The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice El-Freda Denkyi has fixed June 2, 2021 to empannel the jury in the case in which Eric Kojo Duah is standing trial for the murder of two police officers on the Kasoa-Budumburam-Accra stretch in August 2019.
The accused persons were on May 4 refused bail. Their lawyer Augustines Obour repeated his oral application for bail but the court insisted he comes formally with his application.
When the case was called, the trial judge said, the court was having challenges getting members of the jury and hoped at the next court sitting the jurors would be empanelled.
Eric Kojo Duah has been formally charged with two counts of murder.
The Attorney General last year advised the Police to formally charge Eric Kojo Duah, who is alleged to have shot and killed two officers on the Kasoa-Budumburam-Aprah stretch in August 2019, with murder.
At the District Court presided over by Ms. Rosemond Dodua Agyiri, the Prosecution led by Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sylvester Asare, said the Police had received instructions from the Attorney-General’s Department to formally charge Duah aka Sakora with murder.
He allegedly shot and killed General Lance Corporal Mohammed Awal and Lance Corporal Michael Dzamesi who were on task force duty on the Kasoa-Budumburam-Aprah road on August 28 lasy year.
The officers apparently asked Eric Duah, who was driving an unregistered vehicle to stop but he ignored them.
The officers who had a service vehicle chased him but Duah pulled a pistol from his car and shot the officers in turns.
While Awal died instantly, Dzamesi died shortly after arriving at the hospital.
The accused person has since been remanded into lawful custody.
Source: Ghana/Starrfm.com.gh/Murtala Inusah
