A Sekondi High Court will on Monday, July 19, 2021 give a ruling involving a Marine Engineer at the Ghana Maritime Authority (GMA), Michael Nunoo, who was accused of shooting Emmanuel Badu-Acheampong in 2018.
The accused is standing trial with the charges of attempted murder and possession of unlawful arms.
The Presiding Judge, Mrs. Afia Nyarko Adu Amankwa, after listening to submissions from the prosecutor, Mrs. Adlaide Kobiri-Woode, a State Attorney and counsel for accused, Lawyer Joseph K. Abakah, adjourned the case to July 19,2021 for a seven-member jury to give their verdict.
The judge admonished the jurors to be judicious in their judgement after listening to both parties in the case.
According to the prosecution, on February 27, 2018, Emmanuel Badu-Acheampong, a businessman was reportedly shot in the abdomen during a scuffle with the accused, Michael Nunoo, his bosom friend, for the latter’s inability to pay back an amount of GHc 30,000.00 owed the complainant for more than a year.
The incident which occurred at the MAYSPOT Restaurant at Fijai in Takoradi, left a bullet in complainant’s abdomen leading to his admission at the Effia-Nkwanta Regional Hospital. He was later referred to undergo a surgical operation at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra.
Doctors explained that they could not remove the bullet which was lodged at a very sensitive part of the abdomen because any attempt to forcibly remove the lethal metal could paralyze him.
