tehoda challenging her wrongful dismissal from the Ghana Police Service is over as lawyers in the case have been ordered to file their written addresses by September 28, 2015.
The court presided over by Justice Kofi Essel Mensah has adjourned the case to October 6, 2015 for the parties to appear to take the date for judgement on the matter.
At the last adjourned date, the parties were directed to obtain the records of proceedings by July 14, 2015 which they did prompting the court to adjourn the case.
Prior to parties closing their case, the prosecution had hoped to call one more witness in the person of COP Rose Bio Atinga to testify in the matter, but she failed to appear, hence, the official closure of the state’s case.
DSP Tehoda has sued the Ghana Police Service over her ‘unlawful dismissal,’ at an Accra Human Rights Court.
Lawyers for the dismissed Police Chief, DSP Tehoda, have sued the Police Service for dismissing their client. They have described her dismissal as illegal and an affront to Ghana’s judicial system.
DSP Tehoda was accused of swapping cocaine exhibit in the custody of the police. She was interdicted, but later cleared by the courts of all wrong doings.
The Police Service failed to reinstate her after she was cleared by the court stating that an internal inquiry was being conducted to prove if she was innocent in the controversial cocaine turned baking soda scandal. She was charged for abetment of crime and was subsequently released by the Ghana Police Service.
DSP Tehoda in 2012 allegedly assisted one Nana Ama Martins, a suspected cocaine dealer, to escape prosecution after a cocaine exhibit amazingly turned into baking soda at the Police Headquarters.
The Bureau of National Investigations arrested her to help unravel the mystery surrounding how 120 kilogrammes of cocaine turned into a baking soda.
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