GRi in Court Ghana 08 - 03 - 2001
Tribunal orders SSNIT
tenants to pay arrears or quit
Armed men hijacked our vehicle - Witness
Tribunal orders
SSNIT tenants to pay arrears or quit
Koforidua (Eastern Region) 08
March 2001
A Koforidua Community Tribunal last
Wednesday, ordered 11 tenants of the Social Security and National Insurance
Trust (SSNIT) office complex and flats at Adweso and Effiduase at Koforidua to
pay their rent arrears or quit by March 30.
The Tribunal, chaired by Mr D.K.
Addae, gave the order when the tenants who pleaded liable appeared before it on
March 2, this year. It further ordered them to pay a total of 20 million cedis
they owe SSNIT in addition to interest on the amount in accordance with
prevailing rate from November 2000 up to the date of judgement.
The tenants include public and
private institutions whose arrears, ranging between 195,000 cedis and eight
million cedis has accumulated for over 12 months.
The SSNIT Prosecution Unit told
the tribunal that in January this year, warning notices were sent to 118
tenants including the 11 to pay their arrears or face legal action.
Majority of them settled their
debt but those put before the tribunal defaulted.
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Armed men hijacked our vehicle - Witness
Accra (Greater Accra) 08 March 2001
The fifth prosecution witness in the Highway Gold Robbery trial on Wednesday told the court that a vehicle he was driving on the Accra-Cape Coast Road was hijacked about four kilometres from Apam Junction by an armed man.
Mr Yaw Hakem, a driver of Mr Alan Dods, Managing Director of the Obuasi Mines, told the High Court that an armed man forced their Nissan Patrol vehicle to stop while they were travelling from Accra to Obuasi.
He was giving evidence in the trial of Regimental Sergeant Major (RSM) Jack Bebli and six others for their involvement in the theft of eight gold bars valued at one million dollars.
On February 16, 1999, the accused persons laid ambush at Gomoa Abotsia, near Apam Junction, on the Accra-Cape Coast Highway, attacked a bullion van of Amansie Resource and made away with the gold bars.
They are being tried on various charges of conspiracy to commit crime, abetment of crime, robbery and abetment of robbery.
Led in evidence by Mr Johannes Vegba, Assistant State Attorney, Mr Hakem told the court that the man, dressed in a uniform similar to that of a policeman, stood in the middle of the road.
Witness said when he had ordered him and Mr Dods to get down from the vehicle, he saw another armed man in a similar dress smashing the side window of a Land Rover parked on the other side of the road.
Mr Hakem said after they were ordered to go into the bush, one of the armed men took his master's wallet, ordered them to kneel with their faces down and threatened to kill his boss if he failed to comply.
Witness told the court that the armed men then drove their vehicle off and he joined a vehicle belonging to the Ghana National Fire Service that arrived on the scene, to Apam Police Station where he reported the matter.
Mr Dods, the fourth prosecution witness, told the court that the first armed man ordered him to get down and then took his wallet, which contained 300 dollars and a credit card worth 100,000 cedis.
He said the two armed-men drove his Nissan Patrol and another vehicle belonging to GHACEM towards Accra.
Mr Dods said after narrating the incident to other motorists, one of them drove him to Apam Police Station where he made a report.
Bebli and two others, Patrick Boakye Mprah and Ex-corporal James Doli are on bail. The rest, Philip Asamoah, alias Agingo, Isaac Frimpong, alias Nii Baby Tei, Augustus Oko Odartey and Kofi Bokor, alias Kofi Bebli, are on remand at the James Fort Prisons. They have all pleaded not guilty
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