A worker at the Marwako restaurant has said that Jihad Chaaban, a Supervisor, involved in the assault case dipped Ms Evelyn Boakye the alleged victim’s face into a blender containing ginger, garlic, onion and pepper.
Ms Susan Yayera Dovlo, an employee of the restaurant, however denied that the blended ingredients splashed into the face of Miss Boakye. Giving her evidence in chief before the Abeka District Court, she also denied that the blender Chaaban was holding fell to the ground.
Led in evidence by Chief Inspector H.A Hanson, she said on February 26, this year she went to work at about 2:30 pm and one of her seniors informed her that they don’t have enough pepper so she should go and blend some.
According to her she was told to blend more because customers at the restaurant were many. Ms Dovlo said she called Ms Boakye to assist her to blend the ingredients and she obliged.
According to her Ms Boakye suggested that she (Ms Dovlo) should chop the ingredients so that she (Ms Boakye) could blend them.
“I chopped the onions and blended the ingredients. We managed to blend the first one and in our bid to blend the second one, the blender halted. We put the blender on and it began making noise so we put it off,’’ witness said.
Ms Dovlo told the court that when the blender went off, Chaaban entered and shouted “Shara Matta, what are you doing. Shara Matta the court was told meant prostitute in Lebanese language. According to her Chaaban took off the blender from its motor and poured the “unblended’’ out leaving some blended quantity in the blender.
The witness said Chaaban held the head of the victim and dipped her face into the blender.
Ms Dovlo said the victim went into the restaurant dressing room but she did not see when the victim left the Restaurant. Answering questions under cross-examination, the witness admitted that she did not hear Chaaban yell at the victim that she wanted to destroy the blender.
Meanwhile, the victim has ended her testimony.
Prosecution has also informed the court that most of their witnesses in the matter have been transferred and it was going to be difficult to get them in court.
According to prosecution the witnesses were therefore reporting to work from other branches of the Restaurant. He however assured the court he would produce them to the court. This was after the court had asked him to whether or not he wanted the witnesses to be summoned before it.
The court advised the Prosecution to produce their witnesses. Chaaban aged 26, was charged with offensive conduct by calling the victim a prostitute, intentionally and unlawfully causing harm and assault.
Chaaban has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
He was on February 28, this year, alleged to have assaulted the victim Evelyn Boakye for fidgeting with a blender and working slowly.
Chaaban, a brother –in-law of the owner of Marwako Restaurant at the Abelemkpe branch allegedly grabbed the neck of the victim angrily and dipped her face into a blended pepper which poured on the table.
Hearing continues on April 3 before the court presided over by Ms Victoria Ghansah
Source: GNA
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ITS SO SAD WHEN SOME PEOPLE EQUATE CRIMES TO DEHUMANIZATION. OF COURSE OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN OTHER COUNTRIES COMMIT THE WORST OF CRIMES BUT HEY! THEY DON'T GO FAR TO DEHUMANIZE THE CITIZENS. QUIET RECENTLY IN SAUDI ARABIA A GHANAIAN NANNY WAS BEHEADED JUST BECAUSE THE CHILD SHE HAD LOOKED AFTER FOR SO LONG MISTAKENLY FELL OF HER HAND.IF YOU GUYS KNOWS HOW THESE FAKE WHITE ARABS TREAT US,THIS ACT OF TREACHERY COMMITTED BY THIS GUY WILL NOT BE TOLERATED AT ALL IN OUR OWN LAND.DO YOU GUYS THINK AS A BLACK MAN YOU CAN SET UP A BUSINESS IN THESE ARAB COUNTRIES? WHO BORN DOG.NOWAY.THE REAL WHITE GUYS I MEAN THE AMERICANS AND EUROPEANS MISTREATS US BUT NOT TO THE EXTEND THESE ARABS MISTREATS US. IF YOU GUYS KNOWS HOW OUR SISTERS ARE SUFFERING IN KUWAIT AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES,YOU WILL NOT ALLOW THEM TO OPERATE IN GHANA BUT THIS IS GHANA WE MAKE OURSELVES SO CHEAP IN THE EYES OF THE WORLD BY OUR POLITICIANS WHO GO AROUND BEGGING FOR MONEY AND WHEN THEY GET THE MONEY THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO EFFECTIVELY USE IT.WE BECOME A LAUGHING STOCK.THESE ARABS ARE WICKED AND EVIL TOWARDS US.NO ONE SHOULD BE ***barred word*** OF THEIR SO CALLED WEALTH.SOME BLACK NANNIES WHO WORK FOR THE SO CALLED ARAB BILLIONAIRES ARE MADE TO WORK FROM DAWN TO MIDNIGHT 7 DAYS A WEEK WITH NO PAY IF SHE COMPLAINS SHE IS BEATEN UP AND WHEN SHE RUNS AWAY TO THE POLICE SHE IS PUT IN JAIL.GHANA IS A HAVEN FOR THESE RIFFRAFFFFFS, YES IN GHANA PEOPLE SEE THEM AS WHITE SO THEY GET WINGS AND LOOK DOWN ON US. UNTIL WE GET EDUCATED AND SEE THESE GUYS AS NOT WHITE,THEN THEY WILL BEGIN TO RESPECT US.
There we go again. We really are a pathetic bunch of the homo sapiens specie. Here we are with a nonentity Lebanese ars3-hole of a manger treating one of our kind with disrespect and disdain.and what do we do ? I'm sure there are some Ghanaians who would even say 'Oh this is nothing' Don't we have any self esteem at all?In the first place a Ghanaian will never be allowed to operate such a business in any of these low-life illiterate Levantine countries anyway ,not to talk of calling their citizen a pr0st1tute. This is what we have been brought to. On our knees. If we help Nana Addo to fix the economy,Ghanaians will not have to travel to God-forsaken places where there is no respect for a black person.
Massa ..U must be dumbest person on the planet,im not saying the manager should go scot free..what im saying ,why the racist remarks and why the generalization...Is is the Bl33 im writing or what.Stop being a hypocrite ....
Why dont u travel to kuwait or quatar and do that to a citizen there then u will see where ur life will end up. Have u hear any lebanese claiming a ghaianin came to their country and maltreated their citizen and went free before? if it happens they are made to face the law there so this guy isnt above the law here eithe, even callin her a pros*stitut3 shows the kind of manager he is to his workers so u rather shhhut up if u dont understand what krekatu said since it is english
***barred word***,stop being hypocritical and a racist ,We go to other countries and commit worse crimes ,Murder,drug dealing and so on....stop being biased ,its an isolated incidence and happens every where ...stop victimizing one race and generalizing,if you live a in a glass house ..........Unless you havnt stepped a foot out of Ghana and dont know what our brothers and sisters are doing outside..Ignoramous
At least from this witness he held the victims neck and pushed her head into the blender, and for what? The witness also testified that the victim was called a ***barred word***, if he's got any respect for this employee he works with will he call her a ***barred word*** just because a mere blender has stopped working? God save our Motherland and its people.
He will still be punish so stop protecting him....We Africans need to learn and show this fake white Lebanese that we have pride,can you go to any Arabian country and do this to a citizen in that country ???? We need to learn, wish we have the laws into our hands, and we will not hesitate to stone this guy to death..