Deputy Attorney-General Alfred Tuah Yeboah stated that the prosecution is not concerned about the contents of the audio recording that occurred between Attorney-General Godfred Dame and the third accused, Richard Jakpa, in the Ato Forson trial.
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When asked about the severity or impact of the audio recording on the case, while speaking to journalists after court proceedings on Thursday, June 13, he replied; “Not at all, because this audio is nothing that you have heard, in terms of the content we are not minded about that because it is something that is in the public domain.”
On Thursday, June 13, the High Court accepted the audio recording as evidence.
“High Court admits audio recording between Richard Jakpa and Attorney General Godfred Yeboah Dame into evidence,” TV3’s Laud Adu Asare who was in court on Thursday, June 13 reported.
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On Thursday, June 6, last week, when the trial judge Justice Efia Serwah Asare-Botwey rejected the motion for mistrial filed by Dr. Ato Forson’s lawyers, she also stated that the recording did not disclose any directive from Godfred Dame for Mr. Jakpa to incriminate Ato Forson.
“Having listened to the conversation between [Richard Jakpa] and A-G, the allegation that A-G sought assistance to implicate [Ato Forson] was not borne out of the mouth of the A-G but [Richard Jakpa],” Justice Efia Serwah said.
After dismissing the application, the judge advised Attorney-General Godfred Dame to withdraw from the ongoing case in the interest of justice and the public.
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