Daniel Asiedu, aka Sexy Don-Don, the young man who has been accused of murdering the former Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, Mr Joseph Boakye Dankwa, has made an oral request to an Accra High Court to subpoena the Ghana Police Service to produce records of calls placed to the security informing it about the murder of the MP.
Yaw Danquah, defence counsel for Sexy Don-Don and his alleged accomplice, Vincent Bosso, alias Junior Agogo, made the appeal before the court presided over by Justice Lydia Osei Marfo when he cross-examined the second prosecution witness, Stephen Apreku, yesterday.
“We want to apply for the 191 call that was placed to the police to be subpoenaed by the court,” the lawyer said. Her Ladyship, however, held that Counsel Danquah should make a formal application to the court on the next adjourned date, May 26, 2021.
The following are excerpts of the cross-examination:
Q. At the last adjourned date you told this court that you were asleep, and you got up and by the time you got up it was about 1:00am, when you went for a walk. Is that correct?
A. Yes.
Q. And, you said that 1:00am was when you discovered that there was a ladder in front of the room. Is that correct?
A. Yes. It was in the course of me was like round around that I realised the ladder had been placed in front of the house.
Q. You also said when you saw the ladder it aroused your suspicions, and you went out to calm Abraham the security guard in the other house. Is that correct?
A. I got frightened when I saw that the ladder had been placed at that particular place, so I called the Kwame, the gardener who was sleeping in the security room, and thereafter I rushed out to call Abraham, who is security in another house close by, to come and have a look and also help so that we would be many.
Q. What time did you ran out to call Abraham when you discovered the ladder at 1am?
A. It was the gardener’s phone that I used to know that the time was 1am, but I did not take notice of the time I ran out to call Abraham.
Q. So you will agree with me that the 1am that you said you saw the ladder in front of the house by the garbage cannot be correct. Is that right?
A. It was about 1am.
Q. You will also agree with me would you not that from the time you saw the ladder and the time you went to wake the gardener, there is a duration, is it not correct?
A. I agree because time is not static.
Q. Tell this court at what time period did you set your eyes on time when you went to call the gardener.
A. My phone was off, but it was at the time we took the gardener’s phone and decided to call the police.
Q. It is true, is it not, that the time you decided to call the police was the time you had gone out of the house to call Abraham to come back into the house before you called the police.
A. Yes.
Q. You will agree with me that at the time you said you saw a ladder in front of the house you did know the time.
A. That is why I stated it was about 1am when I was questioned by the police.
Q. In your estimation how long did it take in seeing the ladder, waking the gardener up, running out to call Abraham, and returning home to call the police?
A. I cannot tell.
Q. Mr Apreku, you cannot tell the time because in your two statements that you gave to the police on 9 Feb 2016 and April 1, 2020 you never mentioned time.
A. I told the police it was about 1am.
Q. When you say that the time was about 1am, it is true, is it not, that you don’t know the exact time, but in your estimation it is about the hour of 1am. Is that correct?
A. It was at the time I took the driver’s phone and looked at the time that we saw that I was 1am. Thereafter other events that took place up to the time the late JB Danquah’s body was conveyed I did not take notice of the time because, first of all, my phone was off, and secondly, I was distressed and weeping. The state in which I was did not even allow me to check the time again.
Q. Within the 60 minutes of the hour how many minutes close can you equate it to about 1am?
A. I cannot tell.
Q. Who actually made the call to the police on 191?
A. I recall that we called 191 but because I was not in the right phrase of mind so I cannot recall the exact person who made the call.
Q. Who spoke to the police when the 191 call was placed?
A. I cannot tell who exactly spoke with the police when the call was made.
Q. You can agree with me, would you not that Abraham could not speak to the police about the fact of what happened in the house?
A. I am a bit confused because it was the positioning of the ladder that aroused my suspicions and I rushed out to call Abraham who also came and witnesses it for himself so A Eagan can also speak to the police a witness to what he also saw.
Q. You will also agree with me, would not that the gardener could not tell the police what happened at the time you woke up and the time you decided to call the police because it was not his responsibility. You are the security guard and the security of the house lies on your shoulders and it your responsibility to tell the police exactly what happened.
A. Yes. That is why I also have a statement to the police.
Note: The cross-examination is unedited.
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