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The policewoman at the centre of the cocaine-turned-baking soda scandal, DSP Gifty Mawuenyegah Tehoda has been granted bail.
Mrs Mawuenyegah's lawyers have been fighting for bail for weeks now.
The Deputy Head of the Commercial Crimes Unit of the Police CID, DSP Gifty Mawuenyegah Tehoda, was remanded in custody by a circuit court last week on a new charge of promoting an enterprise relating to narcotic drugs.
The Bureau of National Investigations arrested Mrs Tehoda accusing her of playing significant roles that led to the swap of a cocaine exhibit.
Her lawyers applied to the Human Rights Court for bail, arguing she had been detained more the constitutionally stipulated period.
The court granted her bail but she was rearrested and rearrested and charged with abetment in connection with the scandal.
She was granted bail again after the trial judge, Justice Kwesi Essel-Mensah said the charges proffered against DSP Tehoda were alien to the laws of Ghana and, therefore, her continued detention could not be justified.
State prosecutors made a failed attempt to stop the bail.
Mrs Tehoda was rearrested again and a fresh charge of promoting an enterprise relating to narcotic drugs.
She is alleged to have connived with the prime suspect in the cocaine swap scandal and was re-arrested after having spent close to a month in BNI custody since her arrest in December.
Her lawyers however kept pressing for bail which they got this afternoon.
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