I took grenades to BNI armoury - Witness
Farmer jailed 20 years for defiling daughter
Man put before court for abusive language
I took grenades to BNI armoury - Witness
Accra
(Greater Accra) 15 March 2001
Detective
Inspector Hanson Gove, seventh prosecution witness in the highway gold robbery
case on Wednesday told the trial High Court that he took grenades which he
found in the residence of the first accused person, RSM Jack Bebli, to the BNI
armoury.
Led in
evidence by Mr Anthony Gyambiby, Principal State Attorney, Inspector Gove, the
investigator, told the court that he seized the grenades because Bebli could
not produce any permit to cover them.
Witness
said Bebli informed him that he took the grenades from the armoury of the
Police Commando Unit.
Bebli and
six others are on trial for their involvement in a highway robbery of eight
gold bars valued at 2.4 billion cedis in 1999 at Gomoa Abotsia, near Apam
Junction.
The other
accused persons are Philip Asamoah, alias Agingo, Isaac Frimpong, alias Nii
Baby Tei, Patrick Boakye Mprah, Ex-Corporal James Doli, Augustus Oko Odartey
and Kofi Bokor, alias Kofi Bebli.
The gold,
property of Amansie Resource in the Ashanti Region, was being transported to
Accra on its behalf on February 16, 1999 when the robbers attacked the bullion
van and made away with it.
The accused
persons who face various charges of conspiracy to commit crime, abetment of
crime, robbery and abetment of robbery, have pleaded not guilty.
Witness
said during his investigations it came out that between January and February
1999, the accused persons held a series of meetings at the residence of Bebli,
and planned to attack the bullion van on February 16, 1999.
He told the
court that at one of those meetings, Asamoah hinted the rest that he would be
driving the bullion van on that day and he would deliberately surrender in the
course of the attack.
He said on
the eve of the operation, Frimpong visited Asamoah at his workplace at the West
Coast Allied Services, an Accra-based private security company that was to
transport the gold bars, during which Asamoah confirmed that he would drive the
bullion van.
Inspector
Gove said Frimpong also informed Asamoah that due to ill health, Bebli would
not be able to take part in the operation.
Witness
said Mprah was picked at Nima, while Bokor and the soldiers on the run joined
the group at Bebli's residence at New Achimota.
He said on
the D-day, the accused persons drove to Yamoransa Junction in a convoy of three
vehicles, made up of two Peugeot caravans and a Nissan Urvan bus belonging to
Bebli.
Witness
said at one of their meetings the accused persons resolved not to kill anybody
during the operation. Their only intention was to rob.
Hearing
continues on Thursday.
GRi…/
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Farmer jailed 20 years for defiling daughter
Ho
(Volta Region) 15 March 2001
The
Ho Circuit Tribunal on Wednesday sentenced Clemence Hatse, a 33-year-old farmer
to 20 years imprisonment in hard labour for defiling his six-year-old daughter.
Hatse,
from Wusuta in the Kpando district, pleaded guilty.
Prosecuting,
Chief Inspector Comfort Yeboah told the tribunal, chaired by Mr. Robin Batu,
that the victim, who lives with her grandmother, went to Hatse to spend the
last Christmas holidays.
On
her return, the grandmother detected that the little girl was walking
abnormally and when she interrogated her she said her father defiled her while
she was with him.
A
report was made to the police and the accused was arrested. A medical report on
the girl indicated that her hymen has been broken.
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Man put
before court for abusive language
Bolgatanga
(Northern Region) 15 March 2001
A
carpenter, Peter Adongo, was on Monday arraigned before the Bolgatanga Circuit
Court charged with two counts of uttering provocative words and causing a
breach of the peace when he rained insults on a pregnant woman.
Adongo
pleaded not guilty and was granted a 500,000-cedi bail to reappear on March 14.
Prosecuting,
Police Chief Inspector James Owusu told the court that on January 31, the
accused bought kenkey from the daughter of the complainant and asked for a
napkin to clean his hands after eating.
When the
napkin was brought the accused protested saying it was too old and dirty and
started insulting the girl.
The
complainant advised the accused to be patient, but he insulted her also,
calling her a prostitute.
GRi…/
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