Traders file motion against High Court Registrar
Cape Coast (Central Region) 29 August 2001 - A Cape Coast Circuit Court on Tuesday directed the police to prefer charges against five final year students of the Adisadel College before it.
The judge, Tom Bentil said the current charges do not correspond to the facts of the matter since only two of the suspects broke into the armoury to steal ammunition.
They have been provisionally charged for unlawful entry and stealing 82 packets of 'thunder shot' cartridges from the Central Regional Police Armoury, on June 23 this year.
The students are Kwaw Afebi-Yanney, Donald Abili, Selikem Ahiadzro and two others John Aboagye-Gyimah and Stephen Atsu Kudoto, who broke into the armoury and stole the cartridges.
The two handed over the ammunition to Afebi-Yanney and Abili and they travelled to Sunyani and lodged at the Providence hotel in a bid to find prospective buyers.
Upon a tip-off, the police in Sunyani arrested Afebi-Yanney and Abili at the hotel, but Aboagye-Gyimah and Kudoto managed to escape. A search in their hotel room led to the discovery of the cartridges and 350,000 cedis.
The two boys were handed over to the Cape Coast and they mentioned the other three as accomplices. Kudoto, Afebi-Yanney, Abili and Ahiadzro were appearing for the third time, while Aboagye-Gyimah who had been on the run until his mother handed him over to the police on July 18, was making his second appearance.
They are all on five million cedis bail each and would re-appear on Tuesday September 11. Earlier, the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Augustine Amonoo, had pleaded with the court to adjourn the case to enable the police to complete with their investigations.
He explained that the accused persons failed to report to the Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) office on August 24, as directed by the court on the last adjourned date. They also failed to report daily to their Housemaster at 7 am and 6 p.m. since they were on indefinite suspension.
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Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 29 August 2001 – The Kejetia Traders Association ("Mighty 18") has filed a motion at a Kumasi High Court for an order to compel the registrar of the High Court to release the keys of 34 stores at North Suntreso to the association.
An accompanying affidavit in support of the motion said in July 2001, Justice G.M. Quaye, having dismissed an application filed by Agyenim Boateng, Andrews Manu and others, occupants of the North Suntreso stores, set aside the writ of possession.
The motion, filed by the association's chairman, Nana Samuel Boateng, said the court then mandated the chief registrar to distribute the stores after authenticating the various receipts issued to members of the Plaintiff's association and that of Agyenim Boateng, Manu and others in respect of contributions made by each claimant.
The affidavit said the registrar has since failed to carry out the order and has informed the trial judge to that effect.
It asked the court to allow the judgement to stand and the dismissed application made to operate with all the legal effects it carries and to order the registrar to hand over the keys to the various stores to the applicant for the execution of the writ of possession.
It said the order authorising the registrar of the high court to distribute the stores despite the judgement, has caused the association great substantial miscarriage of justice.
The consequential order made by the court, the affidavit said, was inconsistent with and contravenes the order dismissing the applicant's motion.
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