The case involving Patience Botwe, the house help of Cecilia Dapaah has been transferred from the circuit court to the High Court, according to a notice released by the Attorney General’s office.
Patience Botwe and seven others have been on trial for three months after being detained for allegedly stealing over a million dollars and 350,000 euros from the former sanitation minister’s residence.
The facts of this case served as the foundation for corruption and corruption-related investigations into Cecilia Dapaah and her husband’s relations.
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Nonetheless, a fresh charge sheet has been filed before the High Court, according to DSP Emmanuel Nyamekye, a police prosecutor who appeared before the court on Wednesday with Senior State Attorney Akosua Agyepomaa Agyemang and Superintendent Sylvester Asare.
ASP Nyamekye stated that the High Court Registrar had not yet assigned a hearing date, which would have allowed the prosecution to inform the Circuit Court and then withdraw.
Following the recent turn of events, ASP Nyamekye told the court that once the date at the High Court was established, the charge sheet before the Circuit Court will be dismissed.
DSP Nyamekye told the court, “The State Attorney informed me that they have filed an enhanced Charged Sheet at the High Court yesterday waiting for a date to be issued.”
Following the establishment of a date, he states that the prosecution “will come and seek the leave of the Court and withdraw the case from here (Circuit Court) and continue at High Court.”
All of the accused were present in court, with the exception of the eighth defendant, who is still at large.
Patience Botwe, 18, a hairdresser, was charged together with Sarah Agyei, 30, an unemployed woman, Benjamin Sowah, 29, a plumber, Malik Dauda, 34, an unemployed man, Christiana Achab, a trader , Job Pomary, a mechanic, and Yahaya Sumaila, an excavator operator, with 14 counts of offences.
The eight accused person who is on similar charges is at large.
Their plea on the 14 provisional counts of charges comprising of a count of conspiracy, five counts of conspiracy and eight counts of dishonestly receiving have not been taken.
