Mr. Mawuli Dzah, Sogakofe High Court Registrar
The Registrar of Sogakorfe High Court, Mr. Mawuli K. Dzah who is at the centre of forged certificates of letters of administration for a deceased family and diverting filing fees, the 3% estate value and other related fees due to the state into his personal pocket is in hot waters as applications in the case declined to appear in court.
The applicants, Mr. Daniel Wormawor and Mr. Emmanuel Vormawor [ads1]refused to appear in court upon the invitation of the Court Registrar. According to the applicants, they don’t understand why they should be going to court again after they have gotten the certificate for the letters of administration, withdrew their deceased brother’s money from the bank for the family and paid all monies due Mr. Dzah and other agents.
“I don’t understand what is going on. We have paid the registrar all his monies. We first paid him GH¢800.00 followed by other monies including his 10% commission making a total of GH¢7,300.00. We also paid GH¢5,000.00 to Believer, the man that took us to him[the agent]. We don’t owe him or any bodies any money in this court matter so I don’t know why you [Awake Investigates’ Efo Korsi Senyo] should be calling me on this matter” – one of the applicants poured out his frustrations.
“The registrar also called us to come to court tomorrow again, but we told him we will not come because we paid him all his money” – He added
The refusal of the applicants to appear in court is coming on the heals following Awake’s investigations which revealed that the certificates they were given by the court registrar did not follow the due process.
The two was scheduled by the Court Registrar to appear before the court on Monday, December 4, 2017 to help complete a process schemed by the court registrar to help him allegedly cover up his irregularities. According to our investigations, the case was, however, adjourned by the judge after he was hinted that he could possibly preside over a possible irregularity.
Background:
Awake Investigates has uncovered multiple activities of irregularity of the court registrar one of which he signed a certificate of letters of administration on November 2, 2017 for the administrators of the estate of the late Samuel Akakpo Vormawor without the applicants of the letter of the administration (Mr. Daniel Wormawor and Mr. Emmanuel Vormawor) appearing in court and or the High Court judge granting the letters of the administration.
Our investigation has revealed that Mr. Dzah forged the certificate and receipt number VIDE JS. No. 1522255 which on record was for another applicant in another court case and the applicants have successfully used the fake certificate to withdraw about GH¢76,000 from the deceased’s bank account at Dansoman.
Awake Investigates also established that Mr. Dzah was paid an initial amount of GHc800 for the court filing fees and subsequently paid GH¢6,500 after the money was successfully withdrawn by the administrators of the estate (Mr. Daniel Wormawor and Mr. Emmanuel Vormawor)
Efo Korsi Senyo, On his way to Sogakofe High Court
In an interview with Awake Investigates’ Efo Korsi Senyo, Mr. Dzah confessed to having prepared the certificate of the letter of administration for the applicants on the blind side of the court procedures and the judge, but denied receiving any personal benefit, explaining he did so to assist the applicant to get funds to file for the necessary court processes.
“Infact, I did this out of humanitarian grounds with no personal benefits. They came to me far back in October this year, but they were not having money to file the processes. They had to go for a loan of GH¢4,000.00 but they came back begging me that the lender gave them only GH¢2,000.00. Meanwhile, that GH¢2,000.00 cannot do this so I was forced to give them Registrar’s authority note….yes, authority note in the form of a certificate….yes, is the certificate….so they can go and cash part of the money.” – Mr. Dzah told Efo Korsi Senyo after a member of the Awake Investigates Team went to his office to file for search on the case.
“Infact, I faulted” – Mr. Dzah added
However, in a follow up interview with one of the applicants, Mr. Emmanuel Vormawor, he insisted that they paid GH¢800 being the filing and other fees and were, therefore, not in need of assistance, adding they had paid all commissions he had requested.
When asked how much money had been withdrawn from the bank with the fake certificates, Mr. Dzah admitted the money had been withdrawn from the bank but failed to disclose the amount.
In a 41 minutes video, yet to be released, Mr. Dzah has, however, pleaded with Awake Investigates team to halt its investigations into the issues and that he is ready to meet conditions.
More coming soon…