3 Nima Youth remanded …. for use of offensive weapons

By: Helena Selby

A businessman and two others, who allegedly inflicted severe wounds on some residents in Nima, in the Greater Accra Region have been remanded into custody after fresh charges were brought against them.
The accused persons, Ibrahim Kumordzi, Businessman, Mohammed Karim, driver’s mate and Mohammed Suala, trader, who were previously granted bail, ended up in custody again, after their charges were substituted with new charges.
The court, presided over by Mrs. Patience Mills- Tetteh, however, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of a fourth accused person, Sulley Fuseini alias Achi Dun –Du, a goal keeper, who failed to appear in court.
All the accused persons, who are residents of Nima, allegedly organized a demonstration upon the arrest of some of youth in area.
The accused persons, who organized a demonstration against the Nima police and the Nima Neighbourhood Watch Committee, for the release of some of their colleagues, who were in custody, allegedly vented their spleen on the Nima police and in the process inflicting severe cutlass wounds on one Amadu Ibrahim Jabkle and Mohammed Tetteh, alias TT.
The accused persons were also alleged to have had in their possession, offensive weapons like cutlass, sticks and missiles.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit crime, contrary to section 23 (1) of act 29/60 and two counts of use of offensive weapons contrary to section 70 of act 29/60, when they appeared before the court. The case has therefore been adjourned to March 28, 2012.
The brief facts are that due to the numerous criminal activities in Nima and its environs, the Nima Police on November 15, 2011, mounted a swoop and arrested five suspects from their various ghettos.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector B.O Yeboah told the court that the exercise infuriated the passion of the accused persons and others now at large who led a group of youth, armed with cutlass and other missiles, with the view of freeing those arrested by the police, but failed.
“At about 8:00pm the same night, the same group of Nimayouth, led by the accused persons and their accomplices, armed with cutlass, sticks and other implements vented their temper on the members of the Nima Neighbourhood Watch Committee”, he noted.
According to him, they attacked them, claiming they instigated the police operations and in the process inflicted severe cutlass wounds on the complainant, who became unconscious as a result of excessive bleeding, adding that they were rushed to the 37 Military Hospital and the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital for treatment.
The prosecution further indicated that the victims were admitted and later discharged after treatment. On November 28, 2011, the accused persons were arrested from their hide out by some members of the Nima Neighbourhood Watch Committee, and handed them over to the police.