The High Court in Accra has discharged Gregory Afoko, the man accused of murdering Adams Mahama, a former Upper East Regional Chairman of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), and one other.
Afoko had been accused of conspiring with Asabke Alangdi, who had already been convicted, for the murder of Adams Mahama in May 2015.
In court on Monday, December 1, the trial High Court presided over by Justice Marie-Louise Simmons, discharged the accused persons on the grounds that the trial had been adjourned more than six times without any activity.
The court also dissolved the jury, which had only five members out of seven in attendance.
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