PBC Purchasing
Clerks charged with stealing 94 million cedis
Tribunal remands self-styled nurse in prison
custody
PBC Purchasing
Clerks charged with stealing 94 million cedis
Tarkwa (Weatern Region) 30 April
2001
A circuit court at Tarkwa, on
Friday issued a bench warrant for John Mensah, a Purchasing Clerk of the
Produce Buying Company (PBC) for stealing 400 bags of cocoa and sacks valued at
94 million cedis.
In the dock was Phillip Gyebi,
also a Purchasing Clerk of the PBC charged with the same offence.
Another accomplice, Ransford
Gyamfi, Wassa West District Manager of the Federated Commodities Limited (FEDCO),
a private cocoa purchasing company, was also put before the court, charged with
dishonestly receiving 400 bags of cocoa valued at 87 million cedis.
Gyebi and Gyamfi pleaded not
guilty and each was granted a 50-million-cedi bail with one surety to re-appear
on May eight.
The court presided over by Mr
Isaac Lartey-Young again issued a bench warrant, for Eric Essah, a carpenter at
Aboso for obstructing the police in the performance of their duty.
The Court heard that Mr. Prosper
Zeglah is the Wassa West district Manager of PBC while Mensah and Gyebi were
stationed at Atwereboanda and Asikuma-Kabu near Tarkwa respectively.
In January, this year, Mr Zegblah
pre-financed Mensah with 297 million cedis together with 1,194 empty sacks to
purchase 1,372 bags of cocoa.
The prosecution said on February
1, this year, Mensah submitted documents to the complainant indicating that the
number of bags of cocoa mentioned above had been purchased.
Investigations showed that Mensah
sent 750 bags of cocoa to the complainant, leaving 622 bags.
On February 2, this year, when Mr.
Zeglah was about to convey the remaining bags, Mensah absconded.
The prosecution said a witness in
the case, informed Mr. Zeglah that three vehicles including a truck belonging
to the FEDCO, had conveyed some bags of cocoa to a FEDCO's depot at Aboso.
Investigations showed that Mensah
and Gyebi sold 400 bags of cocoa to Gyamfi.
While the police were helping in
the collection of the bags of cocoa after retrieving 312 from FEDCO's depot,
Essah assisted Gyamfi to prevent the police from doing so.
Meanwhile, the remaining bags are
still at the depot at Aboso.
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Tribunal remands self-styled nurse in
prison custody
Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 30 April 2001
A 41-year-old self-styled nurse, Agnes Opoku-Agyeman, who was arrested by the Police for allegedly practising medicine without authority was on Friday remanded in prison custody by a Kumasi Circuit Tribunal to re-appear on May 2.
She pleaded not guilty.
The tribunal, chaired by Justice Ernest Yao Obimpeh, refused her bail on the grounds that the prosecution needed time to complete its investigations.
The tribunal heard that at about 09:00 hours, on April 26, Ministry of Health personnel, who were carrying out polio immunisation exercise at the Central Market arrested the accused for injecting people against Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis (CSM) for a fee of 2,000 cedis each.
When the accused was questioned, she claimed to be a nurse but said no one authorised her to practise at the market.
The accused was arrested with syringes and needles and 407,000 cedis and when she was sent to the Regional Police CID, she told the police that she is a state registered nurse at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) having passed out in 1978.
Accused said someone she could not identify sold the vaccine to her for 300,000 cedis, the prosecution added.
The prosecution said the accused had already injected 600 people at the time of her arrest.
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