The New Crusading GUIDE trail of a case in which a juvenile court in Accra ordered four institutions-Comptroller of the Ghana Immigration Service, Director General of DOVVSU, and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) and the Social Welfare, to take steps to retrieve a minor in the custody of Ms Karen Baaba Sam, and also prevent her from traveling out of the country with the child has revealed further intrigues.
Last Tuesday, a team of policemen, National Investigative Berea (NIB) operatives and Social Welfare workers stormed the house of oil rich Albert Obimpe Abedi, a CEO of Stratcon Energy and Trading, on suspicion that Baaba Sam was hiding in his house with the minor when the child was supposed to be in school.
The operatives reportedly surrounded the whole house, leaving one patrol car in from while the rest entered the house to ask about the whereabouts of Baaba and the minor.
The team, worried about the game being played by Baaba in a child custody battle going on in court, even after the court granted custody to the father, secured an order from the court three days ago, praying the court to look at other judicial options in retrieving the kid but also applying sanctions, which the court obliged.
The directive follows temporary custody granted to Mr Kwadwo Adjei (father) over by the court, which Baaba Sam has flouted.
The story is that temporary care and custody were granted to the applicant (Kwadwo Adjei) with access granted to the respondent (Karen Baaba Sam) to be visiting the minor.
The child was in the care of the applicant pending the final determination of the suit when the mother went for the child to spend time with during the yuletide.
However, despite the due time for the child to be in school, Baaba Sam has blatantly defied the orders of the court and has unlawfully kept the child without clear and express orders from this court.
The Court therefore ordered the Ghana Police Service, CID Division, Headquarters, Accra last Tuesday to retrieve and prevent the respondent from traveling outside Accra with the child.
