The family of a Raped victim family has expressed disgust at the slow pace of prosecution of the case which occurred and reported to the Police over a year ago.
A press conference addressed by Counsel of the raped victim, Lawyer Justice Abdulai he called on the Ghana Police Service to as a matter of urgency, begin the prosecution of a Yemen resident in Ghana Ould Mohamed Mahamoud, who allegedly raped a 14-year-old girl in Accra.
The Counsel for the victim and the family, Justice Abdulai Esq. of Crown Legal Bureau said the family had petitioned the Director-General of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Ghana Police, DCOP Maame Yaa Tiwaa Addo-Danquah and other relevant agencies over the conduct of the police prosecution whilst providing every information to the police to enable them to carry out prosecution.
He said, the CID is delaying the prosecution without any reason.
The petition which he said was addressed to the Director-General of the CID on November 4, 2018, explained that “the family of our client (name withheld) informed us that sometime in December 2017, the victim was defiled by Ould Mohamed Mahamoud, 54, in West Legon in Accra. The issue was reported to the Kwabenya Police Station where a medical form was issued to attend a government hospital for examination.”
Lawyer Abdulai Esq. explained that on the day of the event, the victim was said to have returned from school and was lured by the suspect Ould Mohamed Mahamoud into a hideout where he drugged her and forcibly had sex with her without her consent or participation.
He said that the suspect was subsequently arrested by the police somewhere in Tema Community 8 but the prosecution could not commence because the suspect and his family members petitioned the office of the Chief Imam, His Eminent Dr. Sheikh Osman Nuhu Shaributu for the matter to be settled out of court.
“Even though the family of the victim had been attending the meetings at the office of the National Chief Imam, the suspect, had rather surprisingly resort to issuing threats to kill the victim and her family among other things,” he said.
He added that aside the case of defilement and the subsequent threat of death directed at the victim and her family greatly affected the victim who now suffers from post-traumatic stress, disorders, among other emotional complications.
Lawyer Abdulai Esq said “as a result, the family had to send her away for medical treatments. The family now fear for their own lives and that of their helpless daughter. We are calling on the police to swiftly arrest the suspect and have him prosecuted in accordance with the laws of Ghana.”
Lawyer Abdulai Esq. said in the course of the illegal sexual act, Ould Mohamed Mahamoud allegedly took video and pictures of the act of which he has started using to blackmail the victim.
He said “the suspect is widely known as Omar but his true identity is unknown considering the multiplicity of the names on his passports.
He showed pictures of passports allegedly belonging to the suspect.
Although the accused holds Malian passport with number B0264759, dated 16th November 2012 and with the name Ould Mohamed Mahamoud, he is well known to come from Yemen, somewhere in the Middle East.
The suspects also holds a Nigerian Passport with the name Dave Maurice, a Chaldian Passport with the name Mahamoudoum Mohamed Tichandeien, Malian Passport, South African passport, Guinea Passport, and other passports all bearing different names and different dates of birth.
According to Lawyer Abdulai Esq. for the suspect to possess more that one passport, all bearing varied names and dates of birth should send a clear signal to the police service of the kind of person he is.
“This is even an issue of a security threat to our country, yet the police have closed their eyes to all these anomalies,” he said.
Below are evidences of passports the suspect is using:
By: PROSPER AGBENYEGA