I AINT ALIAR SAYS COP

GENERAL Sergeant David Nyarko, one of the three policemen being tried for allegedly aiding the fugitive, Sheriff Asem Dakeh, to abscond with 2,280 kilogrammes of cocaine today denied that he was a liar.
Rather, he blamed a police investigator for the inconsistencies in his evidence in court and his statement to the police.
According to him, the police investigator attributed certain statements to him without his consent and he became aware of the inconsistencies in court.
Sgt Nyarko was continuing his evidence under cross-examination by Mrs Stella Badu, a Senior State Attorney.
Sgt Nyarko is standing trial with General Lance Corporal Dwamena Yabson and General Lance Corporal Peter Bondorin.
A fourth accomplice, Detective Sergeant Samuel Yaw Amoah, is on the run.
The accused persons are alleged to have received an unspecified amount in dollars from the fugitive cocaine owner and allowed him to flee.
They have been charged with two counts of engaging in prohibited business relating to narcotic drugs and corruption by a public officer and have pleaded not guilty to both counts.
The accused person spoke Twi which was translated into English.
He explained that those statements attributed to him were made by Sgt Amoah and were put to him as questions by the investigator so he did not know that they were included in his statement.
Sgt Nyarko said the two statements he gave to the police after his arrest were written by the investigator and since the handwriting was not legible he asked that the statements be read to him but the investigator told him that it was what he told him that had been put down.
Mrs Badu suggested to the accused person that he was not being truthful to the court because in his evidence-in-chief he indicated that on April 26, 2006, he closed from duty at the Dangme Rural Bank at Tema New Town at about 5.45 a.m. but in a statement to the police on September 3 and 11, 2006, he did say that he closed from duty at 5 a.m..
Sgt Nyarko replied that he stood by his evidence in court and explaining the inconsistencies, he said that in the Police Service there were occasions that time was adjusted.
Sgt Nyarko denied ever going to the house of Sheriff in a Toyota Land Cruiser that belonged to Sheriff.
He maintained that he did not receive any money from the Kpone operation and that the Opel Astra taxi that he bought was a family property, which he together with his siblings decided should be registered in his name since he was the eldest.