The High Court in Accra has partially dismissed a motion for further disclosures filed by counsel for the first and second accused in the ongoing National Signals Bureau (NSB) trial.
The request, filed by lawyer Samuel Atta Akyea on behalf of Kwabena Adu-Boahen, his wife Angela Adjei-Boateng, and a fourth accused, sought access to documents including the bill of lading for a BMW 740D, port of entry records, and a related police docket.
The court, however, found most of the requests either irrelevant or outside the prosecution’s custody.
Deputy Attorney General Dr. Justice Srem-Sai opposed the motion, stating that the bill of lading was not in the prosecution’s possession and was likely held by the accused, given Adu-Boahen’s appearance as both importer and exporter in the customs documents.
Justice John Eugene Nyante Nyadu, who presided over the case, ruled that the first three disclosure requests had already been addressed in the prosecution’s supplementary witness statement submitted by Frank Cromwell.
The judge found no legal basis to compel the prosecution to produce documents they did not possess.
On the matter of the police docket, the court noted that while the Attorney General’s office did not possess it, the Ghana Police Service had shared partial records from its database. Justice Nyante Nyadu therefore ordered the Ghana Police Service to provide all relevant information in their possession regarding the BMW 740D to the defence team.
The trial is scheduled to continue on July 31, 2025, for the hearing of another pending motion.
