NPP Chairman’s murder: Afoko pleads not guilty 3rd time in 8 years
Gregory Afoko, the farmer accused of murdering Adams Mahama, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Chairman has, for the third time in eight years, pleaded not guilty to conspiring with convict, Asabke Alangdi, to murder the former New Patriotic Party (NPP) Upper East Regional Chairman.
Alangdi, who has already been convicted on the charge of conspiracy, also pleaded not guilty last Thursday to murder at the court, presided over by Justice Maries-Louis Simmons.
In April this year, a seven-member jury of a court, presided over by Justice Merley Afua Wood, a Justice of the Court of Appeal sitting as an additional High Court judge, returned a final verdict which unanimously found Asabke Alangdi guilty on the charge of conspiring with Gregory Afoko to kill Mahama in 2015, but returned a 4-3 verdict of not guilty on the charges of conspiracy to commit murder and murder for Afoko.
Alangdi was, however, found guilty of the offence of conspiracy to commit murder, thus the court proceeded to pass the mandatory sentence of death on him.
It also noted that Gregory and Asabke formed another youth group in their bid to protect persons perceived to be against Nana Akufo-Addo.
It said the accused persons held series of meetings with the youth, and on May 20, 2015, they laid ambush at Mahama’s residence with a substance suspected to be acid.
It said when she enquired about what had happened to her husband, he told her that Gregory and Asabke had attacked him.
It said the accused persons held series of meetings with the youth, and on May 20, 2015, they laid ambush at Mahama’s residence with a substance suspected to be acid.
It said when she enquired about what had happened to her husband, he told her that Gregory and Asabke had attacked him.
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