GRi in Court Ghana 07 - 02 - 2001
Five persons remanded for robbery
Accra (Greater Accra) 07 February
2001
An Accra circuit tribunal on
Tuesday fined a 35 year-old man one million cedis for posing as a lawyer.
Ramseyer Hayford Awuku, who went
by the name Eric Yaw Asiedu, pleaded guilty to impersonation, deceit of public
officer and fraud. He will serve 12 months in prison if he fails to pay the
fine.
The tribunal, chaired by Mrs.
Anderson Yeboah, ordered him to refund all monies he had collected from people.
The court heard that since 1994
Awuku had been posing as a lawyer and practising mostly at Nsawam, Nkawkaw,
Asamankese, Kumasi and the Accra Community Tribunals.
The prosecution said on June 7
last year, the accused followed up a stealing case to the CID Headquarters to
request for bail for a suspect.
While he was negotiating for the
bail, the complainant in the case, a lawyer, alerted the police that the
accused was an impersonator who had defied earlier warnings not to hold himself
as a legal practitioner.
The prosecution said during the
initial investigations, Awuku maintained that he was a lawyer with the Internal
Revenue Service (IRS) but later admitted being an impostor.
It said the accused defrauded a
woman, Vida Commey at the James Town community tribunal of 300,000 cedis under
the pretext of defending her brother who was involved in a narcotic case and
early last year he petitioned the Commissioner of Police (CID) that he was a
lawyer and a solicitor advocate at the Supreme Court.
Legal documents found on the
accused at the time of his arrest were fictitious, the prosecution said.
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Five persons remanded for robbery
Accra (Greater Accra) 07 February 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Tuesday, remanded in prison custody, five persons who broke into a pharmacy shop at New Achimota and stole 3.1 million cedis and three mobile phones worth three million cedis.
Ibrahim Gariba, apprentice fitter, Enoch Kofi, unemployed; Abubakari Ali, refrigerator mechanic, Ali Shaibu Jara, a secretary and Emmanuel Abrokwa, a driver, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and robbery.
They will appear again on February 21.
Prosecuting, Deputy Superintendent of Police Elizabeth Allandu told the tribunal chaired by Mr. Mohammed Nabon that on November 4 last year, the accused persons and three others now at large raided the shop attacked the sales girl and made away with the money and phones.
DSP Allandu said the accused armed with pistols, cutlasses and cudgels again attacked a customer from whom they took 220,000 cedis and sped off in a waiting taxi.
She said the customer quickly went out and solicited the assistance of a Good Samaritan near the shop who used his private car to pursue the thieves.
On their arrest one of the mobile phones was found on Jara.
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Sekondi (Western Region) 07
February 2001
Three men on Tuesday appeared
before a High Court at Sekondi charged with murder.
Collins Atubu, George Asare and
Enoch Asomani all unemployed, pleaded not guilty to two counts of conspiracy
and murder.
Miss Voraline Amate, a Principal
State Attorney, prosecuting, said on October 19, 1997, Mr Gershon Awutey,
Manager of the Animens Hotel at Takoradi, heard an unusual noise from an
uncompleted building near the Hotel.
She said Mr Awutey rushed to the
spot where he saw a man whose name was given as JoJo lying on the ground with a
rope tied around his neck and hands.
The prosecutor said Mr Awutey
reported the matter to the Police, who took Jojo to the hospital where he died
soon on admission. The three were later arrested.
Miss Amate said the prosecution
will lead evidence to show that the three accused persons tied up Jojo and
severely beat him for allegedly stealing a pair of trousers belonging to Asare,
resulting in his death.
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