Eight Egyptian Embassy staff re-arrested
Security officer, 36, defiles girl, 13
Doctor allegedly defrauds friend, issues dud
cheques
Eight Egyptian Embassy staff re-arrested
Accra (Greater Accra) 09 June 2000
The Police on Wednesday re-arrested Eight employees of the Egyptian Embassy soon after a stealing case involving them at the residence of the Ambassador had been dismissed by the Osu Community Tribunal, triggering a confrontation with their lawyers.
They were alleged to have unlawfully entered the house and stole items belonging to the Ambassador.
The pleas of the suspects, who were briefly put into the dock without any docket covering their offence, were not taken and the tribunal discharged them.
They are Francis de Laurance Onumah, Emmanuel Bobi, Eric Johnson Amoak, Ambraise Colokoa, Samuel Boateng, Ben Benahene, Doris Broni and Grace Agbeko.
They were suspected to have stolen a Canon camera, an Ericsson mobile phone and a stabilizer, property of the Egyptian Ambassador.
Mrs. Ivy Heward-Mills, chairing the tribunal, said there was no case against them, since the tribunal did not have any docket on the suspects and wondered how a fair trial was going to be ensured.
She said if the docket was at that time at the police headquarters, the police could not dictate to the tribunal to remand the eight suspects, only for them to be transferred to another court for prosecution.
"My tribunal cannot be used as a thorough fair," she said.
Mrs. Heward-Mills noted that the Egyptian Ambassador, who is the complainant in the case, or his representative, was absent from the tribunal.
She cautioned the prosecution not to take the tribunal for granted and therefore, dismissed the case and the suspects were accordingly discharged.
However, as the suspects were freed, a nasty situation erupted when policemen in mufti, led by Inspector Johnson K. Anim, the prosecutor in the case, tried to re-arrest them and put them into a waiting TATA bus.
This led the suspects’ attorneys to confront the policemen.
The lawyers protested, saying the police had defied the tribunal's orders, arguing that the arrest was made within the premises of the extension of the tribunal, which was within its jurisdiction and asked the police not to take the law into their own hands.
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Security officer, 36, defiles girl, 13
Accra (Greater Accra) 09 June 2000
An Accra Circuit Tribunal on Thursday remanded a 36-year-old security officer of WESTEC in custody for allegedly defiling a 13 year-old girl and infecting her with gonorrhoea.
Francis Kudiagbor pleaded not guilty and will reappear on June 9.
The prosecution told the tribunal chaired by Mrs. Elizabeth Anderson Yebuah that Kudiagbor, on duty at a house at Dzorwulu, where the victim stays with her elder sister, sneaked into the victim's room at about 01:00 hours on May 15.
He covered her mouth with a handkerchief and forcibly had sex with her.
According to the prosecution, the accused warned the girl not to tell her sister or his employers about the incident.
However, the victim, who was hunted by the ordeal, confided in the witness in the case, who in turn informed the victims’ sister.
Her sister lodged a complaint with the Women and Juvenile Unit of the Ghana Police Service and Kudiagbor was arrested.
The prosecution said a medical on the victim indicated that she had been defiled and infected with gonorrhoea.
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Doctor allegedly defrauds friend, issues
dud cheques
Accra (Greater Accra) 09 June 2000
A medical practitioner who allegedly defrauded a retired banker and issued him with two false cheques has been arraigned at an Accra Circuit Tribunal.
Dr Anthony Osei, who is currently an Estate Developer, pleaded not guilty to defrauding Mr. J. A. Dadzie of 24 million cedis, in addition to 1,200 pounds and 13,000 dollars.
He was granted bail in the sum of 100 million cedis with two sureties to be justified to appear again on Monday, June 19.
The case for the prosecution is that in April 1996, the accused person who is a friend of Mr. Dadzie collected the money and promised to supply him with lorry tyres.
When he could not honour his promise, he issued a cheque for 24 million cedis to Mr. Dadzie, but it bounced on February 15, 1999.
Again on March 13, this year, the accused person issued another cheque to Mr. Dadzie to cover the equivalent of the debt in Pounds Sterling.
When the second cheque was dishonoured, Mr. Dadzie reported the matter to the police.
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