GRi in Court Ghana 24 - 01 - 2001
Taskforce impounds vehicles engaged in fuel smuggling
Accra (Greater Accra) 24 Jan. 2001
Daniel Okai Quaye, a priest of a
shrine, on Monday appeared before an Accra circuit tribunal charged with
stealing a car he claimed he would be able to protect from evil spirits.
The prosecution said Quaye asked
the owner to deposit the car at his shrine for 21 days for some rituals to be
performed on it but he stole it. Quaye, who pleaded not guilty, was granted 10
million cedis bail with one surety to reappear on February 6.
The tribunal, chaired by Mr Ziblim
Moru ordered Quaye to report to the Pokuase Police every Monday.
According to the prosecution, the
complainant, Mr Amos Abbey Quaye, is a retired civil servant who used a portion
of his retirement benefits to buy a second-hand Datsun at five million cedis.
In February 1996,the accused asked
the driver of the car to inform his master to see him at his shrine. When Mr
Abbey Quaye went, he told him that his gods had revealed that some evil spirits
were driving his car in the night and it would be involved in an accident.
He therefore advised Mr Abbey
Quaye to deposit the car at the shrine for 21 days to enable him perform some
rituals on it. Mr Abbey Quaye scared by the revelation, obliged.
The prosecution said a few days
after, Mr Abbey Quaye became sick and was sent to a village in the Western
Region for treatment for about three years.
On his return to Accra, he went to
the accused person's shrine at Korle Gonno to collect his taxi but to his
dismay Quaye had left the place.
When Quaye was later traced to
Akraman village near Amasaman, he said the car was stolen when thieves invaded his
shrine.
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Mason jailed for causing unlawful harm
Accra (Greater Accra) 24 January 2001
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Tuesday sentenced Odartey Lawson, a 36-year-old mason, to two years imprisonment with hard labour for stabbing a carpenter.
Lawson in addition will pay a fine of one million cedis or in default go to jail for 12 months with hard labour.
The tribunal, chaired by Mr Imoru Ziblim also ordered Lawson to pay three million cedis to the victim as compensation. Lawson pleaded guilty to causing unlawful harm.
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Aflao (Volta Region) 24 Jan. 2001
The Ketu District Security
Task-force has impounded 16 vehicles and made a number of arrests in connection
with fuel smuggling into Togo since its establishment in October last year.
Simon Dewodo and Daniel Amewovi,
both drivers were fined 2 million cedis each by the Aflao Circuit Court last
December for smuggling fuel while taxi a cab number VR 3881C which was used in
committing the crime was also confiscated to the state.
Mr. Michael Godknows Kobla,
Superintendent of Police in charge of Aflao, and hairman of the task force told
the Ghana News Agency at the weekend that other alleged fuel smugglers are
before the courts while documents for others are being processed for
prosecution.
The impounded vehicles are Datsun
taxi cabs numbers GR 7510M, GT 3989E, GR 3729M, GR 362E, GR 2762F, GR 6681A and
Datsun Mini-Bus number VR 989C.
The others are, Toyota Pick-Up
number GT 7223E, Toyota Taxi cab number GT 6881A, GT 5404A, Toyota Mini-bus GT
647P, Hundai private salon car number GT 4066N, Isuzu taxi cab number GT 9508P,
Mazda taxi cab number GT 4832A and Peugeot 505 salon car number GR 6192A.
Mr Kobla expressed regret that the
operations of the taskforce have not deterred people from smuggling petroleum
products into Togo.
He appealed to the government to
equip the police with vehicles and communication gadgets to be able to measure
up to the challenges posed by the sophistication of criminal activities.
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