The trial of Amina Mohammed in the controversial armed robbery cum mass rape saga alleged on an Accra-Tamale bound vehicle has taken an interesting twist. Prosecution witness Michael Frimpong on Friday testified before a Circuit Court that two defence lawyers, Prof Ken Attafuah and Appiah Kubi and four others including the NPP chairman Jake Obetsebi Lamptey contracted him to substantiate the story of armed robbery and mass rape incident said to have happened on a Yutong bus on October 11, 2010. Michael Frimpong, initially a suspect in the case, was testifying as a prosecution witness in the case in which, the main suspect, Amina Mohammed, a hairdresser, has pleaded not guilty to charges of publication of false news with intent to cause fear and panic and deceit of public officer. Amina had claimed to be a passenger aboard the bus when the alleged robbery and forced sex among passengers occurred. The story was initially corroborated by Michael Frimpong who also claimed to have been on the bus and was made to have sex with one of the female passengers. The story caused a major stir in the country with President John Mills ordering an investigation into the matter, leading to the arrest and prosecution of the suspect. In court on Friday, Frimpong appeared on the side of the prosecution with a testimony that he was contracted by six persons, including Kennedy Agyapong, MP for Assin North; Adakabre Frimpong Manso, host of Adom FM’s morning show; and Yaw Osafo Maafo, former Finance Minister to corroborate Amina Mohammed's allegations. He claimed he was promised an amount of GHS90,000, to do that job. But lead defence counsel Prof Ken Attafuah said what happened in court on Friday was a sad commentary for Ghana’s jurisprudence. Speaking on Asempa FM, the lawyer described the testimony as a complete fabrication and accused the prosecution of masterminding the act. He suspects the prosecution has either induced or entered into a plea bargaining agreement with the witness to cook-up the testimony. According to him, he met the witness on the day he had secured bail for Amina and he (Frimpong) confessed to have been one of the passengers aboard the Yutong bus. He said when he questioned Frimpong he was not impressed with the answers given and was convinced that he was a fraudster. Attafuah said he had a call several weeks later from the same man who claimed to have been tortured by the police over the same matter and was languishing in cells. He said he instructed his colleague-Appiah Kubi to secure bail for him purely on humanitarian grounds and his belief in human rights and civil liberties. He is astonished that the same person will now turn round and cook-up such a story against him. He is even more dumbfounded that the prosecution/state will use "communist inferior tactics" to win the case. He denied ever having any conversation with the alleged conspirers, insisting he has never met Osafo Maafo, or Kennedy Agyapong but said he had shook hands with Jake Obetsebi Lamptey at a funeral a fortnight ago. Until that meeting at the funeral, he had never met the NPP chairman in person before. “We only know each other in the public realm,” he said, swearing, he has never in his life gone to the NPP headquarters where the plot was said to have been hatched. He said there is no foundation to the testimony given by Frimpong. “I am saddened that in this Republic of ours [we have a state] that is becoming an exceptional case in the extent to which it becomes vindictive and punitive. “I am really saddened, [they are] seeking to win by fair or foul means a simple misdemeanor case.” He said even if Amina told a lie, the state had no point to “bend over backwards to use mechanisms that are simply unwholesome to win a simple misdemeanor case.” "What point in this Republic are we trying to create?" “We live in unfortunate times; we’re trying to create an exceptional state, a state that is punitive and vindictive, malicious and not committed to the advancement and principles of justice and fairness and therefore will bend so low to use such communist inferior tactics in order to win a simple misdemeanor case," he lamented. He is confident that during cross examination Frimpong will turn out a discredited witness. Kennedy Agyapong, Appiah Kubi, and Adakabre Frimpong Manso have all denied being part of such a fabrication. Play the attached audio for excerpts of the interview. Story by Nathan Gadugah/Myjoyonline.com/Ghana