A businessman has been sentenced to 12 months in prison by an accra circuit court. Emmanuel kodjo narh married a nurse who lives in the united states while still legally married to his wife in ghana. Narh was cleared of the danger of harm by christina cann in the trial. The court noted that the defendant was able to prove the offense of bigamy, but that they were unable to prove the charge of danger.

 The accuser, whose name has been withheld, is a us nurse and a native of odumase krobo. While the complainant was in the united states, she received a call from her caretaker in ghana in june 2015 that a road was being built on her property. According to the prosecution, the caretaker then gave the complainant five phone numbers, including narh's, and gave him his own.

 According to the report, the complainant called the numbers and narh introduced himself and promised to address the issue on the property. The complainant and narh became friends, according to the prosecution, as a result of their interactions. Narh called the complainant on a daily basis to check

 on her.

 Narh proposed to the complainant in august 2015, but she said she would be traveling to ghana to speak with them because they didn't know themselves well and they hadn't met in person. On her arrival at the airport on october 26, 2015, the complainant met narh for the first time, according to the prosecution. Narh allegedly engaged the complainant with a ring on october 28, 2015, and took her to meet his family and some of his employees.


 Narh told the complainant that he had six children with two other women but was married to none of them, according to the prosecution. According to the report, the complainant told narh that she was also a divorcee. The accused returned to the states in november 2015, according to the prosecutors.


 Narh's family went to the complainant's family's house for the bridal list and performed the marriage rites in her absence, according to the report. According to the prosecution, the accused returned to ghana and went with narh to lower manya krobo municipal assembly, where the marriage was later recorded with the registration number lmkma/mc/2015/18. Narh and another woman's marriage certificate, according to the complaintant, was found to have the license number smc/028/09 on october 4, 2008.


 Narh confronted her after finding out about her affair and said she would not continue with the marriage. Because she had taken over her husband, the complainant's "rival" assaulted and threatened her on april 24, 2016. The case was reported to the police in odumase, and narh's other wife was arrested, according to the prosecution.


 Narh's witness statement, according to it, stated that the two women were his wives. According to the prosecution, the complainant returned to the united states and begged to end the fictitious marriage. Narh sent the complainant a threatening message on whatsapp on june 3, 2019, through his son's phone, which read: "we shall see, but this time, this is going to be a tribal war," he said.


 According to the report, the complainant contacted the director general of the criminal investigation department by her lawyer, and the matter was sent to the domestic violence and victims support unit at the police headquarters, accra. Narh was invited and pleaded his case, indicating that the marriage between him and the complainant was a "planned thing" to help her daughter obtain documents necessary to travel to the united states, according to the prosecution.