OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Friday 7.30pm.
GHANA’S First Lady, Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings, has denied allegations in an Accra circuit court that she has a bank account worth $18-million in Switzerland.
Defence counsel Akoto Ampaw was cross-examining Rawlings in a case in which Eben Quarcoo, former editor of the Free Press and Tommy Thompson Books Limited, publishers of the paper, are being tried for publishing that Rawlings was involced in narcotics and gold smuggling.
Rawlings, who was in the witness box for the third time, also disagreed with a suggestion that she has owns property in Switzerland, or that her sister, Sefa, runs a jewellery shop in Switzerland and owns property there on her behalf.
Rawlings admitted that between 1982 to 1994 she made a number of official trips to Switzerland where she attended meetings of the World Health Organisation. None of the trips made was private, she added.
Asked whether she carried gold ornaments whenever she travelled abroad, she said that she wore fashion jewellery, such as earrings, necklaces and rings but never carried gold ornaments.