DISCLAIMER
Let me begin this write up by saying that I am fully aware of the Legal offence of SUB JUDICE which is discussing an ongoing trial in the Court in the media.
As at the time of writing there is no trial going on in this matter. But if the powers that be think otherwise then I and not my publisher is guilty of SUB JUDICE.
The story of the death of Mrs. Lillian Dedjoe begun in July 2020. I was at my Kasoa residence convalescing from two surgeries when a very noble gentleman walked in. He told me two lawyers have each recommended me to him to take up his case.
After listening very closely to him, I gathered that his case was more LOCAL TRADITIONAL POLITICS than actual Court room legal battle.
My client is Prince Charles Dedjoe, a very handsome wealthy businessman in oil and gas and estate and other interests, and unanimously selected to become the AWOAMEFIA of the Anlo State.
Currently somebody is strutting about as the AWOAMEFIA. He has been convicted for contempt of court for calling himself Awoamefia by the HO High Court presided over by Mr. Justice Apaloo. His Appeal at the Court of Appeal was dismissed.
Prince Charles Dedjoe and his elders showed me very elaborate plans that have been made for his outdooring as AWOAMEFIA with over ten operational committees and I told them point blank that this was not necessary.
I told them installing a king peacetime is different from installing a king during war time. Denkyirahene Boa Amponsem I was installed at the battle field. Chaka the zulu was made king at the battle field, Alexander the Great was installed same day when his father was assassinated at the theater.
We scrapped all the arrangements and put in place a solid iron cast master plan. The making of Prince Charles Dedjoe the AWOAMEFIA of Anlo, but after so much promise and fail, a breakthrough came and we started a road map.
Monday 8th March was a public holiday, in lieu of 6th March Independence Day which fell on Saturday. At about 4pm I was in my living room watching TV when my mobile rang:
“Captain, this is Doctor Dedjoe. My brother, Togbuiga has been arrested on a charge of murder of his wife at East Legon Police Station.” I screamed so much that my father in law’s daughter rushed from the kitchen to find out what was going on.
“What happened?
“On 1st March 2021 in the evening the wife insulted my brother so much that he hit her eye brow with Charlie Wote. Next day she seized his gun and called me that he was going to kill my brother. On Saturday dawn, My brother was asleep in his bed room when he heard a noise, he woke up to check and it was his wife lying at the stair case, she was pronounced dead at the Hospital……”
“Has post mortem been done?”
“I don’t think so, yet.”
“Doctor, the law is that if you hit somebody and the person dies within one year and a day, then you are guilty of murder. I pray the post mortem when it is done will show no report of bleeding from the eye …… can I also go and visit him?”
“Why not? East Legon Police Station”.
One hour later I was at East Legon Police Station in a very impressive edifice, incidentally officially commissioned by me as the Deputy Minister of Interior on behalf of my boss 2006 one day before I was reshuffled out of Government by President Kuffour.
I saw my client, suddenly having lost weight, after sleeping in cells over night. “Togbuiga, what happened?”
“Lawyer, in late February, I went to Lome to see a spiritualist as to why I am having so many obstacles to my installation. I was told my wife had cheated on me, so the stool was angry. I have two women in my life, the wife Lillian and concubine, with each of them I have two kids. The spiritualist was emphatic that it was my wife Lillian.
On my way back to Accra I stopped over in the house of my wife Lillian at Sogakope and told my father in law and he promised to talk to his daughter.
“When I arrived at the house, my wife came to my bedroom knelt down and confessed that a senior journalist had made love to her in his office but she was sorry.”
“I told her we have to pacify the stool and cleanse her, but that she can no longer become the Queen mother of Anlo. I sent elders who went to perform customary rite for my concubine to become a wife.
“On 1st March 2021 Monday evening, my wife abused me and I slapped her with my slippers. She immediately took my gun that she will kill me and seize my gun until her father brought me the gun the next morning (2nd March, 2021).
“Saturday dawn I was asleep when I heard a crash I went out to see my wife lying at the stair case. We took her to the hospital where she was declared dead.”
For one million reason I will end this article here.
Written by
Nkrabeah Effah Dartey
The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect The Chronicle’s stance.
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