Continued from yesterday’s issue
Cross examination by Victor Kwadjoga Adawudu, Counsel for A2, A3, A7, A8, & A9.
Q. Lance Corporal Godwin Nii Ankrah, are you the same as Nii Korankye Ankrah?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. Where do you live? I mean your residence?
A. Dome Felatsui.
Q. Do you live with your wife?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. Where you live, do you have co-tenants?
A. Yes.
Q. And some of these tenants are civilians?
A. Ys my lords.
Q. A8, Ali Solomon, apart from he being your course mate, at a point in time you performed duty together?
A. Yes.
Q. You know where he lives?
A. No my lords.
Q. You have a course mate called Prince Adukpo?
A. Yes.
Q. Somewhere in 2018, some group of civilians attacked your wife whilst you were on duty with Ali?
A. Yes my lords. It wasn’t my wife who was attacked, but before I went on duty there were some boys who smoke around the cemetery; one was in military shorts and inner vest, I approached him and he misbehaved, so I had to take of the military attire he was wearing. When I went on duty, I was told he had organised a gang to my house.
Q. The reason your house was attacked was because you had seized the uniform worn by the guy, is that not so?
A. Yes.
Q. On hearing the news, you called some of your course mates and some friends within the military to go to Dome, and, in your parlance, to “rescue” you?
A. It is so, but we were on duty when the call came from the house, so Ali asked what the problem was, and I told him. The following day, when we closed from duty, he said we should go to the house.
Q. A9, Sylvester, was part of the mission rescue?
A. He was part. I did not know him, Ali brought him.
Q. After, from the rescue mission, you gave Ali’s number to your pastor to thank him for the assistance?
A. Not correct. Because my pastor came to the scene, and while the riot was going on he said if he could see Ali who was angry. So he was trying to send him aside and calm him; after this, he took Ali’s number himself to talk to him on one or two issues; so he took the number himself.
Q. Your pastor had been calling Ali several times with the reason that he wanted him to be a member of his congregation?
A. As for that, I can’t tell.
Q. Ali Solomon confronted you with this issue, and asked you to tell your pastor to leave him alone?
A. Not correct.
Q. Based on this issue, the two of you agreed to meet and discuss it?
A. Not correct my lords.
Q. It is on this basis that you called A8 to meet him, and he told you he was at the Next Door Beach Resort, is that not so?
A. It is not correct.
Q. You told the court that before you went to Next Door, you did not know what you were going for?
A. Yes my lords. First of all, if I knew it was a meeting, I would not have dressed in my uniform because all those I met were in civil attire, including Ali.
Q. When you got to Next Door Beach Resort you met A8?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. And you told the court that A8 was sitting under a summer hut, or in military parlance Matambo?
A. No my lords.
Q. Can you tell the court where exactly you met A8 when you got there?
A Because I did not know the place, he met me at the road side.
Q. Is it the only summer hut at the Next Door Beach Resort?
A. I can’t tell.
Q. Tell the court the number of times you attended the meeting at the Next Door Beach Resort.
A. Just that day, my lords.
Q. Is it your case that you attended only one meeting in relation to the overthrow of the government?
A. Yes.
Q. You see, you also told the court that at the alleged meeting a piece of paper was passed around for you to write your names?
A. Yes.
Q. Did you write your name and number yourself?
A. Yes, my lords.
Q. Can you write your name and your phone number?
Witness writes; he is given paper.
Q. Now if you see the paper you wrote your name on at the Next Door Beach Resort will you be able to identify it?
A. No, my lords. It was just a sheet of paper, that’s what I can recollect.
Q. Was it an A4 or a different paper?
A. It was different.
Q. Can you take a look at Exhibit E if it is the paper you wrote your name on?
A. Yes.
Q. This is your own handwriting, like the one you just wrote?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. Take a look at Exhibit E again; on it can you see your name there?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. Turn it to the back, can you find your name written under the name personnel?
A. Yes.
Q. Is that your handwriting on Exhibit E?
A. No.
Q. The paper you just wrote your name on identifies your handwriting?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. You told the court that you were the only person in uniform at the alleged meeting?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. At the said meeting, you said A3, Bright, was the one who presided over the meeting?
A. Yes.
Q. Can you tell the court what he was wearing?
A. All I can remember was that he was in suit.
Q. You told the court that there was a table you were all asked to deposit your phones?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. Immediately after the meeting, you called Sgt Owusu, is that not so?
A. Yes.
Q. Sgt Owusu also directed you to WOI Bissah?
A. Yes.
Q. You trust Sgt Owusu as the one who can speak the truth, is that not so?
A. Yes my lords, but I told him because he is with the National Security?
Q. Is it that Sgt Owusu hearing about what transpired at the meeting will say it as you narrated to him? Will you be surprised to know that Sgt Owusu said you are an informant?
A. I wouldn’t be surprised, because there are issues that I have reported to him before?
Q. Sgt Owusu in your estimation is an honest man?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. You told the court that when you went for the meeting you did not know the names of the people present, except Ali Solomon?
A. That is not correct.
Q. Did you know the names of the people who attended the meeting?
A. I knew the ones I knew already, not all of them.
Q. Tell the court the names of those you knew?
A. Solomon who invited me and Corporal Seidu I am in same unit with, and Corporal Akankpewu through the incident that happened at my house, so when I saw him at the meeting, I was able to identify him.
Q. I suggest to you that Sgt Owusu and WOI Bissah gave statements to the police and mentioned your name as their source of information?
A. I can’t tell; I am not aware.
Q. What Sgt Owusu and WOI Bissah told the police was that there was a group of people who were planning to overthrow government, and you attended their meeting, is that correct?
A. Yes my lords.
Q. I am suggesting to you that Sgt Owusu WOI Bissah in their statements to the police told them that there were NDC big men at that meeting?
A. That’s not correct.
Video of June 22, PICt0007 and PICT0008
Q. Lance Corporal Ankrah, is that the meeting you attended?
A. Yes, my lords.
Q. Is this one too part of the meeting you attended?
A. Yes.
Q. There is nowhere the overthrow of the government was discussed in the video?
A. That’s not correct.
Q. In the video, clearly you could see phones displayed in front of them at the alleged meeting?
A. That’s not correct. Those who on the high table: the Chairman and those with him had their phones on them, but the others didn’t.
Q. I’m suggesting to you that your assertion that participants were requested to put their phones on the table is not true?
A. That’s not correct.
Q. It is different from what you are saying; what is in the video.
A. The video did not start from the beginning of the meeting; this is a part of the meeting; part of the video.
Q. Did you see a gentleman in a military uniform?
A. Yes, my lords.
Q. Were you the one?
A. No my lords.
Q. There’s nowhere in these two videos that you have been captured?
A. The video did not show the audience, so I can’t say anything about that.
Q. A part of it showed A8 standing near the plot, did you see that?
A. Yes, I did.
Q. He went and called Sylvester aside the meeting to have a discussion with him?
A. I saw Sylvester going there, but I don’t know what they discussed.
Q. I am putting it to you that you, Sylvester and Corporal Seidu were sitting under a different summer hut, hence, you were not part of the meeting.
A. That’s not correct my lords.
Q. You have no personal knowledge of what transpired at the alleged meeting?
A. That’s not correct.
