Defence counsels for Dr Dominic Kwame Obeng-Andoh, Chief Executive Officer of Obengfo Hospital on Thursday moved to the High Court to secure bail for the “ailing” medical practitioner who is being held for murder.
Dr Obeng-Andoh aka Dr Obengfo is being held for allegedly murdering Ms Stacy Offei Darko, deputy Chief Executive Officer of National Entrepreneurship Innovative Programme (NEIP) who had visited his medical facility for his services.
At the High Court Dr Morris Ankrah who led the defence team, was unable to move the application for bail because the Attorney General was only served with hearing notice on June 13.
Dr Ankrah said the Circuit Court had admitted his client to GHC 50,000 in the matter in which Dr Obengfo is being held for allegedly practicing without licence and operating health facility without authority.
Dr Obengfo who is on admission at the Greater Accra Hospital has however been remanded by the District Court over the murder charge.
Ms Frances H. Ansah, a Senior State Attorney who was in court over a different matter held brief for the AG and prayed the court for a short adjournment because the Attorney General might have not received the hearing notice.
Ms Ansah said the adjournment would enable the Attorney General’s Office to respond to the bail application.
The trial Judge, Mr Justice Kofi Dorgu urged defence counsel to condition the mind of his client that the bail application would take some time. The trial judge adjourned the matter to June 21 to enable the Office of the Attorney General file its response to Dr Obengfo’s bail appllication.
Dr Obengfo has been remanded into Police custody over the death of Stacy Offei Darko, the Deputy Chief Executive officer of the National Entrepreneurship Innovation Programme (NEIP) by an Accra District Court. The 49-year-old presently unlicensed medical practitioner allegedly performed a surgery on Ms Offei Darko, whose office operates from the Jubilee House, the seat of the Presidency.
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