Whilst the Enquirer was on its long break, a pretty police female detective was lurking around the empty office looking for Raymond Archer. When she finally found him, she had a simple message ?sir, the crime officer at Tesano Police Station wants to see you.? Mr Archer said he thought he was going to get a big New Year scoop from the police. It turned out to be a really interesting scoop indeed!
A story Mr Raymond Archer was expecting to be published in a newspaper owned by a Deputy Minister of State since September 2005 was now beginning to unfold.
The police said they are investigating a case of stealing in which Mr Archer is involved. The case has to do with a claim that Mr Archer might have stolen ?2.4m or ?2.1m or probably ?1.8 in the year 2003.
Stealing in Ghana is a criminal offence which contravenes the Criminal Code. The complaint was filed by a certain Nana Prempeh on December 21, 2005, a man who had earlier spoken to two media houses to say that some officials of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) were trying to ?use ?him to destroy Mr Archer.
Unknown to Nana Prempeh, Mr Archer had received documentary intelligence back in September 2005 that there was a plot to twist this story to embarrass Mr Archer. Incidentally, the intelligence came one month before Nana Prempeh claims he arrived in Accra from the Netherlands. The written intelligence came from a media practitioner.
Nana Prempeh repeated this claim of politicians seeking the wholesale destruction of Archer?s integrity during a conversation with him on December 25, 2005, four days after he made the complaint of stealing to the police.
Nana Prempeh?s statement to the Police was that Mr Archer boarded a taxi in the year 2003, and found that a passenger had left ?2.8m in the taxi. That Mr Archer contrary to his promise of making a radio announcement for the owner of the money to come for it failed to do so and instead pocketed the money and gave ?400,000 to the driver to ?shut up?. Mr Archer has since given a statement to the police and is on a ?2m self recognizance bail.
Source: GhanaWeb
