SAMUEL OSEI OWUSU AND JUDICIAL SERVICE [2000]DLCHRAJ5845

Date	2000-09-07
Suit No.	Our Ref: CHRAJ/622/2000/1696
Citation No.	[2000]DLCHRAJ5845

CHRIS AKUFFO OPOKU

[2000]DLCHRAJ5845
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													<main id="main" class="content" style="min-height: 60rem" ><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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color:#00B050">SAMUEL OSEI OWUSU<o:p></o:p>(COMPLAINANT)<o:p></o:p>AND<o:p></o:p><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;
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</div>COMMISSIONER:<o:p></o:p>CHRIS
AKUFFO OPOKU DEPUTY CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER For: COMMISSIONER<o:p></o:p><div style="mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.5pt;
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</div>The complainant has been charged with
murder. He is currently on remand at the James Fort Prison. According to his
petition a copy of the bill of indictment has been served on him and from the
summary of evidence he finds that the evidence points to him as the perpetrator
of the offence.<o:p></o:p>The complainant has a different version of
the indictment and claims to know the real offender. He stated that the police
investigation did not cooperate with him when he told them what he knew about
the murder of the deceased.<o:p></o:p>He
is inviting this Commission to take up the conduct of the case and
reinvestigate it. <o:p></o:p>The
relief the complainant seeks in this Commission cannot be granted. The Commission
has no mandate to investigate criminal offences such as the complainant is
facing. It lies properly with the police and the Attorney General's office.<o:p></o:p>For
this reason the complaint is dismissed.<o:p></o:p>However
the Commission would under the circumstances make representation to the Legal
Aid Board to assign the complainant a competent counsel to assist him make the
appropriate defence before the trial court.<o:p></o:p>Since the Bill of Indictment has been
issued it means that the Attorney General has considered the available evidence
and has come to the conclusion that the Republic has a case against the
complainint.<o:p></o:p>The Director of the Legal Aid Board is
kindly requested to lend the complainant the necessary assistance if he has no
counsel of his own choice and cannot of his own effort and resources provide
one.<o:p></o:p>

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