The family of the embattled Accra Manager of the Driver Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA), who was accused by two female staff of attempted rape and sexual harassment, say their kinsman was “framed up”.
“Those people who are behind all this should also know that he’s also got relatives. It’s seriously disturbing us. If somebody is doing a good job in Ghana, people have a way of bringing him down and that is what is happening. It’s clear to us that it’s a frame up”, a brother of Noah Tetteh Martey told XYZ News’ Presidential Correspondent, Kwame Danso Acheampong Wednesday.
“It’s a deliberate ploy by a group of people to bring his name into disrepute”, Mr. Martey insisted.
He believes his brother’s accusers are telling plain lies.
One of the two ladies, a married woman who pleaded anonymity, insisted in a recent interview with XYZ News that beside the alleged attempted rape by her boss, she also suffered several bouts of sexual abuse and harassment by the same man.
She claimed she was fired by Tetteh Martey after the alleged near-rape incident, which the national head office of the DVLA has described as an allegation of sexual harassment that is being investigated.
“He’ll call me on phone” into his office and “start touching you”, the married woman said.
According to her, “I told him I don’t like that because I’m a married woman”, the alleged victim claimed, adding that each time she protested about the harassment, Tetteh Martey retorted that: “After all what? Married women are doing that [so] I should give it to him so that anything that I want, he will do it for me [but] I said ‘no, if my husband gets to hear this he wouldn’t be happy but he still insisted’”.
She claimed the harassment went to the extent of her boss “putting his hands into my skirt [and] pulling me; that’s how [my underwear] got torn. I was struggling with him and he was even begging me not to tell anybody”.
She claimed she reported the case to the DVLA Boss, Rudlof Beckley, prompting investigations into the matter.
A female colleague, who also claims she suffered similar harassment by the same man for at least three times said: “He kisses and fondles my breast…he likes every lady at the DVLA…even female clients”.
Tetteh Martey’s brother however says he believes the DVLA’s investigations will clear his name.
