{"id":641236,"date":"2019-06-20T12:17:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORENSIC\nEXPERTS from the Criminal Investigation Department have begun screening gadgets\nseized from the chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel\nOfosu-Ampofo, who was arrest"},"modified":"2019-06-20T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T12:17:05","slug":"ofosu-ampofo-phones-laptops-screened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/06\/20\/ofosu-ampofo-phones-laptops-screened\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofosu- Ampofo Phones, Laptops Screened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FORENSIC<br \/>\nEXPERTS from the Criminal Investigation Department have begun screening gadgets<br \/>\nseized from the chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel<br \/>\nOfosu-Ampofo, who was arrested and released about a week ago.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto police sources, the screening started yesterday when Mr Ofosu-Ampofo<br \/>\nreported himself to the police for the second time after being granted bail. <\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nscreening reportedly took place in the presence of his lawyers and himself.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nscreening was supposed to have been done on June 12, 2019, but according to<br \/>\nAbraham Amaliba, one of his lawyers, the head of forensic was away on national<br \/>\nassignment hence its postponement to yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Mr<br \/>\nOfosu-Ampofo was supposed to report at 2pm yesterday but arrived earlier around<br \/>\n1:42pm even before his lawyers arrived.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nsource said they were ushered into the conference room where the whole show began.<br \/>\nThey left the premises around 3pm.<\/p>\n<p>Also<br \/>\nrepresenting Mr Ofosu-Ampofo were Marietta Brew Appiah-Oppong, Barbara Serwaa<br \/>\nAsamoah, Abraham Amaliba, as well as some NDC national executives.<\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nweek ago, Abraham Amaliba told journalists that his client was yet to be<br \/>\ncharged by the police.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto him, the police were investigating offences<br \/>\nincluding conspiracy to commit crime to wit kidnapping, kidnapping and unlawful<br \/>\ndamage against Mr Ofosu- Ampofo.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nchurch elder was arrested by a team of police officers in the house of a former<br \/>\nNDC minister at Cantonments in Accra on June 11, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>His<br \/>\narrest follows an arrest warrant secured by the police from court to pick him<br \/>\nafter his refusal to honour an invitation from the law enforcement agency. <\/p>\n<p>Armed<br \/>\nwith the arrest warrant, a team of cops traced the party chairman to Cantonments<br \/>\nthrough intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nwas quickly sent to his house as part of police routine for a search of his<br \/>\nabode for telltale evidences in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>It<br \/>\nwould be recalled that the Director General of the Criminal Investigations<br \/>\nDepartment (CID), COP Maame Tiwaa Addo-Danquah, invited the party chairman to<br \/>\ncome and assist the police in an ongoing investigation into the spate of<br \/>\nkidnappings and arson in the country. <\/p>\n<p>A<br \/>\nsuspect being probed by the police is said to have mentioned the name of Mr Ofosu-Ampofo<br \/>\nin connection with certain occurrences.\u00a0<br \/>\nUnder such circumstances, the police had to invite him for a chat on the<br \/>\nsubject. <\/p>\n<p>In the first case, he was invited by the police to assist the law enforcement agency following the leakage of an audio in which he was captured making remarks which threatened national security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(lindtenyah@gmail.com) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/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>Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo FORENSIC EXPERTS from the Criminal Investigation Department have begun screening gadgets seized from the chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, who was arrested and released about a week ago. According to police sources, the screening started yesterday when Mr Ofosu-Ampofo reported himself to the police for the second time after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ofosu- Ampofo Phones, Laptops Screened - 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\/06\/20\/ofosu-ampofo-phones-laptops-screened\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ofosu- Ampofo Phones, Laptops Screened - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo FORENSIC EXPERTS from the Criminal Investigation Department have begun screening gadgets seized from the chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, who was arrested and released about a week ago. 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