Some four persons who were arrested by the Kasoa Divisional Police Command in the Central Region yesterday for causing mayhem at a registration center in Kasoa have today, July 21, 2020, been granted bail by a Cape Coast Circuit Court.
The four, Sulley Razak, a 27-year-old mechanic; Majeed Amadu, a 23-year-old trader; Suleman Yusuf, a 25-year-old trader; and Abdul Razak Musah, a 31-year-old businessman, are said to have raided the Kasoa Peace Town Top Polling Center, pulled out a pistol and fired to scare people who had queued to register.
Briefing the court, prosecutor Daniel Gadza narrated that at about 9:30 am on July 20, 2020, the accused persons and their accomplices who are now at large besieged the Peace Town Polling Center in Kasoa and started firing indiscriminately while registration was ongoing.
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This, he said, resulted in a misunderstanding between them and the youth in the area, and in the process the accused set on fire three motorbikes parked at the registration center. The police patrol team upon information received proceeded to the scene and managed to arrest the four.
The accused were charged with conspiracy to commit crime, causing unlawful damage to three motorbikes, and discharge of firearms in a public space without authority. They pleaded not guilty to all three charges.
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The court presided by Justice Dorinda Smith Arthur, upon a plea by the accused’s lawyer, Amponsah Dadzie, granted them bail to a sum of GHS30, 000 each and two sureties each with one surety being a government worker whose net salary is not less than GHS2000.
The case has since been adjourned to August 18, 2020, and the accused are to report to the Kasoa Police every Tuesday until the case is called again.
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