20.01.2023 LISTEN
The court has remanded accused person, Patrick Asiedu, alias Dr Patrick Asiedu, an Uber driver into Police custody.
The accused was arraigned before the Court on 18 January, following his arrest on 17 January, 2023, in connection with a viral audio tape in which he made some false claims against some police officers.
He will reappear before the court on 31 January.
The police service, on Wednesday, 18 January 2023, arrested a man suspected to be the person in a viral audiotape describing an “alleged elaborate incident of criminal behaviour on the part of the police.”
The man is heard introducing himself as Dr Patrick Asiedu on the audiotape and claiming that he had been stopped by some police officers who planted substances suspected to be narcotics in his car and attempted to extort money from him.
The police, however, said its investigations, so far, “have established that the man, who has been arrested and is in police custody, is, indeed, called Patrick Asiedu” and an “Uber driver, not a doctor.”
The investigations, according to the police, “show that the entire story narrated on the audiotape, is false and a total fabrication by the suspect.”
“The supposed military intervention and the alleged fight between the police officers and the military described in such dramatic detail on the audiotape, are all false and a figment of the suspect's imagination,” the police said in a statement.
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