Police Paid To Destroy Mzbell’s Marriage

Reports reaching The Herald indicate that the bizarre incident that led to popular Ghanaian songstress, Belinda Nana Ekua Amoah, alias Mzbel and two young men – Maxwell Mensah and Emmanuel Edem Nordzor – finding themselves behind police bars last weekend, was a set-up to frustrate and break up an impending marriage between Mzbel and one of the young men.

The man, Emmanuel Edem Nordzor, is said to be passionately in love with Mzbel, and was arranging to take her to the altar. However, his mother, said to be very wealthy and having a strong influence over him, is in disapproval of Mzbel as a choice of wife for her son, a family source told The Herald.

Nordzor’s mother is said to have warned her son of the relationship, promising to do everything to bring the planned marriage to an end, and last Saturday, she resorted to using a police officer to scatter the marriage.

Interestingly, the police officer who was allegedly assaulted by the diminutive celebrity, leading to her arrest, has since gone missing, and sources say that he had not shown up in court since the three were arraigned before Mr. Emmanuel Plange Brew, at the Motor Traffic Court.

Mzbel’s manager, Ms. Irene Nana Abba Asante of Blossom Events and Productions, admitted to The Herald yesterday that there is a raging family feud but refused to go into detail.

Ms. Asante described the 32-year-old songstress as a very organized and respectful person, a philanthropist and law-abiding citizen, whose true personality has been misjudged by many, adding that one ought to get closer to her to appreciate the fine gem in her.

She called for an end to her misrepresentation and the troubles attributed to her, to allow her blossom.

Police sources at the MTTU told The Herald that amongst the people who called to explain the true situation to the police were the Deputy Minister of Interior, Mr. Kobby Achemapong, Togbui Afede, the overlord of the Asogli State, among other senior police officers.

UT Financial Services owner, Captain Prince Kofi Amoabeng, is said to be one of the persons who went to an extent of recruiting one of three lawyers, including Lawyer Addo Atua, to defend Mzbel. Togbui Afede, is said to have sent another lawyer to rescue the celebrity.

The Herald has it that Nordzor’s mother, fed up with her son’s determination to continue with the relationship, sought the help of a family friend who is a policeman, for a scheme to publicly embarrass Mzbel.

Unfortunately for the songstress, last Saturday presented an opportunity for the policeman to execute his assignment. The report says that as soon as the policeman spotted the Mitsubishi Four Wheel Drive with registration number GR 9470 – 11 that Mzbel, Nordzor and Mensah were using, parked at Tudu, almost in the center of Accra, he walked menacingly towards it.

Nordzor, realizing that what was due to befall him, would be embarrassing, quickly took over the steering wheel from Mensah, who was behind it, and tried to drive away to avoid his would-be bride from humiliation.

But that was too late in the day for him, as the desperate policeman, realizing that his yelling for Nordzor to stop failed, threw himself on the bonnet of the vehicle.

In spite of this, Nordzor drove on until he was crossed by another vehicle, and had to stop.

Meanwhile, frightened by what was happening, Mzbel became hysterical, got down, and started wailing.

Consequently, they were taken to the Greater Accra MTTU Office where they were remanded in police cells, charged for assaulting a police officer.

Desperate attempts by many people to have them bailed failed, as the MTTU boss, ACP Augwubutoge Awuni, would not bulge.

Mzbel, her lover and friend were released on Sunday, June 5, 2011 on police enquiry bail and asked to report the next day. When they reported, they were sent to the District Magistrate’s Court charged with various offences to which they pleaded not guilty. They were again remanded in police custody.

However, on Wednesday, June 8, 2011, Anthony Namoa, lawyer for the trio, managed to secure bail for them which was granted by Justice Uuter Paul Dery, sitting as a High Court Judge (Human Rights Division).

In granting the trio bail, Justice Dery observed that “the remand by the District Court, in the circumstances was unnecessary”.

He said after the investigations, the trio were charged, to which they pleaded not guilty, and it was left to the state to prove them guilty as required by law.

“In my view”, Justice Dery said, “the remand of the applicants was only used as a punishment contrary to the injunction in section 96(4) of the Criminal Offences Act 1960 (act 29), which condemns such an action”.

According to him, “ The said section states thus: ‘A court shall not withhold or withdraw bail merely as a punishment,” adding that, “In this case, the District Court, indeed withheld bail for the applicants as a punishment, which is a wrongful exercise of its discretion to grant or refuse bail under Section 96(1) of Act 29”.

“Accordingly”, Justice Dery stated, “I release each of the applicants on bail in the sum of GH¢2,000.00 with one surety”. Mzbel’s life has witnessed some rather intriguing incidents, including allegations of being robbed and raped by armed robbers and being sexually assaulted by some male students at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, (KNSUT) as well as her showbiz career and controversies.

Mzbel is the last born of seven children. She started her music career in 2002, from Hush Hush studios where she worked in the studio, and occasionally sang as a backup artiste until luck fell on her laps, and some of her songs were selected for recording.

Her first album, ‘Awosome’, was recorded in 2004. ‘16 Years’ is about her greatest hit song.

Before her music career, Mzbel worked with various institutions, including GBC Radio 1, where she hosted a children’s programme, Groove FM (now Adom FM) and at TV3 as a production assistant for one of the station’s youth shows known as Goldblast (now Music Music).

In 2006, she was reported to have been robbed and sexually assaulted by three armed robbers who broke into her rented apartment at New Gbawe on the outskirts of Accra

Reports say that the robbers also took away $900, £500, two DVD players, a CD and a cassette player, a digital video camera, an Ephson Laptop, jewellery, clothes and five mobile phones from the victim.

“They locked us up and left for some time, apparently to search the house. We heard them opening drawers and wardrobes…they did so many bad things to us in the house,” Mzbel told journalists hours after the attack.

A Nigerian guy she was going out with shortly after this incident broke the relationship, although plans were far advanced for them to marry.