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Man charged in President Kuffuor's accident was behaving
abnormally - Witness
Accra, Feb. 22 Ghanadot/GNA – Dr. Nana
Okine Brako, a Medical Officer in-charge of the clinic at
the Bureau of National Investigations, on Friday told an
Accra Fast Track High Court that Thomas Osei, the man who
drove into the President’s car, looked nervous and was
acting abnormally when he observed him.
He said, he therefore, requested for a test to be conducted
on him.
Dr Brako, the eighth prosecution witness (PW), made the
statement when Mr Edward Agyeman Doudu, Chief State
Attorney, led him in evidence at the ongoing trial of Mr
Osei.
Dr Brako said the accused was taken to a medical laboratory
and he tested positive for cocaine.
Mr Kwame Boafo Akuffo, counsel for the accused, has alleged
in court that the cut on Osei's eyebrow was caused by
assault meted out to him by some personnel of President’s
security at the BNI office.
He said at the appropriate time he would subpoena those
personnel to appear in court to answer for those charges.
Dr Brako said during cross-examination by Mr Akuffo that the
test on the accused was done to confirm whether Osei was
nervous or had taken any substance.
Asked whether the test could give the quantity of cocaine in
the system of the accused, he replied in he negative but
said it only proved that there was cocaine in the urine.
Osei, 51, a businessman, has been charged with five counts
of motor traffic offences, use of narcotic drugs and failing
to change ownership of the vehicle.
The charges are dangerous driving, negligently causing harm,
driving under the influence of alcohol, failing to give way
to Presidential siren and the use of narcotic drugs.
The President escaped unhurt.
Osei has pleaded not guilty to all the charges levelled
against him.
GNA
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