Man jailed 24 months for harassing public
with AK 47
Seventy-two-year-old man defiles girl, 12
Man jailed 24 months for harassing public
with AK 47
Accra (Greater Accra) 20 February 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Monday sentenced Stephen Lartey, alias Commando, to 24 months imprisonment with hard labour for harassing people with an AK 47 rifle.
Lartey, 25, unemployed, pleaded guilty to posing as a public officer, possessing firearm and military accoutrement, but pleaded not guilty to assault.
The tribunal chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah ordered that all military accoutrement in his possession should be sent to the armed forces.
In the dock with Lartey was Emmanuel Tei Ogum, a retired Major in the army. He pleaded not guilty to transferring firearm without authority.
The tribunal imposed a fine of 500,000 cedis on Ogum, who will go to prison for one month in hard labour, if he fails to pay the fine.
Police Chief Inspector Edward Antwi said in 1999 Lartey lived at the Burma Camp in Accra with Lance Corporal Kingsley Bampoe.
While there, Lartey socialised with military personnel and managed to acquire one military Joe singlet, three hats, a pair of boots and a kit bag.
The prosecution said in November last year, Lartey met Ogum who was heavily drunk at the Funky Broadway spot at Awoshie in Accra and introduced himself as a military man and, therefore, took Ogum to his house.
Lartey later visited the Ogun and found an AK 47 rifle in his bedroom, which he took, with the consent of the retired Major.
In January, Lartey dressed in camouflage trousers, military round-neck, shirt and boots, went to the Koforidua Police Training Depot where he drilled the recruits for not giving him the due courtesy on his arrival. On February 8, he was seen in his mother's house holding an AK 47 rifle.
A report was made to the police who arrested Lartey and when his room was searched, a rifle and military uniform were found. He mentioned Ogum as his source of the accoutrements.
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Seventy-two-year-old man defiles girl, 12
Accra (Greater Accra) 20 February 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Tuesday ordered the arrest of a 72-year-old man for failing to appear before it on a charge of defiling a 12-year-old girl.
The tribunal heard that investigations have revealed that the accused person, Issaka Chamba, alias Baba, a watchman, had been sending the victim to buy him cigarettes and gave her money for running the errand.
On November 28, 1999, Baba called her again and gave her 5,000 cedis. The girl's parents saw her holding the money and queried her.
She told them it was Chamba who gave her the money and also revealed that he defiled her and warned her not to tell anybody else it would be a police case.
The accused person was arrested and during interrogations admitted giving the victim money but denied defiling her.
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