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Opuni trial: How seven Supreme Court justices voted on Honyenuga’s reinstatement

• Justice Honyenga has been reinstated as trial judge for criminal case former COCOBOD CEO, Stephen Opuni • The Supreme Court reversed an earlier decision that barred him from sitting on the case • The seven member panel voted 4-3 in favor of the state Finality was brought to the …

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Opuni Trial: First accused wants Trial Judge to abandon trial

Counsel for Dr Stephen Opuni, former Chief Executive of COCOBOD and two others have filed two separate applications at the High Court and the Court of Appeal respectively. The application filed at the High Court was a motion on notice for the trial Judge, Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, to abandon …

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Opuni Trial: Witness names farmers who drank the liquid fertilizer

Dr Yaw Adu-Ampomah, the third prosecution witness in the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, the former CEO of COCOBOD and one other on Thursday mentioned names of some farmers, who drank the Lithovit Liquid Fertilizer. They are Nana Obeng Akrofi, the Eastern Regional Chief Farmer of the Cocoa, Coffee and …

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Hard drives containing Opuni trial, others stolen from Court

Hard drives in about five High Courts located in the Law Court Complex building have been stolen from system units of computers used for recording and storing Court records and proceedings, Starr News has learnt. The case of theft is believed to have happened during the just ended legal vacation …

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Court refuses to halt trial of Opuni, Agongo

Seidu Agongo, the businessman accused of fraudulently selling substandard fertiliser to the Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD), with the alleged assistance of Dr Stephen Kwabena Opuni, a former Chief Executive of COCOBOD, has failed to halt his trial at the Accra High Court. In a ruling yesterday, the court, presided over …

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