AG’s office to take over prosecution of lecturer remanded for wife’s disappearance
Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey was on November 12, remanded into police custody after being provisionally charged with kidnapping.
The office of the Attorney-General will take over the prosecution in the case involving Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, a Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) lecturer, who is facing trial for his alleged involvement in the disappearance of his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko, a staff of the Lands Commission in Kumasi.
During the court hearing at the Asokwa District Court, the Prosecutor, Chief Inspector Moore Ankrah told the court that the office of the Attorney-General has expressed interest to take over the case.
“They say that the AG is taking over the matter, and we don’t have any problem, so we are waiting,” Chris Adomako Kwakye, the lawyer for Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey told reporters.
On November 16, 2021, the Kumasi High Court, denied a bail application filed by Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey’s lawyers because prosecutors said new facts had emerged, linking him to the disappearance of his wife.
The case has therefore been adjourned to December 10, 2021.
Meanwhile, colleagues of Rhodaline Amoah-Darko who were also present in court, expressed their excitement over the decision of the Attorney-General to take over the case.
“We are very happy about it because the AG stands for the government and Rhoda is a public servant and therefore although the police have done their bit, we think the AG is well-vexed to take up this case,” Stephen Oduro-Kwarteng, a Lands Officer also told reporters.
Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey was on November 12, remanded into police custody after being provisionally charged with kidnapping.
According to the police, Dr. Aggrey sent messages from his wife’s phone on the day he claimed she had been kidnapped. The police say communication from her mobile phone, alleged to have been from kidnappers demanding a ransom, came from a cell tower close to the KNUST campus home of the accused.
The police said in his caution statement, Dr. Aggrey admitted that he sent those messages through his wife’s phone.
He however failed to provide information regarding the whereabouts of his wife.
