rented, to show that it was possible that all these events described by him
could have happened in the Speed of Time.
The Time Factor destroys the Defendant’s explanations, because of the
Administrative Processes, the Financial Transactions, the Logistics of the
Journey and the Practicability of Execution, all of which needed to have
happened in ONE DAY.
Mr. Dennis Nev had positively stated that he handed over the Monies
collected to the Defendant as Governor and had nothing further to do with
the payments or the execution of the Tasks he had written out in the Memo.
According to him, the Money was taken to the Governor’s Office for
Designated Officers to carry out the responsibility of coordination.
During his evidence in Chief, he had backtracked from this Statement
claiming ignorance about the Designated Officers and Agencies. He admitted
that this was not the Normal Practice, but each Assignment has its own way
of tackling it.
He had used his discretion to arrive at the important areas, and allocated
suggested Funds to be used for each Item, however he did not know whether
the allocated Funds were actually used to meet the required Items.
The Defence Counsel, during his Cross-Examination, had unwittingly given
Mr. Nev the opportunity to explain away his Inconsistent Statement, when
they tendered through him, his Extra-Judicial Statement in ExhibitP2.
Further, this Statement helped to corroborate his Testimony before the
Court and gave him an added opportunity to clarify the mistakes he had
made in his Statement as to Dates, which would have been left standing, had
the Statement not been tendered. He was able to clarify the mistakes.
In this Statement, Mr. Dennis Nev, went into detailed recantation of how he
had given the Defendant the Monies. It is worthy of note that this Statement
is dated the 16th of June 2007, barely two months after the incident, when
the Memory of the occurrence would have been fresh in his mind. He had
stated that “...on the directive of my Boss-the Governor, Reverend Jolly Nyame
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