The Attorney General’s office has issued notice to transfer the case involving Patience Botwe, Cecilia Dapaah’s home help, from the circuit court to the High Court.
Patience Botwe and seven others have been on trial for three months after being detained for allegedly stealing over a million dollars and 350,000 euros from the former sanitation minister’s residence.
The facts of this case served as the foundation for corruption and corruption-related investigations into Cecilia Dapaah and her husband’s relations.
However, DSP Emmanuel Nyamekye, a police prosecutor in the company of Superintendent Sylvester Asare and Akosua Agyepomaa Agyemang, a Senior State Attorney, told the Court on Wednesday that a new charge sheet had been submitted at the High Court.
According to ASP Nyamekye, the Registrar of the High Court has not to assign a hearing date so that the Prosecution may transmit it to the Circuit Court and then withdraw the case.
Following the new change of events, ASP Nyamekye informed the court that the charge sheet before the Circuit Court will be dropped once the date at the High Court was set.
“The State Attorney informed me that they have filed an enhanced Charged Sheet at the High Court yesterday waiting for a date to be issued,” DSP Nyamekye told the Court.
According to him, if a date is assigned, the Prosecution “will come and seek the leave of the Court and withdraw the case from here (Circuit Court) and continue at High Court.”
Except for the eighth accused, who is still at large, all of the accused were present in court.
Patience Botwe, 18, a hairdresser, was charged together with Sarah Agyei, 30, an unemployed woman, Benjamin Sowah, 29, a plumber, Malik Dauda, 34, an unemployed man, Christiana Achab, a merchant, Job Pomary, a mechanic, and Yahaya Sumaila, an excavator operator, with 14 counts of offences.
The eight people charged with identical offences are still at large.
They have not entered a plea on the 14 provisional counts of accusations, which include one crime of conspiracy, five counts of conspiracy, and eight counts of dishonestly receiving.
