Late J. B. Danquah-Adu
Nana Obiri Boahen, Deputy General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has called on the Ghana Medical Association (GMA) to institute punitive measures against Dr Lawrence Edusei, a pathologist at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital.
Dr Edusei conducted the autopsy on the murdered Member of Parliament (MP) for Abuakwa North, J.B. Danquah-Adu, and told a court in Accra that the report had been stolen by thieves who raided his residence.
The MP was slained at his residence at Shiashie, East Legon, a suburb of Accra, on February 9, 2016.
Claim of the missing autopsy report, according to the police, is hampering efforts to build a solid case against Daniel Asiedu and Vincent Bosso, the two suspects, who were arrested in connection with the murder and are standing trial at the Accra Central District Court, presided over by Ms Arit Nsemoh.
A petition filed at the “Enso Nyameye Chambers,” a Sunyani-based legal firm, and copied to the Ghana News Agency (GNA), described the conduct of Dr Edusei not only as “reprehensible,” but also unacceptable.
Copies of the petition, which were sent to the Medical and Dental Council and Dr Edusei, noted that the trial had “suffered numerous adjournments thereby, stultifying the committal proceedings, all because of the conduct of Dr Edusei.”
Nana Obiri Boahen asserted, “I have been attending court proceedings, and I have been doing so by watching brief for the NPP, sympathizers, friends and relatives of the assassinated MP and I am ever ready to appear in person to proffer much information and evidence.”
He stated, “This petition is without prejudice to whatever decision the honourable court may take on the 18th day of January, 2018.”
