Contractor before tribunal for defrauding student
Convict jailed for causing harm
Three Nigerians remanded for robbery
Contractor before tribunal for defrauding student
Accra (Greater Accra) 16 January 2001
Anim Boateng, a contractor who defrauded a student of 4,000 US dollars under the pretext of securing a US visa for him, on Monday appeared before a circuit tribunal in Accra.
Anim, who pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretence, was granted a 30 million- cedi bail with one surety to be justified in the form of landed property. He will appear again on January 30.
The tribunal chaired by Mr. Mohammed Nabon heard that in June 1999, Anim promised the complainant, Johnny Ofori that he could assist him to acquire a US visa.
He asked Ofori to pay 4,000 dollars to enable him process the necessary documents.
The prosecutor said Anim absconded after collecting the money until October last year when an aunt of Ofori's spotted him at Adabraka and reported to the police.
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Convict jailed for causing harm
Accra (Greater Accra) 16 January 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Monday sentenced a convict, Yaw Senyo to two years imprisonment with hard labour for slashing a fellow prisoner, Ishmael Tetteh Akwandah, on his head with a cutlass.
Senyo, charged with causing harm, pleaded guilty but the tribunal entered a plea of not guilty after he explained that Akwandah accused him of smuggling Indian hemp into prison.
This resulted in a fight between them during which the accused said Akwandah wounded him and he decided to retaliate by slashing him. Police Inspector Anneh Kwame, prosecuting, told the tribunal chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yeboah that Akwandah and Senyo are both convicts at the James Camp prisons at Maamobi, in Accra.
On December 19, last year, Akwandah accused Senyo of smuggling Indian hemp and this resulted in a fight in which Senyo got wounded. Senyo picked a cutlass and slashed Akwandah on his head.
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Three Nigerians remanded for robbery
Accra (Greater Accra) 16 January 2001
Three Nigerians who robbed a road contractor and made away with cash and items worth several millions of cedis at Tuba Junction on the Accra-Kasoa Road, have been remanded in prison custody by an Accra Circuit Tribunal.
Prosper Nnaji Oreka, 22, Paul Okeosisi, 38 and Emeka Chidi, 25, who pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and robbery will reappear on January 29.
Chief Inspector Edward Antwi told the tribunal, chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah that on November 29 last year, the complainant was awaken at night by an unusual noise in his house and found to his dismay that his house was under siege by six armed robbers. The robbers tied the watchman and placed him under guard.
Chief Inspector Antwi said the robbers broke into all the rooms whilst shooting indiscriminately. In the process, the complainant's brother, Mr Zhan Xin, a Chinese engineer, was shot in the left leg and their father was beaten severely.
According to the prosecutor, the robbers made away with 19.5 million cedis, 11,300 US dollars, 1,000 Yuan, a gun and six rounds of ammunition, a wristwatch, DSTV deck controller and some electrical appliances.
The robbers finally fled with the complainant's Mercedes Benz car but abandoned it at Kasoa.
On December 22 last year, the 'Daily Graphic' reported the arrest of three armed robbers who snatched a taxicab from a driver at Nsawam and later used it to rob others.
After the publication the complainant identified Oreka, Okeosisi and Chidi as those who attacked him.
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