Alleged Togolese National set free as witness run away from court again

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Source: GITFIConline.com

By Isaac Newton Tetteh.

Tema, July 27. Tema based magistrate court presided over by Mrs. Akosua Anokyewaa Adjepong has set free an alleged Togolese who had attempted to register for his name to be on Ghana’s electoral roll.

35 years old, Mr. Elvis KwekuSeglah was discharged on Monday after the court granted him bail to the tune of ghc 6,000.00 with two sureties some 14 days ago after he pleaded not guilty to an electoral related offence he was been held for.

Prosecuting officer Chief Inspector Emmanuel Mensah of the Tema Regional police command told Gitficonline.com that, the court dismissed the case due to lack of evidence against the accused person.

He added that, the investigators could not convinced the court with evidence to back their claim the accused was not a Ghanaian.

According to Mr. Mensah, the prosecution witness was unwilling to testify against the accused person as efforts to have the Prosecuting witness appear in court hit the snag. I’m surprise the witness didn’t want to come to testify after arresting the poor man’ he hinted.

The prosecuting officer further revealed, the court ruled that, the various political players must adhere to the Constitutional Instrument (C.I) 126, which was the legal legs for the voter registration exercise currently on going by the Electoral Commission.

‘You cannot stop someone from registering but rather you challenge them after they have registered’ he added.

 Mr. Donnie Saglah, a relative of the accused, said Saglah was a Ghanaian, born to a Ghanaian father, the late Mr. Mensah Saglah, who hailed from Anloga in the Volta Region.

The relative further explained that the accused was however born in Togo because his late mother was a Togolese adding that he grew up and schooled in Togo but he was brought to Ghana by some foreign investors in 2009 to work and had since remained in Ghana.

“He is a Ghanaian and must be treated with some dignity, “he added.

Gitficonline.com observed on Monday that, relatives and friends of the accused stormed the Court ready to testify to his Ghanaian nationality.