Gbewornyo granted five million cedis bail
Court restrains two traditional rulers
Farmer charged for alleged murder of wife
Accra (Greater Accra) 17 September 2001 - Vincent K. Gbewornyo, a 63-year-old man, who allegedly crossed the Presidential Motorcade on the El Wak-Burma Camp road killing a dispatch rider, Sergeant E. K. Owusu on August 31 has been granted five million cedis bail by the James Town Community Tribunal.
The tribunal chaired by Mrs Elizabeth Ankomah said it was awaiting a duplicate docket from the Attorney General's Office. Gbewornyo, whose plea is yet to be taken, would reappear on September 25.
Sgt Owusu, popularly known as "Burger", was leading the Presidential convoy from the Castle to Burma Camp when Gbeworyo, driving a Mazda pickup, allagedly ran into his motorbike. Sgt Owusu sustained serious injuries and was pronounced dead on arrival at the 37 Military Hospital.
Gbewornyo, who has been named in another traffic offence, was alleged to have knocked down and killed one Kwesi Attah with the same vehicle at Gomoa Engleshi, near Apam in the Central Region on January 22, this year. The Prosecution said Gbeworyo failed to assist Police by refusing to produce documents on his vehicle.
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Kumasi (Ashanti Region) 17 September 2001 - A High Court in Kumasi has restrained both the plaintiff, Nana Obeng Darko-Kokrodo II and co-defendants, Oheneba Osei Kwame and Samuel Kwabi, all in Kumasi from carrying out any development on the lands in and around Mpatasie near Kumasi pending the determination of a land case before it.
The court, in its order, said both parties, their servants, agents, assigns, workmen be restrained from any manner interfering with the land, the subject matter in dispute, more particularly from granting or carrying out or continuing with any development on the land pending the hearing and determination of this cause or matter before the court.
Presided over by Justice F. Kusi Appiah, the court however, indicated that the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, is at liberty to apply formally to the court for the settlement of the case out of court.
In a motion of notice by Mr. K.A. Asante-Krobea, counsel for the plaintiff, Nana Darko-Kokrodo asked the court for an interim injunction against the defendants and their agents from carrying out any development of the land at Mpatasie in Kumasi.
Nana Darko-Kokrodo in an accompanying affidavit in support of his statement of claim sought reliefs that he is the Odikro of Mpatasie and caretaker of Mpatasie stool lands while Oheneba Osei Kwame is the Atipimhene of Kumasi.
He said the defendants were served with copies of the writ of summons but they have not heeded the warning to desist from putting up unauthorised structures on the said public plots at Mpatasie.
He said from the time the defendants were served with the writ of summons, they and their agents have intensified their unlawful activities on the stool lands.
Nana Darko-Kokrodo pointed out that in spite of several warnings also from the Kumasi Metropolitan Authority (KMA) city engineer, the defendants and their agents continued with impunity their acts of lawlessness and this compelled the plaintiff to petition the Ashanti Regional Minister.
He indicated that the Mpatasie lands reserved for public development cannot be resold to private developers hence the purported sale and development of the said public lands is unlawful.
He stressed that even though the defendants have been served with all processes from the registry of the court, they are still persisting in their illegal activity by carrying out constructional work on the land.
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Sekondi (Western Region) 17 September 2001 - Samuel Dwure , a 32 -year- old fisherman was on Monday put before a Sekondi community tribunal for allegedly murdering his ex wife.
Dwure’s, who is also known as Oldman Bosomtwi is to re-appear on September 24. His plea is yet to be taken.
Prosecuting, Police inspector Joseph Hedidor said Dwure was married to Fena Amakyewaah for 4 years before the marriage was dissolved a few months ago.
He said in the first week of July this year, Fena asked the accused for money for the upkeep of their baby boy and Dwure gave her 4,000 cedis, which she rejected.
While Dwure was walking away, the deceased held his shirt but the accused became furious and hit Fena who fell backward into a big gutter.
The deceased managed to get up from the gutter and went home but while her condition was deteriorating she told her father what happened.
She was rushed to the Effiankwanta Hospital where she died shortly after admission. Later, the accused came out from his hideout and was arrested, Inspector Hedidor said.
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