GRi in Court Ghana 15 - 11 - 2000
Watchman remanded
for stealing judge's goat
Corn miller granted bail after three years
on remand
Watchman remanded
for stealing judge's goat
Sunyani (Brong Ahafo) 15 November
2000
Awuni Frafra, a night watchman,
pleaded with police to pardon him for stealing "the wrong goat", when
he was told that the animal belonged to the supervising High Court judge at
Sunyani.
Awuni, also called
"Bombay," was however, remanded in custody when he appeared before a
Circuit Court at Sunyani, on Tuesday.
He pleaded not guilty to stealing
the goat valued at 250,000 cedis and will be brought before the court again on
November 20.
A butcher at Sunyani Zongo who allegedly
bought the stolen goat for 90,000 cedis was reported to have fled his home on
the approach of some policemen Awuni was leading to retrieve the goat. Police
have mounted a search for the butcher, whose name was only given as Kobila.
The court heard that Mr Justice P.
K. Gyaesayor, the Supervising High Court judge, on a routine inspection of his
pen in the morning on November 11, this year, realised that a he-goat he had
castrated and was fattening for Christmas had vanished.
That was his fifth animal that had
been stolen in two weeks.
The judge reported the matter to
the Police and Awuni was arrested the same day and upon interrogation he
admitted the offence and led the Police to a house at Sunyani Zongo to retrieve
the animal.
GRi…/
Corn miller granted bail after three years
on remand
Accra (Greater Accra) 15 November 2000
Kwaku Logah, a corn miller, who was recently granted bail after being in custody for three years, appeared before a circuit tribunal on Tuesday to answer the charge for which he was remanded in 1997, causing harm to a child.
Twenty-one year old Logah, pleading not guilty, was given bail to appear again on November 30.
He is said to have committed the offence at Ntafafla village near Pokuase in Ga district.
The tribunal, chaired by Mr Ziblim Moru heard that on May 7 1997, Victoria Abusah, the victim, went to Ntatafla's mill to grind cassava chips.
After grinding, Abusah placed the dough outside the shop while she went to play with her friends.
Logah who used lantern in the mill at night went to his machine room to bring kerosene to light the lantern. However, he mistakenly took a gallon containing diesel oil, which he poured into the lantern.
As he lit it the lantern exploded, but he quickly threw it out of the room. It landed in the midst of four children who were playing outside among whom was Abusah.
The children sustained burns and were taken to the Nsawam Hospital but Abusah died.
GRi…/