MATTHEW BANAHENE, landlord of Sarah Kwabla, the lady who is
alleging that she was raped and impregnated by Black Stars Captain
Asamoah Gyan has opened a can of worms said the lady and her mother
promised to pay him an amount of $20,000 if he could tell a lie to
support her rape allegations against the footballer.
Mr. Banahene told NEWS-ONE that his tenant, Sarah Kwabla first
contacted him with her mother to hatch the plot and when he refused to
cooperate, she returned again with Ekow Micah to have a second meeting
with him and assure that that the police had already been sorted out and
all they wanted was for him to go write a false statement that he heard
her screaming and yelling and struggling with Asamoah Gyan.
As has become characteristic of Sarah Kwabla, she neither picked
her phone calls nor replied to sms text messages NEWS-ONE sent to her
to get her respond to the allegations from her landlord.
Below are excerpts of the exclusive interview Matthew Banahene granted NEWS-ONE
How did this happen?
She came to me with her mother and another woman and they said I
should follow them to the police station to go and tell a lie against
Asamoah Gyan that I heard him raping Sarah and that she was shouting and
there was a struggle in her room. They begged me to tell the police
that when Asamoah Gyan came to the house, I heard Sarah shouting and
begging him not to rape her. I was shocked and advised them to stop the
nonsense but they insisted that if I could help them with the lie, they
would get an amount of $100,000.00 from Asamoah Gyan and that they would
give me 20 percent of the money which is $20,000. I did not agree but
she came back with Ekow Micah to beg me to help them nail Asamoah Gyan.
Why did you not agree?
“The truth is that I did not even see Asamoah Gyan the day he came
here and I did not hear her shout. I did not even know they had sex on
that day so what she and her mother were asking me to do was strange.
But I am not surprised. There was a time she did same thing to a certain
man who came to sleep in her room. Next morning, she accused the man of
rape and pregnancy and crated a big fight.
“I remember the man had to park his car in my house for three days
before he could come for it and when we asked him, he said she was
punishing him for consensual sex she had with him because she asked for
some big money he did not have.
What did you tell the mother?
I warned them to stop the nonsense and that I am not a greedy wicked thief but they did not agree. So I remember that on July 7
or so, Ekow Micah also called me and said we should meet at
Kokrobitey. We met at Big Milly’s. Sarah joined us and it was on the
same thing. Ekow said I should help them with a statement to the police
that I heard Sarah shouting rape, rape and that later I saw Asamoah Gyan
coming out of the room. I told him it can’t work and that I can’t
defend the lie if the case goes to court but Ekow insisted that he has
already done all police arrangements and that there was nothing to fear.
Did Ekow also promise you anything?
He said the same thing. Ekow said they would get $100,000 from
Asamoah Gyan and that they would give me $20,000. I believed him because
I have known him as her lover and everyone in our community knows about
their relationship. They are very popular. She is very troublesome and
has this tattoo of a vulture and a snake on her legs.
Why did you not report them to the police.
I have done that at the Regional Police headquarters. I have
already given them my statement. I did not report them the same day, but
I did later. They are very dangerous people and they seem to have a lot
of police connections so even if you report them, you won’t get far, I
have had several police cases with sarah Kwabla and Ekow Micah and the
case never gets anywhere.
Look even the day Ekow got arrested, Sarah Kwabla told me that she
would call the IGP personally and get him released immediately. But I
think because the media picked the story up and then there was a
narcotic charge involved, it was difficult. They really have some
connecting at the top.
Tell us about some of the cases.
There was one time, she brought police to my house that I had
stolen her phones from her room. I got arrested and during
investigations it became clear she only wanted to spoil my name because I
was asking them to pay me my overdue rent advance. Later, Ekow managed
to prove to the police that Sarah’s phone had not been stolen and that
the same phone chip she was using before the complaint of phone theft
was the same chip she was using.
When the police examined the chip, they realized she had not gone
for a sim card replacement although she claimed the chip got stolen
with the phone. But she was never arrested for deceit of public officers
and for spoiling my name. There are many instances where she walks away
free no matter what she does. Even though her rent has expired, I can’t
sack her.
When did the rent expire?
Oh they (Sarah and Ekow) rented this place for only a year and I
gave it to them for GHc400 a month. The contract was that I wanted two
years advance so that I could use the money to pay the person who
actually renovated the place but could not live there because her work
transferred her outside Accra. After three months, they started to fight
with me, accuse me of theft, from one police case to another. The one
year has expired and that have not given me a dime apart from the first
payment they did.
You rented out your two –bedroom self-contained apartment with CCTV installation for GHc400 per month?
There is no CCTV anywhere in my house. That report is false. Look,
when Sarah and her mother came to me to help them lie against Asamoah
Gyan, she said she used her lap top to record the sex and that she hid
the laptop somewhere in the room. Later I heard her lawyer say she used
CCTV. Till date, no one has seen the video. No police man, no lawyer,
no journalist, no one has seen it.
CHRONOLOGY SHEET
Lawyers for Asamoah Gyan first reported Sarah Kwabla to the Odorkor
Police station and claimed she was harassing the footballer and
threatening to publicly release a recording of a sexual intercourse she
had with her at her apartment.
Sarah denied the charge and told the sex was consensual and
resulted in a pregnancy. It was agreed by both parties that Asamoah Gyan
should take care of the pregnancy pending a paternity test to determine
whether or not he was responsible.
Sarah Kwabla’s lawyers received the first of payment from the Gyans
after a date for the paternity test had been agreed and part payment of
the coast paid by the Gyans.
Sarah Kwabla, on the day of the paternity test, did not turn up.
But rather went to the Ministry’s Police Station (DOVVSU) to lodge a new
case of rape and sodomy against the footballer, some five months after
the sex.
The Gyan camp latter reported to the Airport Police that a
journalist was attempting to use the story and supposed video to extort
money from them and had threatened to blackmail the footballer with the
said video unless he paid some money.
The police, in investigating the complaint caught the journalist
red handed while collecting the agreed blackmail fee from the Gyan camp.
Further investigations revealed there were several audio recordings
between Sarah Kwabla, Ekow Micah and the journalist on how to use the
story to milk the footballer.
Sarah Kwabla at this point claimed the pregnancy had suffered a
miscarriage. Ekow Micah also got into double trouble when police, while
investigating the extortion case, found on him a substance to be
narcotics.
NEWS-ONE would continue with transcripts of Matthew Banahene’s interview in our subsequent editions.
credit: NewsOne
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