Goodies sacks counsel

The Managing Director of Goodies Music Productions, Isaac Abeidu Aidoo, aka Goodies, has dispensed with the services of his counsel in his narcotic trial.

At the court’s sitting on Friday, the counsel, Mr. Jah Jossiah informed the court that he had withdrawn from the case as counsel.

The counsel did not tell the court the reasons for his withdrawal but he confided in journalists that Goodies said he no longer needed his services.

Following the withdrawal of the counsel, Goodies appealed for a short adjournment to enable him secure the services of another counsel and the court obliged him and adjourned the case to next Friday.

Goodies on July 8, 2008, pleaded not guilty to possession of narcotics and the court remanded him in prison custody to re-appear on August 11, 2008.

However, when the case was called on the adjourned date, the court was informed that Goodies was sick and, therefore, was not brought to court.

The case was again adjourned to August 25, 2008 and during its sitting, the accused person was not brought to court. His counsel informed the court that his client had not been well.

The judge, Mr Mahamadu Iddrisu, was not pleased with the turn of events and why for two consecutive occasions the accused could not attend court and the court had not been furnished with any proof.

The judge said with the way things were going he might be compelled to find out whether indeed Goodies was in custody as ordered by the court.

He, therefore, adjourned the case to enable the accused to be brought to court.

According to the prosecution, Goodies swallowed 80 pellets of cocaine and attempted to smuggle them to the United Kingdom.

At about 10.45 p.m. on April 23, this year, when Goodies arrived at the Kotoka International Airport to board a Ghana International Airlines flight to London, operatives of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB) suspected him of carrying drugs in his stomach.

Goodies was, therefore, escorted to the 37 Military Hospital for an X-ray, which revealed that he had some foreign materials in his stomach.

He was subsequently arrested and put under surveillance and, in the process, he expelled 80 pellets of a whitish substance suspected to be cocaine.

Goodies informed the police during interrogation that one Abdul Haid, a musician residing at East Legon, Accra, had given him the drugs to be delivered to one Willie, for a fee of $3,000.