Amina’s Story Cock and Bull – Says Investigator

Cpl. Issah Mohammed, an investigator charged to look into the case involving Amina Mohammed, the lady at the centre of the alleged mass rape on a Yutong bus, yesterday told an Accra Circuit Court that none of the statements made by Amina were true.

Cpl. Mohammed told the court presided over by Patience Mills-Tetteh that throughout his investigations, none of the alleged statements made by Amina turned out to be true.

Describing the mass rape report as a “hoax”, he said since the incident in October 11, 2010, he had been charged to conduct a thorough investigation into the case.

He told the court that after identifying the driver and passengers onboard the said Yutong bus, none of the alleged victims admitted to the facts of the incident, saying that although there was an attempted robbery on that said date, no rape took place.

Cpl. Mohammed told the court that when he paid a visit to Amina’s family members at Gushegu-Temale in the Northern Region, Amina’s real name was given by the head of the family, Salisu Adam, as Elham aka Ham.

He said although the accused person reported that the incident took an hour, his investigations revealed that lots of vehicles plied that road so there was no way the robbers could have used an hour for their alleged act.

“With the help of the counterfoil given to me, I was able to trace most of the passengers on board and visited them one after the other but strangely none of the said passengers made any statement to collaborate the accused person’s report”.

At the Ejisu police station, the police also denied the story but indicated that there was an attempted robbery attack, which Amina and her passengers escaped narrowly.

He said information gathered at the police station further indicated that on October 11, 2010, the second driver of the said Yutong bus, registered GN 263-10 from the Circle Neoplan station in Accra, enroute to Bawku, went to report an attempted robbery.

The second driver noted that the driver did not stop but drove through the logs which had been used as a road block till they got to Kubiase, where he stopped to remove a log that had been trapped under his vehicle.

Michael Ofosu Frimpong, a prosecution witness in the Amina Yutong mass rape saga, was also recalled to substantiate an allegation he made in the media that he was coached by the Attorney General’s Department to frame up some New Patriotic Party (NPP) chieftains as having attempted to bribe him over the Amina case.

But he told the court that he did not go to any radio station.

It would be recalled that Ofosu Frimpong, a trader, made allegations in open court that some members of the NPP had attempted to bribe him over the Amina Mohammed case.

Amina, 24, captured national attention following her statement on Adom FM, a Tema-based radio station, that there was a mass rape of women on a Bawku-bound bus during a robbery attack at Kubiase.

The mother of three reported how the armed robbers forced male passengers to have sex with their female counterparts, including a father who was supposedly forced to sleep with his 14-year-old daughter.

She is standing trial for causing fear and panic as well as deceit of public officer.

She has pleaded not guilty to the charges and is currently on a GH¢5,000 bail with a surety.

The case has been adjourned to June 4.