An Accra Circuit Court has ordered the police to file its disclosures in the case in which Emmaneul Kwakye Asare, broadcast Journalist, is being held over publication of false news.
Circuit Court 8 ordered that the filing be done within seven days.
Filing the disclosures will enable the court to conduct Case Management Conference and fix a date for trial to begin.
The matter has been adjourned to September 29, 2025.
On August 27, this year, Asare was admitted to GHC100,000 bail after being on remand for over two weeks.
This was after he pleaded not guilty to a charge of publication of false news concerning the August 6 helicopter crash, which claimed eight lives.
Asare, Host of the programme dubbed “Nsepafie” on Wontumi Radio, is alleged to have said on live broadcast on August 9 that “if your family member is part of those who died, you must hold President Mahama responsible because he is aware of everything.”
In prosecution’s fact, Asare was alleged to have accused President Mahama of causing the helicopter crash at Akrofuom in the Ashanti Region.
The said statement generated an uproar within sections of the public.
Based on intelligence, on August 12, Asare was arrested and admitted the offence in his caution statement.
Source: GNA
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