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19th January, 2012
DSP Tehoda Interdicted
Francis Asamoah Tuffour
The Police Administration has interdicted Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gifty Mawunyega Tehoda who has been charged in connection with swapping of cocaine exhibit sodium bi-carbonate.
DSP Tehoda, was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Crime Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters.
Acting Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Cephas Arthur who disclosed this to the ‘Times’ yesterday explained that her interdiction was not to implicate the officer in the case but to allow for investigations into the matter.
DSP Tehoda was charged on Tuesday, for abetment of crime and stealing cocaine. She was subsequently remanded in prison custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The court, presided over by Mrs. Audrey
Kocuvie-Tay adjourned the case to February 6.
An Accra Human Rights Court presided over by Mr. Justice Kofi Essel-Mensah last Thursday granted DSP Tehoda bail in the sum of GHC50,000 with two sureties after it upheld an ex-parte motion filed by her counsel that her continued detention constituted an infringement on her human rights as guaranteed under the Constitution.
The cocaine controversy started when a Circuit Court trying, Nana Ama Martins, accused of processing 1,029 kilograme of the drug, realised that the exhibit had turned into baking soda when it ordered a re-test, following the outcome of the re-testing, the court acquitted Ms. Martins.
Separate investigations ordered by the President and the Chief Justice into the matter both indicated the police.
While the Chief Justice committee found that the cocaine was swapped before it was tendered in evidence, the report of the presidential probe by the BNI said its investigation established strong circumstantial evidence that the cocaine was charged with the active assistance and facilitation by DSP Tehoda.
It recommended that DSP Kofi Adzei-Tudzea who has the responsibility for the security of the cocaine and DSP Tehoda be held responsible for their roles in the disappearance of the exhibit which was kept for three years at the Police headquarters.
The Police Administration has interdicted Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gifty Mawunyega Tehoda who has been charged in connection with swapping of cocaine exhibit sodium bi-carbonate.
DSP Tehoda, was the Deputy Director of the Commercial Crime Unit at the Criminal Investigations Department Headquarters.
Acting Director of the Police Public Affairs Directorate, DSP Cephas Arthur who disclosed this to the ‘Times’ yesterday explained that her interdiction was not to implicate the officer in the case but to allow for investigations into the matter.
DSP Tehoda was charged on Tuesday, for abetment of crime and stealing cocaine. She was subsequently remanded in prison custody by an Accra Circuit Court. The court, presided over by Mrs. Audrey
Kocuvie-Tay adjourned the case to February 6.
An Accra Human Rights Court presided over by Mr. Justice Kofi Essel-Mensah last Thursday granted DSP Tehoda bail in the sum of GHC50,000 with two sureties after it upheld an ex-parte motion filed by her counsel that her continued detention constituted an infringement on her human rights as guaranteed under the Constitution.
The cocaine controversy started when a Circuit Court trying, Nana Ama Martins, accused of processing 1,029 kilograme of the drug, realised that the exhibit had turned into baking soda when it ordered a re-test, following the outcome of the re-testing, the court acquitted Ms. Martins.
Separate investigations ordered by the President and the Chief Justice into the matter both indicated the police.
While the Chief Justice committee found that the cocaine was swapped before it was tendered in evidence, the report of the presidential probe by the BNI said its investigation established strong circumstantial evidence that the cocaine was charged with the active assistance and facilitation by DSP Tehoda.
It recommended that DSP Kofi Adzei-Tudzea who has the responsibility for the security of the cocaine and DSP Tehoda be held responsible for their roles in the disappearance of the exhibit which was kept for three years at the Police headquarters.
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