A Controversial Awards Scheme Organiser, Kwame Owusu Fordjuor alias ‘Dr UN’ has been ordered to be taken to psychiatric hospital for Medical examination to be conducted by the Asokore Mampong district court presided over by Her Worship Portia Molly Sally.
The organizer of one of the country’s most controversial award schemes, Kwame Owusu Fordjuor has been granted bail at the amount of GHc 15, 000 with two sureties to be justified.
Kwame Owusu Fordjuor aka ‘Dr UN,’ was arrested at the premises of Kumasi-based radio station, Hello FM.
‘Dr. UN’ has been charged with four counts including defrauding by false pretences.
Presenting the facts Inspector Samuel Mensa disclosed the complainants in this case are renowned members of the society, directors of some institutions and also a district chief executive, all residing at different locations within the Kumasi Metropolis and its environs in the Ashanti region.
He further stated the accused a self styled coordinator of Global Public Service, a none legally existing Non Governmental Organisation (NGO) said to be the United Nations (UN) and working in Ghana.
According to the prosecutor Inspector Samuel Mensah during the months of July and August 2018, accused with the intent to defraud, went to the complainants with letters and memorandum to the effect that they won an award from the office of the United Nations Organisation in Ghana in collaboration with his NGO.
He added the accused went on to convinced the unsuspecting complainants that the said award named as ” The United Nations Gold Star Honour of Excellence Leadership Award ” was to be conferred on them by the UN at the Great Hall of the KNUST to be followed by a so called Red-carpet Dinner reception to be held in honour of the recipients and their followers who were to pay GHc 1, 000 each for the so called Red-carpet reception.
” My Lord convinced about this false representation, the complainants went ahead and paid different sum of money to the accused through his MTN mobile money account No 0543 99 41 24 and a CAL Bank Account Number 140000130529, both belonging to the accused” Inspector Samuel Mensa noted.
He told the court that on the 3rd day of August 2018, the complainants gathered at the Great Hall of the KNUST at 6:30 pm in anticipation of a memorable event.
” But after they had waited for more than three hours, complainants became agitated only to be informed that the program would no longer take place” he told the court.
Inspector Samuel Mensa stressed the complainants then began to demand for the money they had paid for the so-called Red-carpet Dinner reception.
According to the prosecution the accused failed to refund the money to the complainants hence a scuffle ensued and the Police were called where accused was arrested and handed over to the KNUST Police for necessary action and disclosed in his caution statement, the accused admitted having collected the various sums money from the complainants, but stated that due some circumstances beyond his control, the could not take place.
The organiser for the infamous ‘Global Blueprint Excellence Awards’ which has been described by many as a scam following revelations that it had no affiliation with the United Nations (UN) as he had touted, Kwame Owusu Fordjuor alias ‘Dr. UN’ through his counsel lawyer Kwame Adofo has told the court that all charges levelled against him will be contested.
Speaking to OTEC fm’s Isaac Nsiah Foster, Counsel for the accused person ‘Dr UN’, they vehemently defend the charges.
Lawyer Kwame Adofo stressed the burden is on the prosecution to prove with evidence until that his client remains innocent.
He therefore called on the all media to put a stop to all the allegations and media trials.
Sources say Dr UN was arrested in 2018 for a similar event held in the Ashanti Region which had been cited as fake.
He got arrested in the process and later granted bail.
In the months that followed, sources indicate he failed to show up in court anytime the case was called, an infringement for which the Asokore Mampong district court issued a warrant for his arrest.
But the latest incident which sparked uproar among Ghanaians seems to have flown in the face of his bail conditions.
The case has been adjourned to November 12, 2020.
Source: Thepressradio.com
