… The witness, George Annan, a Bolt driver who told the court he previously worked as a driver for the mother of the accused, made the admission while being cross-examined by lead counsel for Madam Oware-Mensah, Gary Nimako Marfo. …
… By early June 2025 the team had grown to include Dame, Appiah-Kubi and a new arrival, Gary Nimako Marfo, the NPP’s director of legal affairs, who had been brought in on the instructions of Wontumi’s wife as the family pressed for his release from the custody of the Economic and O …
… During the continued cross-examination of the prosecution’s first witness, Gilbert Sebe-Yeboah, Head of Commercial Banking at ADB, defence counsel, Gary Nimako Marfo questioned the bank’s basis for transferring funds from the NSA Hire Purchase Suspense Account to Blocks of Life C …
… Mr Gary Nimako Marfo, counsel for Mrs Oware-Mensah, questioned the witness extensively on the operation of the account and the authorisation of transfers made to Blocks of Life Consult Limited. …
… Her lawyer, Gary Nimako Marfo, had filed the application to pause the trial while the Supreme Court determined the constitutionality of a practice direction that had been used as the basis for the High Court’s order requiring the accused to file the names, addresses, and statemen …
… Counsel for the accused, Mr Gary Nimako Marfo, objected to the tendering of the letter, arguing it was “not legible, undated, not the original copy” and that the letterhead was “so faint that it is not even readable.” “The documents which the witness intends to tender is not legi …
… Lead counsel for the accused, Gary Nimako Marfo, objected to the admission of the letter, arguing that it was illegible, undated and not an original copy. …
… Earlier, on February 10, counsel for the accused, Gary Nimako Marfo, had filed a stay of proceedings application, arguing that the appeal raised constitutional issues that should be determined by the Court of Appeal. …
A prosecution witness in the trial of former NSA Deputy Director-General Gifty Oware-Mensah admitted under cross-examination that he has no evidence to support claims that the accused used his Ghana Card to register a company. The witness also acknowledged not knowing when the company in question, Blocks of Life Consult Limited, was incorporated, and could not respond when defence counsel established the company was registered in April 2016, before the witness obtained his Ghana Card in 2020.
Andy Appiah-Kubi, the lead lawyer for NPP Ashanti chairman Bernard Antwi-Boasiako (Chairman Wontumi), has walked away from defending him in an illegal mining case for the second time in over a year, citing "unseen influences" compromising the trial's integrity. The departure comes as judgment is due July 3 and as Wontumi separately seeks plea negotiations in a fraud case involving the Ghana Export-Import Bank.
Former NSA Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah has questioned the Agricultural Development Bank's claim that transfers from an NSA hire purchase suspense account to Blocks of Life Consult Limited were properly authorised, during ongoing trial proceedings over alleged financial losses of about GH¢38 million. The defence counsel challenged the bank's witness over the absence of documentary evidence specifically authorising the first transfer of GH¢148,841 in February 2023, despite the bank's reliance on what it described as a standing instruction.
The defence counsel in the trial of Gifty Oware-Mensah, former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority, has questioned the basis of transactions from an ADB account linked to a Higher Purchase Facility for National Service Personnel, specifically transfers to Blocks of Life Consult Limited. The prosecution witness, Head of the Commercial Banking Department of ADB, confirmed that Oware-Mensah was not a director, shareholder, or beneficial owner of the company.
The Supreme Court has dismissed an application to halt the High Court trial of Gifty Oware-Mensah, former Deputy Executive Director of the National Service Authority, who faces charges of causing financial loss of more than GH¢38 million to the state. The court ruled that the accused's constitutional challenge to a practice direction does not justify suspending the trial.
The High Court in Accra admitted a letter allegedly written by former National Service Scheme Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah directing the Agricultural Development Bank to transfer GH¢31 million into her company's private account, though the judge noted the document was faint and ordered the prosecution to file a clearer copy.
A letter allegedly written by former NSS Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah directing the Agricultural Development Bank to transfer funds to her private company has been admitted into evidence in her trial for the alleged loss of GH¢38 million in the National Service ghost names scandal. Oware-Mensah faces charges including stealing, wilfully causing financial loss to the state, using public office for profit, and money laundering; she has pleaded not guilty and been granted bail.
The High Court's Criminal Division 4 has rejected an oral application by the defence to stay proceedings in the National Service Scheme scandal trial. The defence counsel had sought to suspend proceedings pending a Supreme Court application challenging the constitutionality of a 2018 practice direction, but the trial court found no evidence that the Supreme Court application had been properly served.
The High Court in Accra has dismissed an application by former National Service Authority Deputy Executive Director Gifty Oware-Mensah seeking to halt her trial. Justice Audrey Kocuvie-Tay ordered the prosecution to proceed with its case, with the matter adjourned to May 11.