In a bizarre paradoxical situation, Mrs. Ann Shirley Adjei-Acheampong, (Nee Amihere), the Chief Executive Officer of Express Maritime Services Ltd. (EMS), a Tema based stevedoring company, has been declared persona non grata at the premises of the company.
Together with her husband and family she dares not set foot at the premises of her own Express Maritime Services Limited, lest she is gunned down by a group of assassins hired by one Samuel Bervell Ackah who is battling her over the ownership of the Company. A vehicle belonging to the couple recently came under fire from the assassins when the assassins thought it was carrying Mrs. Adjei Acheampong and her family.
The assassins who have since March 11 laid siege at the company’s premises at Tema, our investigations have confirmed, were hired from Ashiaman, near Accra and are operating under “shoot on sight” instructions thus leaving Mrs. Adjei-Acheampong and her husband in a state of fear and insecurity.
Mrs Adjei-Acheampong who has lived in the UK for the last 30 years and her family presently live under 24-hour armed guard as a result of the threats of the hired assassins. At the centre of the whole siege is one Mr Kofi Dolphyne, the husband of Professor Florence Dolphyne of the National Reconciliation Commission (NRC) and his nephew, Samuel Bervell Ackah.
The hired assassins are the result of a Court of Appeal ruling for stay of execution of the judgement of the High Court at the instance of Samuel Bervil Ackah. Kofi Dolphyne, the original promoter of EMS and also a friend of Mrs. Adjei-Acheampong’s family is accused of using unconventional tactics to get his nephew, Samuel Bervil Ackah to take over the company in which Mrs. Adjei-Acheampong holds the majority 60 per cent shares.
As at the time of filing this report last Friday, the mean looking and blood thirsty assassins did not shown any signs of vacating the premises of Express Maritime Services. A very distraught Mrs. Adjei-Acheampong told this reporter in an interview; “I just do not know the kind of law we are practicing in this country. After the Court of Appeal’s ruling for stay of execution, we have every right to run the company until a time that the substantive case is dealt with. I expected all parties involved in the case to abide by the ruling of the Appeal Court which naturally, supersedes that of the ruling by Justice Victor Ofoe’s High Court.
