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Mr. Nathaniel Kabu now known as Abdullah Ahmed is set to sue the state ‘claiming damages for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment, defamation and the abuse of his human rights in the sum of Ten million Ghana Cedis (GH¢10,000,000.00)’.
Abdullah Ahmed, an electrical engineer based in United Arab Emirate (UAE) was accused [ads1]by his wife, Grace Akanjog-yue for stealing their 3years child and her belongings while they were both travelling from Dubai to Ghana via Nigeria in 2013.
According to a petition, a copy obtained by Awake News, filed at the Anthony General’s Department on August 25, 2017, on 6th October, 2013, Mr. Ahmed was arrested by UAE Police, charged for stealing his own daughter and detained for over one year in UAE after his wife filed a complaint with the Ghana Police Services in Accra.
Mr. Ahmed, on October 29, 2014 when his passport was released to him travelled back to Ghana. In the nine pages petition filed on his behalf by his lawyers, “upon his arrival in Ghana, he decided to initiate a civil suit against his wife as well as the Ghana Police Service for authorising his arrest for a crime he had not committed through a lawyer by name Oliver Dzeble, to whom he gave his power of attorney”
The promising electrical engineer who was an expatriate employee of Takreer Oil Refinery, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and earning a gross salary of AED 24,959.00 (equivalent to GH¢30,231.78) lost his job and was left stranded for three (3) years in the UAE.
The petition further stated that Mr. Ahmed after losing his job petitioned the Interpol Headquarters in France in respect of the injustice meted out to him in Abu Dhabi.
Interpol on March 10, 2016, replied Mr. Ahmed, directing him to seek redress from the relevant national [Ghana] authorities, but was however, deported from the UAE in June, 2016.
Upon his return to Ghana, he petitioned the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards (PIPS) in relation to the response he received from the France based Interpol.
The petition says that, the PIPS upon receipt of his [Abdullah Ahmed] petition requested for a meeting. At the said meeting at PIPS, he was arrested by the Police with the same arrest warrant that was used to cause his arrest in the UAE. He was then held in Police custody at the Nima Police Station for eight (8) days.
On August 11, 2016, he was arraigned before the Circuit Court, Accra for which the he was refused bail. He was further held in Police custody for two (2) months, during which he applied for bail in the High Court, Accra and was granted on October 4, 2016.
He further stated that after being granted bail, he followed up to the Circuit Court to find out the next Court date where he was given a wrong court date which caused the Circuit Court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
On October 10, 2016, he appeared before the Circuit Court, Accra but the Court decided to rescind the bench warrant and fixed the trial date for November 8, 2016.
Mr. Ahmed, on July 6, 2017, acquitted and discharged by Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku after he was found not guilty of the all charges preferred against him.
Read the full story as presented in the petition:
25thAugust, 2017
The Minister for Justice and Attorney-General
Ministries, Accra
Dear Madam,
PETITION OF ABDULLAH AHMED AND NOTICE OF CIVIL ACTION PURSUANT TO SECTION 10 OF THE STATE PROCEEDINGS ACT, 1998, ACT 555.
Please, accept our compliments.
We act as solicitors for and on behalf of Abdullah Ahmed, the petitioner herein.
Our client is a citizen of the Republic of Ghana and an electrical engineer by profession who currently resides at Dawhenya, Tema.
Our client informs us that he changed his name from Nathaniel Kabu to Abdullah Ahmed on 22nd of May 2015. (Attached is a copy of the attested change of name marked ‘A’).
Our client travelled to the United Arab Emirates on 14th March, 2012, from Ghana to work with a United Arab Emirates company called Takreer Oil Refinery, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC). (Attached is a copy of his Visa into the United Arab Emirates marked as ‘B’).
Our client was an expatriate employee of Takreer Oil Refinery, Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where he earned a gross salary of AED 24,959.00 (equivalent to GH¢30,231.78). (Attached is a copy of his appointment letter marked ‘C’).
Our client in forms us that he invited his wife, Grace Akanjog-yue to join him in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) together with their daughter, Jasmine Fafali Kabu. (Attached is a copy of her visa into the United Arab Emirates marked as ‘D’).
Our client says that his wife, Grace Akanjog-yue, after two (2) months of living in the United Arab Emirates insisted on returning to Ghana.
Our client says further that, this development made him curious since all appeared to be well between them.
Out of curiosity, our client went through his wife’s belongings and found an Immigration Visa Lottery Application to the United States of America which she and an unknown man who was referred to as her husband in the said application, had applied for. (Attached is a copy of the application for immigrant visa marked as ‘E’).
The petitioner herein says that he confronted his wife about the said Visa Lottery Application, which angered his wife and she thereafter insisted on returning to Ghana.
Our client says he and his wife then agreed that she could return to Ghana with their daughter and also when his wife, Grace Akanjog-yue was ready to travel to the United States of America, he would come for their daughter.
Our client informs us that whiles in the United Arab Emirates, he gave his wife money for rent, upkeep for herself and that of their daughter.
Our client informs us that his wife told him that she did not want to live in our client’s house in Ghana when she returned and therefore wanted money to rent a place for herself and their daughter.
Our client therefore gave her the sum of Twenty Thousand Ghana Cedis (GH¢20,000) to meet her demands.
Our client says that for the safety of his wife and child, he decided to travel with them to Ghana on 30th July, 2013, via Nigeria to Ghana. (Attached is a copy of the flight ticket itinerary marked ‘F’).
Our client says that for reasons unknown to him, his wife left behind her luggage she was supposed to check in at the airport.
Upon seeing the luggage, our client informed the airport authorities of the luggage his wife had left behind but did not take them along since they did not belong to him. (Attached is a copy of an invoice given to him at the airport marked ‘G’).
Our client says when they arrived in Nigeria, his wife and daughter were supposed to board a plane to Ghana whilst he was to join a bus from Nigeria to Ghana. (Attached is a copy of their flight itinerary marked ‘H’).
Our client says further that Grace refused to board the plane and insisted on travelling to Ghana by bus with her husband,our client.
Our client informs that he agreed to his wife’s request and hired a vehicle to convey himself, his wife and daughter from Nigeria to Ghana.
On reaching Dawhenya, near Prampram in the Greater Accra Region, and as a concerned father, and husband, our client asked his wife to show him where she would be living together with his daughter, but she failed and or refused to do so and abandoned their daughter with him.
Our client had previously booked a return flight to the UAE which was scheduled for 1st August, 2013.
Our client informs us that since his wife unceremoniously left their daughter in his care, he could not leave their daughter behind in any other person’s care and decided to take her along with him to the UAE.
He then contacted a friend by the name Elizabeth Asiedu, a branch manager of Ecobank, Community One, Tema, for funds to purchase a ticket for his daughter.
Unfortunately for our client, he could not get a ticket for the same date as himself to return to the UAE, upon enquiries, he was informed by airport officials that there was a flight from Abidjan to the UAE which was available for the same date. (Attached is a copy of the boarding pass marked ‘I’).
Our client thereafter travelled to Abidjan with his daughter to enable him board the connecting flight to the UAE.
Three days into their arrival at Abu Dhabi in the UAE, he started receiving calls from a certain Mr and Mrs. Amaning, friends of his wife Grace, demanding for money to pay for his wife’s medical bills.
They claimed his wife had had a miscarriage and needed money for her medical bills.
Our client therefore sent them money via Express Funds to the said Mr. Amaning. (Attached is a copy of the receipt marked ‘J’).
On 6th October, 2013, our client says he received a call from the Police in Dubai to report himself to the CID Headquarters in the UAE.
Upon our client’s arrival at the CID Headquarters, he was arrested on the charge of having stolen his own daughter.
The UAE Police seized our client’s passport from him. (Attached is a copy of the bail bond marked ‘K’).
Our client says his passport was returned to him on 29th October, 2014, (Attached is a copy of the letter giving the orders for his passport to be returned to him, marked ‘L’).
Our client says upon his arrival in Ghana, he decided to initiate a civil suit against his wife as well as the Ghana Police Service for authorising his arrest for a crime he had not committed through a lawyer by name Oliver Dzeble, to whom he gave his power of attorney. (Attached is a copy of the Writ of Summons and Statement of Claim).
Our client in forms us that upon his arrest in Abu Dhabi, he lost his job, and was left stranded for three (3) years in the UAE.
He then wrote a letter to the Interpol Headquarters in France in respect of the injustice meted out to him in Abu Dhabi. (Attached is a copy of the letter to Interpol marked ‘N’).
Upon receiving his passport, our client returned to Ghana on 9th March, 2016, with his daughter from the UAE with a return flight scheduled for 17th April, 2016. (Attached is a copy of the ticket marked ‘O’).
However, upon his arrival, his wife demanded that he leave their daughter behind and return to the UAE without her.
Our client then requested for a refund of the money he had used to purchase the ticket from his wife since the cancellation was upon her insistence. (Attached is a copy of the receipt for the refund marked ‘P’).
Our client informs us that on 10th March, 2016, he received a response to his letter to Interpol wherein they directed him to seek redress from the relevant national authorities. (Attached is a copy of the reply marked ‘Q’).
Our client informs us further that he was deported from the UAE in June, 2016.
Upon his arrival in Ghana, he petitioned the Police Intelligence and Professional Standards, (PIPS), Accra, pursuant to the response he received from Interpol. (Attached is a copy of the petition to PIPS marked ‘R’).
Our client informs us that PIPS upon receipt of his petition requested for a meeting.
Our client informs us that upon attending the said meeting at PIPS, he was arrested by the Police with the same arrest warrant that was used to cause his arrest in the UAE. (Attached is a copy of the arrest warrant marked ‘S’), and was held in Police custody at the Nima Police Station for eight (8) days.
Our client informs us that on 11th August, 2016, he was arraigned before the Circuit Court, Accra, refused bail, and was held further in Police custody for two (2) months during which time he applied for bail in the High Court. (Attached is a copy of his application for bail marked ‘T’).
On 4th October, 2016, our client was granted bail by the High Court.
He says further that after being granted bail he followed up to the Circuit Court to find out the next Court date whereat he was given a wrong court date which caused the Circuit Court to issue a bench warrant for his arrest.
On 10th October, 2016, our client appeared before the Circuit Court, Accra.
The Court decided to rescind the bench warrant and the trial date was set for 8th November, 2016. (Attached is a copy of the Court proceedings marked ‘U’).
Our client says that whilst the matter was pending before the Circuit Court, a publication was made in the Mirror Newspaper as well as the website of the Daily Graphic (www.graphic.com.gh) on 3rd February, 2017, accusing him of stealing his own child as well as the belongings of his wife among others.(Attached is a copy of the Mirror Newspaper publication marked ‘V’).
On 6th July, 2017, our clientwas acquitted and discharged by Her Worship Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku after he was found not guilty of the charges proffered against him. (Attached is a copy of the Court’s judgment marked ‘W’).
Our client now suffers from permanent poliomyelitis which affects his lower limb as a result of the arrest, abandonment and frustration he suffered in the UAE.
Impressions from the MRI imaging conducted by the AL Halia Hospital in the UAE report a thin anterior horn of lateral meniscus having developmental anomaly and hypo plastic left femoral condyle. (Attached is a copy of the medical report marked ‘W’).
Our client was wrongly prosecuted and disgraced upon the instigation of his wife, Grace Akanjog-yue through the Ghana Police Service.
Our client says further that the Ghana Police Service failed, refused and neglected to act in a professional manner by causing his arrest and subsequent detention without conducting proper investigation into the matter. (Attached is a copy of a video recording of our client’s meeting with the Police at PIPS marked ‘X’).
Our client lost his job which earned him a gross salary of AED 24,959.00 which is equivalent to GH¢29,946.93. He was deported, lost his livelihood, lost his friends and now struggling to make ends meet.
He was at the peak of his engineering career only to be brought to the level of a pauper through injustice.
In consequence, our client’s reputation has been seriously damaged in the eyes of well-meaning persons in the society and has suffered distress and embarrassment.
Our client is claiming damages against the State for malicious prosecution, false imprisonment ,defamation and the abuse of his human rights in the sum of Ten million Ghana Cedis (GH¢10,000,000.00).
We are hereby serving notice of our client’s intention to commence legal action against the Republic of Ghana pursuant to section 10 of the State Proceedings Act, 1998, Act 555.
We wish to say further that, this letter is not intended to be a complete statement of the facts of our client’s rights, and should not be construed as a waiver of any legal or equitable rights or remedies, all of which are expressly reserved.
We look forward to your cooperation.
Source: AwakeAfrica.com / Efo Korsi Senyo / senyo@awakeafrica.com
