THE COUNSEL for Amina Mohammed, the woman who was at the center of the infamous mass rape incident on a Tamale-bound Yutong bus at Kubease near Ejisu in the Ashanti Region, has threatened to sue the state for unduly traumatizing his client.
Amina was acquitted and discharged on Monday by an Accra Circuit Court presided over by Mrs. Patience Mills-Tetteh, after the court observed that the prosecution had failed to make a case against her.
This followed a submission of no case filed by Amina�s lawyer that the prosecution could not establish the basis for the charges preferred against her that she had caused fear and panic with the alleged story.
Andy Appiah Kubi, lawyer for Amina, told Ash FM, a Kumasi-based radio station in an interview that his client had been unduly traumatized by the state for the one-and-half years the case had been pending at the court.
He therefore stated that now that the court had found out that the charges leveled against his client had no basic ingredient, the state needed to compensate Amina for the trauma she went through during the trial.
Lawyer Appiah Kubi told the station that he would institute the required suit against the state with the view to seeking adequate compensation for his client.
He noted that it was highly unacceptable for the state to take somebody through a harrowing experience for one-and-half years, only for the court to say that the person was innocent.
Lawyer Appiah Kubi stated that it was about time the state was told that it could not traumatize people and go scot-free.
He said apart from the incarceration of Amina, she suffered a huge public abuse and also lost her marriage as well as her three children due to the false charge the state preferred against her.
He reiterated his resolve to do everything possible within the confines of the law to seek appropriate compensation for his client.
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