A key witness in the murder of late Adams Mahama, New Patriotic Party (NPP) Upper East Regional Chairman, Asigiri Quinn tells court on Monday that, speed rumps on the road made it impossible for him to calculate the time he spent to drive the deceased to the hospital.

According to the witness who drove the late NPP regional chairman and part of the few people who spent last minutes with the decased before gaving up his soul, he has challenges with figures, therefore, could not estimate how much time he used in traveling from the Bolga SSNIT Flats to the Bologa Regional Hospital.

It was his testimony during cross-examination conducted by lawyer Stephen Sowah Charway, counsel for Gregory Aforko, that the incident that happened on the night of May 20, 2015, he cannot recollect anything that has to do with time and measurement.

The witness, who also is a driver working with Social Security and National Investment Trust (SSNIT), indicated to the court he cannot tell the time that he got to the scene, the minuets it took him to get to the hospital, how long it took him to find a parking space, the number of nurses attending to the deceased, when the first visitors started coming, and even the number of late Adams’ family that joined them at the hospital.

Mr Quinn also indicated to the court presided over by Justice Merley Wood that the Bolgatanga Hospital allowed him and one Zuwera who accompanied him and the deceased to the emergency ward when the doctor and nurses were attending to him.

This, the lawyer asked him, “So Mr Quinn, you are telling this court that the doctor and the nurses allowed Madam Zuwera to interfere with the treatment of the deceased, is that what you are telling this court.”

Interestingly, the witness answered that “we were not interfering, we were only observing what was going on.”

Mr Quinn also made emphatic statement that the witness who crying and wailing in agony was able to sit up on the hospital bed to talk to first prosecution witness, Tofic whom they tried to reach but failed.

He said despite the failed attempt by him to reach Tofic whom the deceased wanted to speak to on phone, the latter, however, found his way to the hospital emergency ward.

Mr Quinn added that late Adams upon seeing Tofic in the emergency ward among other friend, neighbours and immediate family member, sat on his dying bed to mention the names of Gregory Afoko and Asabke Alandgdi, as the ones who came to him at his car and poured acid on him.

Case adjourned to day, December 15, 2020

By Dede Akutu Adimer