The Director of the Advanced Body sculpts Centre popularly known as Obengfo Hospital, Dr. Dominic Obeng-Andoh has been discharged by the court on the basis of “want of prosecution.”
According to the court, at its last sitting, the prosecution promised to serve the accused at the next sitting but failed to do so.
“The court indicated that if they failed to serve them by January 7, 2019, the accused person will be discharged. Today is January 23, 2019, and the prosecution has still not complied with the orders of this honourable and prays for more time,” the court stated.
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According to the court, per Article 19 of the 1992 Constitution, “an accused person is presumed to be innocent until proven otherwise or the accused person has pleaded guilty.”
The court said if the prosecution were not ready to prosecute the case, “the accused person should not be made to suffer their actions,” hence discharged Obengfo and struck out the case for want of prosecution.
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“The prosecution can go for the accused persons when they are ready to prosecute the matter,” the court added.
Obengfo’s discharge followed defense counsel Nana Kofi Bekoe, who held the brief of Dr. Emmanuel Maurice Ankrah, praying the court to discharge Obengfo as the matter had been adjourned for three consecutive times as a result of “same reasons.”
The defense counsel prayed the court to take cognizance of the fact that the complainant in the matter had been absent anytime the matter was called.
On January 23, this year, Inspector Princess Tetteh who held brief of Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Mawenyo Nanegbe told the court that her instructions were that the police were preparing documents to serve Obenfo and prayed for a short date.
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Obengfo’s arraignment was after the Attorney General Department had advised that the two charges be maintained by the Police for the trial to proceed.
The Ghana Medical and Dental Council in Accra in July 2015 during their routine monitoring exercise received information that accused had failed to renew his annual license for registration to practice as a medical doctor and to operate a private facility since 2013 but still practiced in his hospital.
The Ghana Medical and Dental Council, therefore, reported the matter to the Police and on December 28, 2016, the Police went to the accused’s hospital to arrest him.
The Police, however, met him in the process of performing a certain medical procedure on a witness in the case.
The police after questioning Dr. Obeng-Andoh charged him to appear before the court on February 6, 2017.
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The accused, however, petitioned the Criminal Investigations Department and the court process was temporarily halted. The case docket was forwarded to the Attorney General’s Department for advice.
The Attorney General Department on May 8, 2018, advised that all charges preferred against Dr Obeng-Andoh be maintained.
Meanwhile, Obengfo is standing in another trial for murder following the death of Stacy Offie Darko, former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme who visited his medical facility at Weija, Accra.
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He is standing at a District Court in Accra together with his cleaner, Edward Amponsah who is being held for impersonation.
