Flamboyant captain of the Ghanaian national team, Asamoah Gyan, has been accused of raping one Sarah Kwablah, who is one of four persons being tried for extortion.
Dr Maurice Ampaw speaking with journalists
Captain of Ghana's Black Stars national team, Asamoah Gyan, has been put on blast by outspoken legal practitioner, Dr. Maurice Ampaw, over an allegation of rape.
According to him, Asamoah Gyan 'pounced' on 21-year old Sarah Kwablah, one of the four persons being tried for allegedly extorting GH¢25,000 from one Sam Anim Addo by means of threat.
The lawyer who was cross-examining Anim, manager of Asamoah Gyan, said the striker forcefully had carnal knowledge of Sarah when he (Asamoah) had not proposed love to her.
Sarah and two others namely; Osafo Anthony, 29, journalist and Chris Handler, a blogger, have been variously charged for conspiring to extort money from Anim while popular reggae musician, Lester Ekow Micah, 43, has been slapped with the charge of abetment.
Hearing of the case continued on Monday in a court presided over by Afia Agbanu Kumador.
Dr Ampaw, counsel for Sarah as well as the other accused persons, also accused Asamoah Gyan of having anal sex with Sarah.
Although the lawyer insisted that his client got pregnant for Asamoah Gyan, which he claimed was aborted with the assistance of Anim, he stated that the pregnancy was aborted based on a promise by the captain of the Black Stars.
He maintained that Gyan told Sarah to abort the said pregnancy in "exchange for any amount of money," and further alleged that Gyan also promised to give Sarah any amount of money if she did not make public the fact that he had anal sex with her.
Anim, on his part, denied the allegations Ampaw levelled against Gyan, including the allegation that he (Anim) took Sarah to a quack doctor to abort the pregnancy.
Anim Addo had earlier told the court in his evidence that the accused persons had threatened Gyan with evidence of text messages to defame him and subsequently follow it with a publication of a sex video, as a result, demanded GH¢30,000 and threatened to publish more stories if the money was not paid.
Sitting continues on December 10, 2015.