Plot To Have Ayikai Doblo Elder Jailed For Life Backfires As High Court Has Acquitted And Discharged Him
An Accra High Court has acquitted and discharged an elder of Ayikai Doblo in the Ga West municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Nii Amoo Doodu, who is affectionately called Nii Azonto, TJ after successfully appealing a four-year conviction and imprisonment in August 2021.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
An Accra High Court has acquitted and discharged an elder of Ayikai Doblo in the Ga West municipality of the Greater Accra Region, Nii Amoo Doodu, who is affectionately called Nii Azonto, TJ after successfully appealing a four-year conviction and imprisonment in August 2021.
Mr. Doodu was charged with the offense of fraudulently transacting land leases with unsuspecting parties contrary to Section 34(C) of the Land Registry Act 122/62.
The traditional head of the Ayikai Doblo area was accused to have sold plots of land to multiple buyers including the Member of Parliament (MP) for Komenda /Edina/ Eguafo/Abirem (KEEA), Mr. Samuel Atta-Mills, and a businesswoman based in the Western North region.
Following what he described as a miscarriage of justice by the Accra Circuit Court, his lawyers appealed the ruling, and in March 2022, got a reversal of the same by an Accra High Court which acquitted and discharged the leaders of Ayikai Doblo of any wrongdoing.
The High Court Judge, Justice Mary M.E Nsenkyire in her ruling stated that:
“The inconsistencies in the evidence of the prosecution as to the said person who demarcated the plots in issue granted same to the victim, received the purchase price, issuance of the documents covering the land is so glaring that this court cannot overlook same.”
The judge in a 25-page ruling noted: “One fact that comes out clearly from the evidence led by the prosecution is that there is not a scintilla of evidence on the record to support the assertion that it was the accused person who granted the said piece of land to the victim.”
She added: “The prosecution, therefore, failed to lead evidence to show that it was the accused person who made the grant of the plots in issue to the victim.
Having found that the prosecution failed to prove that the accused person made the first grant to the victim then the prosecution failed to prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. This ground of appeal succeeds.”
The judge rounded up her ruling by describing it as a failure, the prosecutor’s attempt to lead evidence to show that it was the accused person who made the grant of the plots in issue to the victim.
“The result is that the appeal succeeds and the same is upheld. I hereby set aside the conviction and ultimately the sentence imposed on the appellant herein. The appellant is accordingly acquitted and discharged."
Mr. Doodu and his team of lawyers who had described the initial conviction and sentencing as a miscarriage of justice, welcomed the acquittal by the High court saying “Justice has now been served.”
Addressing journalists in Accra over the weekend, Mr. Doodu commended his lawyers and the judge for serving his life and called on the media practitioners to give credence to any false publications since it is easy to destroy than to repair.
He was not happy about the media practitioners tagging him as the land-guard kingpin saying that is not a land guard, asking how come he is a person who legally sold lands to many individual personalities and organizations would turn to be tagged as a land guard.?
He pointed out that the media practitioners should do a proa proper background chechecketo people before they published a story about them in order not to land them into the grip of the law.
Do not just hear people's lies about others and quickly use your medium to publish such information without any background check. I am not a land-guards kingpin, l am an elder of Ayikai Doblo stool who has been given power of attorney by the chief of Akunmanjeng Divisional Area of Accra, Nii Ayikai III with the authority as caretaker of their lands under the Ayikai Doblo stool of Akunmanjeng Divisional Area.
He pointed out his enemies wanted him to be jailed for life, disclosing that while he is in jail, some self-seeking individuals had taken advantage of his absence to indiscriminately sell lands of the Ayikai Doblo to many innocent land developers without his consent and approval.
He stressed that those who bought such lands from these scrupulous individuals are in trouble.
He called on them to come and see him or the elders of Ayikai Doblo stool for regularization of their land documents else they would lose they be prevented not to developing their lands since they had not bought their land from the custodian owners of the Ayikai Doblo stool.
He used the occasion to deny the widespread allegations to the effect that "there was a court judgment that rubbishing his (Amo Dodoo's) 'power of attorney granted to him by the chief of Akunmanjeng Divisional Area of Accra, Nii Ayikai III which he' is using as the basis of his claim of authority as caretaker of their lands.
He stressed that this statement is completely and fat lies, saying that Nii Ayikai III with the effective consultation of his elders has nominated him, and presented him to the composite royal family of three that installs the chief at Ayikai Doblo.
He called on government and security institutions to come to their aid in stopping unscrupulous people from selling their lands to individuals and organizations.
