Driver trainee remanded over death of Policeman
Tribunal grants bail to convict
Accra (Greater Accra) 30 August 2001 - The Osu Community Tribunal on Wednesday remanded into prison custody two persons in connection with the death of Police Constable Richard Osei Asibey Bonsu on Tuesday.
The two, Felicia Ababio, 19 and Kofi Arhin, were charged with unlicensed driving and negligently causing harm. The accused persons, plea was not taken. They will reappear on September 5.
Constable Bonsu was killed instantly at the Police Striking Force Unit Headquarters in the early hours of Tuesday when a bus, driven by Ababio ran over him while he was asleep at the courtyard.
Ababio, alias Kooyo, was being taught to drive by Arhin, her boyfriend, when the accident occurred. George Agyekum Nana Donkor, Chairman of the Tribunal dismissed an application for bail for the accused by the defence, saying that in such circumstances, "It is in the interest of the accused to be kept somewhere for their own safety."
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Accra (Greater Accra) 30 August 2001 - An Accra Regional Tribunal on Wednesday granted an application for bail for a former employee of the Ghana Water Company (GWC) currently serving a four-and-half-year jail term.
The three-member tribunal, chaired by Justice Adu Gyamfi, granted George Ahele, a former senior revenue assistant of GWC, a six million-cedi bail with a surety.
The tribunal ordered him to report regularly to the police until the final determination of an appeal he had filed against his conviction.
On June 13 this year, an Accra Circuit Tribunal jailed Ahele for stealing and forgery, but deferred reasons for the ruling to a later date. His Counsel, Casmir Komla Ahele applied for bail on behalf of the accused on June 26 pending the hearing of an appeal against the lower court's ruling.
Granting the application, the tribunal upheld counsel's submission that since the trial judge had not yet given his reasons for the ruling, hearing of the appeal might be unreasonably delayed.
In the circumstances, the tribunal held that in refusing the application, the applicant's fundamental human rights might be violated.
Between January and December of 1997, Ahele was alleged to have dishonestly appropriated 40 million cedis belonging to the then Ghana Water and Sewerage
Corporation.
He was also said to have forged and falsified receipts and bill stubs, and suppressed the company's revenue to the tune of 13.1 million cedis.
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