My husband told me Afoko pouref the acid -Adams wife
'My husband told me Afoko poured the acid' - Adams
Mahama's wife testifies
Wife of Adams Mahama, the deceased Upper East Regional
Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has testified
against the man accused of murdering her husband.
Hajia Zenabu Adams has told an Accra High Court that
before her husband died, he told her that Gregory Afoko and
Asabke Alangbi poured acid on him leading to his death.
Gregory Afoko, is being held on the charges of conspiracy to
commit crime and murder of the late Upper East Regional
Chairman in May 2015.
Gregory Afoko has pleaded not guilty in a court hearing
constituted by a
seven-member jury.
Adams Mahama died of extensive acid burns and shock
lungs (acute respiratory distress syndrome), an autopsy
report has indicated.
A car seat on which Mahama sat during the acid attack had
been burned seriously.
He died a day after he was bathed with acid by some
unscrupulous men, one of whom is alleged to be Gregory
Afoko, brother of the chairman of opposition party, Paul
Afoko who was also later suspended from the party.
The case has tavelled on for nine months. Introducing the
state's first witness, the prosecutor Mathew Amponsah led
Hajia Adams to give her testimony.
"My husband returned home at 11pm crying in the car,
saying I am dying, younger brother of the politician Paul
Afoko and Asabke have poured a substance on me," Hajia
Adams told the court in Hausa.
A gallon of acid was said to have been found at the home of
the second suspect Asabke Alangbi, prosecution has said.
Later during the trial, Ekow Korsah who is counsel for
Gregory Afoko complained he is yet to receive any police
medical form detailing the police's version of the cause of
Adams Mahama's death.
Although he has a copy of a medical report, he is
demanding an official police report and refrained from
stating categorically that the two reports may be different.
The state prosecutor however told counsel for the accused
that no such police medical report exists.

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