A-G's Office delays committal proceedings of alleged killer of girl

The committal proceedings which will enable Lucas Agboyie, the man who has confessed to killing a seven-year-old girl, after which he had sex with the corpse, to stand trial at the High Court could not come off as expected yesterday.


That was because the Attorney-General’s Department (A-G) requested for more time to enable it to get all the requisite documents necessary for the proceedings.

A senior State Attorney, Mrs Francisca Tete-Mensah, informed the Accra Central District Court that the A-G’s Department was yet to receive the original docket on the case and as such it could not start proceedings.

“In order for us to do the bill of indictment and summary of evidence, we need to have access to the original case docket," she said.

Dispatch rider

Explaining why the A-G’s Department was yet to receive the original case docket, Mrs Tete-Mensah said a dispatch rider was supposed to deliver it to the department but he was unable to do so because of the absence of the investigator.

The investigator, she said, was sent on an official duty to the Northern Region and, therefore, could not retrieve the docket on time for onward delivery to the department.

“Due to circumstances beyond our control, we are obliged to ask for more time to enable the investigator to bring by hand the original case docket to the A-G’s Department," she said.

The new development did not go down well with the presiding magistrate, Mr Ebenezer Kweku Ansah, who asked how hand delivery by the investigator could expedite the start of the committal proceedings.

The court adjourned the case to November 9, 2016 and stated that it would not tolerate any further delay from the A-G’s Department.

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