July 1, 1969 - Mrs Edusei refused police appeal - court told
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MRS. MARY EDUSEI, wife of Mr Krobo Edusei, former Chief of State Protocol, allegedly refused to open her store at Odum, in Kumasi, where three men had been locked up in spite of appeals made by the police.
When told that the men might suffocate as a result of lack of sufficient air in the closed store, she was alleged to have said she had switched on a fan in the store and so they would not be suffocated.
She was also alleged to have said there were toilet facilities and some rice in the store for the men.
The allegation was made by Police Inspector Julius Quaynor who was giving evidence in a case in which Mrs Edusei is facing three charges of unlawful assault by imprisonment of three employees of the Electricity Corporation at a Kumasi Circuit Court, presided over by Mr. H. B. Apatu-Plange.
The employees are Mr. I.K. Asenso, assistant works superintendent and chief of Antoa; Mr. J.D. Kwarteng and Mr. A.B. Abban, both electricians. Mrs. Edusei has pleaded not guilty and she is on NC500 bail with one surety.
Inspector Quaynor said on June 12 at about 4p.m., he was sent with two other police officers, Inspector Lamptey and Detective Sergeant Letsah, to inform Mrs Edusei that she was wanted by the Assistant Commissioner of Police in charge of Ashanti Region because she had locked up three men in her store.
But in spite of persistent persuasion by them, the Inspector said, Mrs Edusei refused to accompany them on the grounds that she was going to see her doctor.
The Inspector said the three men were finally released at about 5.30p.m. after Mrs Edusei had sent a certain lady to the police station with the key to the store.
To a question by Mr Kofi Sackey, counsel for the accused, the Inspector denied knowledge of Mrs Edusei being stripped naked while she was in police custody. Another prosecution witness, Opanin Kofi Twuo, said on June 12 he went to Mrs. Edusei's store. Soon after he came out of the store Mrs. Edusei stepped out, locked the store and drove away.
A few minutes later, he was called by Nana Asenso who spoke to him through a hole in the glass window of the store and asked him to inform the regional electrical engineer that he (Asenso and two others) had been locked up by Mrs. Edusei. Further hearing of the case has been adjourned to Friday.
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