Missing Lands Commissioner trial: Husband granted GH¢300,000 bail

The Kumasi High Court has granted bail, in the sum of GH¢300,000 to Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey, a senior lecturer at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), accused of his alleged involvement in the disappearance of his wife, Rhodaline Amoah-Darko. 

This comes after lawyers completed cross-examination of three teaching assistants who mounted the witness box and testified to the matter.

In their testimonies to the court, they stated that the accused's children spent the night with them at their hostels and not as the accused had said in his statement to the police. 

In his statement, Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey told the police he slept in the house with his children and the teaching assistants on the day his wife disappeared.

The accused, who until this time had been on remand is facing charges of kidnapping and deception of a public officer. His standing trial with two others - Yaw Boateng and Justice Appiah, who were found to have had in possession Rhodaline’s phone. 

When Dr. Wilberforce Aggrey was first remanded in November 2021, police stated that communication from his wife's mobile device, alleged to have been from kidnappers demanding a ransom, came from a cell tower close to the KNUST campus home of the accused.

Rhodaline Amoah-Darko, a Senior Lands Administrative Officer at the Lands Commission’s office in Kumasi, is yet to be found. She has been missing since August 30, 2021.

The case has meanwhile been adjourned to October 17, 2022.