Court grants Dumo Lulu Briggs’ demand for inquest into father’s death

The Kaneshie district court in Ghana has granted an application
filed by Dumo Lulu Brigg for an inquest into the death of his
father who was the founder and chairman of Moni Pulo Limited, an
oil exploration and production company.

In a ruling dated September 6 and seen by TheCable not
Nairalaw, E.K Barnes-Botchway, a magistrate, ordered that
an inquest be conducted on the deceased

It also ordered the Ghana police to make all processes and
documents in its custody available.

“Upon reading the affidavit of Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs of
Nigeria, the applicant herein filed on the 5th day of September ,
2019 in support of motion ex-parte for an order of inquest,” the
court held.

“And upon hearing Andrew Khartey led by Maame Tutua Temeng and
holding the brief of Nana Agyei Baffour Awuah’s brief herein in
person; It is hereby ordered that:

“An inquest should be conducted on the death of the deceased,
Chief Olu Benson Lulu-Briggs because I ordered for an autopsy to be
undertaken on the deceased following an application for post-mortem
by the Ghana Police Service (C.I.D Headquarters).

“The report is yet to be submitted since July 2019. With this
additional information to the one that forms the basis of the
police application, I have reasonable cause to believe that the
deceased did not die a natural death and I, therefore, deem an
inquest necessary and accordingly order for one to be done.

“The Ghana Police Service (C.I.D) is ordered to make available
to this court all processes and documents in their custody
including the autopsy report.”

The death of Lulu-Briggs on December 27, 2018, in Accra had
created controversy among his family members.

Seinye, his widow, who had travelled with him, was accused of
having a hand in his death.

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