{"id":608235,"date":"2019-04-17T18:15:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n2019-04-17\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/632"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:15:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T18:15:56","slug":"government-concocted-story-against-kwaku-boahen-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/17\/government-concocted-story-against-kwaku-boahen-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Government concocted story against Kwaku Boahen \u2013 Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>citinewsroom.com<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-17<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/63210980.295.jpg\" alt=\"Edudzi Tamakloe4\" title=\"Edudzi Tamakloe4\" width=\"295\" height=\"204\" \/><span class=\"play-icon\">play video<\/span><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Lawyer for Kweku Boahen, Edudzi Tamakloe<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Lawyers for Kwaku Boahen, a Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have insisted that their client is innocent of the charges pressed against him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boahen is being prosecuted together with the NDC\u2019s National Chairman, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo, on conspiracy to harm a public officer in relation to the contents of a leaked audio tape.<\/p>\n<p>The State first presented its case in Court on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyer for Kweku Boahen, Edudzi Tamakloe told Citi News the state simply concocted the story.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe clearly demonstrated before the court that even the facts presented before the court by a learned Attorney General have no connection with the truth whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA little diligence and investigation would have demonstrated that our client, Mr. Kwaku Boahen, could not have been in Accra on the 3rd of February 2019..The state\u2019s decision to concoct a story, make-believe [story] for the purposes of grounding a conspiracy charge tells you the sorry state that we have gotten to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Boahen and the  National Chairman of the NDC, Samuel Ofosu Ampofo were granted bail by a court in Accra on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>They were granted bail of GH\u00a2100,000 each with one surety each.<\/p>\n<p>They were also ordered to reappear in court on May 6, 2019,  to stand trial over statements they allegedly made in a leaked audio tape.<\/p>\n<p>Flagbearer of the NDC, John Dramani Mahama and other bigwigs in the NDC such as Nana Ato Dadzie, General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketiah and Joyce Bawa Mogtari were at the Accra High Court to witness proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The two national officers of the NDC pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to cause harm and assault on a public officer.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, a Deputy Attorney General, Joseph Kpemka says the prosecution will be able to produce evidence to back the charges levelled against the accused persons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just gave out the charges and the facts. The evidence will be led by witnesses in court and we will be tendering documents. We are not going to discuss the merits of the matter but we made a judgement and it was based on looking at the entire facts  and circumstances of the matter before arriving at the charges that we have proffered against the accused persons and we are confident of the facts that we will be able to present facts to back the charges,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019 Source: citinewsroom.com 2019-04-17 play videoLawyer for Kweku Boahen, Edudzi Tamakloe Lawyers for Kwaku Boahen, a Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have insisted that their client is innocent of the charges pressed against him. Mr. Boahen is being prosecuted together with the NDC\u2019s National Chairman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Government concocted story against Kwaku Boahen \u2013 Lawyer - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/17\/government-concocted-story-against-kwaku-boahen-lawyer\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Government concocted story against Kwaku Boahen \u2013 Lawyer - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Wednesday, 17 April 2019 Source: citinewsroom.com 2019-04-17 play videoLawyer for Kweku Boahen, Edudzi Tamakloe Lawyers for Kwaku Boahen, a Deputy Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), have insisted that their client is innocent of the charges pressed against him. 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