Accra March 31, GNA - A Human Rights Court has ordered the re-instatement of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Gifty Mawuenya Tehoda, who got embattled in the ‘cocaine turn baking soda case’ in 2011.
The order came was after the Court had determined that DSP Tehoda was wrongfully dismissed from the Ghana Police Service.
It, therefore, ordered that all her entitlements, allowances and promotion due her for the past five years, be awarded to her.
The Court, additionally, awarded GH¢10,000.00 as general damages and GH¢8,000.00 as the cost against the Ghana Police Service and the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI)
According to the Court, the dismissal of DSP Tehoda constituted breach of natural justice, the right to be heard and fair trial, during a Service Enquiry, instituted by the Police.
The Court also asked the BNI to pay GH¢5,000.00 as damages to the DSP Tehoda for wrongful detention.
In March this year, the Court, presided over by Justice Gifty Agyei-Addo, granted an application by DSP Tehoda’s lawyers to adopt proceedings, including addresses before Justice Kofi Essel Mensah because he had been dismissed from the Judicial Service.
This paved pay for the case to progress.
In September 2011, Nana Ama Martins was nabbed over large quantities of cocaine, which later turned into baking soda during the trial.
DSP Tehoda, who was named in the missing cocaine case, was subsequently, interdicted by the Ghana Police Service.
She was then tried by an Accra Circuit Court for her involvement.
However, at the end of the trial, she was acquitted and discharged.
DSP Tehoda then proceeded to the Human Rights Court seeking reliefs for wrongful dismissal from the Ghana Police Service and an order for her reinstatement, compensations as well as general damages suffered over the years.
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