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Jonas Asamoah, who has accused celebrated Ghanaian musician Akosua Adjepong of assisting her brother Frank Agyemang Badu to dupe him, told an Accra Circuit Court that he had been informed that the musician’s brother is a land guard.

According to Mr Asamoah, midway through the transaction to purchase the land, his wife told him that she had gathered that Frank did not own the land but was acting as a land guard on the said land.

The complainant Jonas Asamoah said he immediately informed Akosua about the development, but she denied it, saying that “she can bet her life.”

Akosua Adjepong and her brother Frank Agyemang Badu, a building contractor aka Killer Boss, are before the court on charges of conspiracy to commit crime and fraudulent transaction.

They are alleged to have defrauded one Jonas Asamoah to the tune of GH¢160,000 and a Toyota RAV 4 valued at GH¢100,000.

Led in his evidence in chief by ASP Agnes Boafo, he told the court that prior to the payment Akosua and her brother gave him a document relating to the land bearing the name of one Dora Okyere.

He said the accused persons told him that they were yet to change the document to reflect the transfer of ownership of the land.

He said he demanded an indenture but Akosua told him that once the ownership of the land would be transferred from Dora’s name into his (complainant), there was no need for an indenture.

He said a search at the Lands Commission revealed that the said document was correct, but the site plan did not bear the name Dora Okyere.

He said he decided to stop the purchase of the land but Akosua convinced him that the information given to him at the Commission was untrue and subsequently led him to another ‘official’ at the commission who purportedly told the complainant that the document was legitimate and that there was no problem with the site plan.

The complainant told the court that although he was not given any site plan or indenture to the land in question, he agreed to make part payment of GH¢65,000 due to the popularity of Akosua Adjepong.

He told the court that he was asked to get a surveyor to prepare a site plan for him at the cost of GH¢1,300 and Akosua later gave him two indentures of transfer of ownership from Dora Okeyere to him.

Jonas Asamoah told the court that few days after making the second payment of GH¢35,000, Frank Agyemang Badu approached him and demanded a vehicle to offset the balance.

He said he gave out a Toyota RAV 4 valued at GH¢100,000, which was more than the balance so Akosua’s brother proposed to give him two additional plots of land behind the West Hills Mall to offset the rest of the balance.

He presented to receipts of the payments, the two indentures, a copy of the cheque, land documents, and a copy of text messages between him and Akosu Adjepong to the court as exhibits.

The court, presided over Mrs Priscilla Dappah Mireku, adjourned the matter to December 13, 2017 for the complainant to end his testimony.