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Lawyers of Dr. Stephen Kwabena Opuni are expected to move a motion at the Supreme Court seeking the removal of Justice Clemence Honyenuga from proceeding with his trial. Dr Opuni, the former CEO of COCOBOD who is standing trial with two others for allegedly causing financial loss to the state, …

• Stephen Opuni’s lawyers are saying the trial judge is biased towards their client • They want him to recuse himself from the case • But the judge said his will not Justice Clemence Jackson Honyenuga, the Supreme Court Judge, has been accused of being biased in the ongoing trial …

The Criminal Division of the Accra High Court presided over by Justice Clemence Jackson Honyernugah has ordered Dr Opuni and two others to open their defence in the COCOBOD trial. Ruling on a submission of no case, the court said, the Prosecution succeeded in proving all the charges against the …

  Lawyer Nutifafa Nutsukpi, counsel for the second and third accused persons in the ongoing trial of Dr Stephen Opuni, former COCOBOD CEO and Seidu Agongo, businessman, says Yaw Osafo-Maafo, the former Senior Minister directed the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police Service to take over the investigation because …

The principal investigator in the trial of Dr Stephen Opuni and Mr Seidu Agongo, Chief Inspector Thomas Prempeh Mercer, today told the court that during police interrogation of Mr Agongo, he stated that the amount of twenty-five thousand Ghana cedis (GH₵25,000.00) which he paid into the bank account of Dr …

The fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of former COCOBOD CEO and two others was found wanting after it emerged that she issued different fertilizer certificates to Sidalco without recourse to an Act of parliament regulating how her office is administered. The witness, Dr. Felicia Ansah-Amprofi, who is the …

  An Accra High Court, hearing the case of Dr Stephen Opuni and two others has dismissed a submission of counsel for one of the accused Mr Samuel Cudjoe on an application to stay proceedings pending the determination of an interlocutory appeal. The Court presided over by Justice Clemence Honyenugah, …

Firebrand Member of Parliament (MP) for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has warned the embattled former COCOBOD Chief Executive Officer, Dr. Stephen Opuni to keep mute. “The NDC and Opuni shouldn’t dare me. They have no idea the information I have on Opuni, it will surprise you. We have allowed them to be …

An Accra High Court has heard that some farmers who appeared before a Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) fact-finding committee on fertilizer claimed that the Lithovit fertilizer which they used on their farms was like water and, therefore, drinkable. The farmers are said to have complained about the quality of the …

An application by the Attorney General in defense of a key state witness; Dr. Yaw Adu-Ampomah, who has been cited for perjury in the ongoing COCOBOD case, has been rejected by Justice Clemence Honyenugah, Appeal Court Judge, presiding over the trial of Dr. Stephen K. Opuni and businessman, Seidu Agongo, …