Tehoda’s trial: 'My family cries at nights over the case' - Tehoda

Bel Tehoda, husband of the embattled Police CID boss, DSP Gifty Mawuenyega Tehoda, who is battling the Police Service in court for unlawful dismissal has revealed that he and his wife “have had to cry at nights on several occasions over the matter”.

“…Oh yes, sometimes she cries at night and me myself at times, I cry too”.

“But that is the reality, it is the law and and we have to go through the process,” he told STARR NEWS’ Wilberforce Asare after a court session on Thursday.

The former Deputy Commander of the Commercial Crime Unit of the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) was, in December 2011, arrested for her alleged role in the disappearance of some cocaine exhibits in the custody of the Police.

She was suspected to have had shady dealings with Nana Ama Martins, the main suspect at the centre of the cocaine-turned-sodium bicarbonate saga.

One other officer, Deputy Superintended of Police (DSP) Kofi Tudzra, the Commander in-charge of the Narcotic Unit of the Police Service, was also indicted in the matter. Only Tehoda was, however, taken to court.

She was subsequently dismissed from the Police Service before a Court cleared her of any wrongdoing in the matter. She has been fighting for her reinstatement ever since but to no avail.

Tehoda, therefore, sued the Police Service for unlawful dismissal. She has always maintained in past interviews with the media that she was sacrificed as a scapegoat in the case.