Police ordered to send vehicle back to INTERPOL in Cote d'Ivoire
Music producer charged with fraud
Police ordered to send vehicle back to
INTERPOL in Cote d'Ivoire
Accra (Greater Accra) 08 June 2000
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Wednesday ordered the Police to send a vehicle alleged to have been stolen from Abidjan, back to its owner through INTERPOL in Cote d'Ivoire.
The order followed an application made by the prosecution indicating that the Police "have no safe place to keep the Nissan pick-up," which has been at the centre of a dishonestly receiving case before the tribunal.
Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson-Yebuah, Chairman of the tribunal, therefore, ordered that since the prosecution has said INTERPOL in Cote d'Ivoire has been able to identify the owner of the vehicle, it should be sent to him.
At the tribunal's sitting on Wednesday, two persons, a Ghanaian and a Malian national were arraigned for dishonestly receiving the vehicle from an Ivorian by name Abdoulaye.
Both accused persons, Kwaku Achia, a farmer from Sefwi-Yamatwa in the Western Region, and Sylla Yakubu from Bamako, pleaded not guilty to the charge and they were remanded for a week.
The case for the prosecution was that on March 23 the owner of the vehicle drove it to a hairdressing salon in Abidjan to pick up his wife.
While in the vehicle three unidentified armed men attacked the couple, forced them out and drove the car away.
They reported the matter to the Abidjan Police, who in turn informed INTERPOL.
INTERPOL then brought the matter to the attention of all their counterparts in neighbouring countries. On March 27, the Police in Kumasi, acting upon a tip-off, arrested the two accused persons from their hideout at Kwadaso with the stolen vehicle.
Upon interrogation, Achia told the Police that Abdoulaye, an Ivorian, gave the vehicle to him at Dormaa Ahenkro to sell it for him but he could not lead them Abdoulaye.
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Wa (Upper West Region) 08 June 2000
A Wa Circuit Court on Monday sentenced a self-styled herbalist and trickster to seven years' imprisonment with hard labour for defrauding a woman of 700,000 cedis.
Benjamin Ayensu, alias Tawiah, 45, pleaded guilty to the charge of defrauding by false pretences. The Judge, Mr. Gibson K. Adzagli convicted him on his own plea to serve as a deterrent to others with dubious character.
The court had heard that in May, Ayensu, who lived in Wa Zongo, approached Miss Evelyn Liribu, 25, an apprentice weaver, who resides at Kabali in Wa, that she could never make babies unless he exorcised an evil spirit living in her.
Miss Evelyn, who the prosecution said was desperate for a child after three years of marriage, collected some concoctions from the convict after paying an unspecified amount.
On May 16, he again went to the woman and convinced her to part with 700,000 cedis to double her chances, after which he went into hiding. Evelyn after an intensive search traced him to his hideout.
When he was asked to refund the money, he presented a plastic container clad in a piece of calico material to the complainant and warned her not to open it until after three days when he himself would come and count its contents.
After the stipulated time, the woman opened the container when the convict failed to show up.
To her dismay, it contained eight bundles of pieces of paper cut to the size of five thousand cedi-notes with a genuine note on each side.
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Music producer charged with fraud
Accra (Greater Accra) 08 June 2000
A 25-year-old music producer, Mike Solomon who allegedly collected 16.5 million cedis and a Ghanaian passport from his church member under the pretext of securing a German visa for him, on Tuesday appeared before a circuit tribunal in Accra.
He pleaded not guilty to defrauding by false pretences and was granted 10 million cedis bail with one surety to be justified and would appear again on June 23.
The prosecution told the tribunal chaired by Mr. Justice Charles Quist, that sometime in January this year, Frank Owusu Asiedu, informed Mike that he needed a visa to enable him to travel to Germany and Mike promised to help.
Mike collected 16.5 million cedis and a passport from Mr. Asiedu to process a German visa and other travelling documents for him but failed to honour his promise and went into hiding until he was arrested.
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