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21 charged over Ardeyman chief's murder

The accused were remanded to enable the police to conduct further investigations into the case.

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The court presided over by Isaac Addo, remanded the accused persons to enable the police to conduct further investigations into the case, the Daily Graphic reports.

The suspects include Asafoatse Neequaye Kortey, Musah Mohammed, Rahim Yakubu, James Laryea, Michael Akumeh, Prince Kwesi Boateng, Dzaatse Nii Okai-Koifio and David Sampah.

The others are Solomon Atoh, Abel Bortey, Abraham Ofori, Emmanuel Aryee, Enoch Atoh, Ezekiel Nii Ayeequaye Tetteh, Eric Aryeequaye Armah and Frank Okine.

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The rest are Derrick Kwabena Mensah, Prince Okine, Joseph Oblitey Commey, Nathanial Ayah and Henry Cresil.

All of them have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder, murder and two counts of attempted murder after they allegedly tried to kill two other persons identified as Jonathan Aryeteey and Kojo Richard.

Asafoatse Neequaye Kortey has also been charged separately with the unlawful possession of explosive, firearms and ammunition.

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Gregory Yeboah, told the court that on June 8, 2017, Nii Saban and some family members were attacked by the 21 individuals armed with “AK 47 rifles, pistols, cutlasses and clubs’’ while a ritual was ongoing to lift the ban on drumming and noise making as part of the Homowo festival.

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“The attackers chased Nii Saban who had entered a room for safety, fired at him and also inflicted machete wounds on his whole body. They then carried and dumped him in another room and bolted,’’ he said.

He said that following investigations, Kortey, Mohammed and Yakubu were arrested at Kwabenya, near Accra on June 12, 2017, while Laryea, Akumah and Boateng were arrested on June 18, 2017.

the rest, he said, were arrested on June 21, 2017 after some of the victims of the attack had identified them.

But the lawyer for the accused persons, Mr Daniel Afari Yeboah denied the facts as presented by the prosecutor.

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According to him, his clients had no connection with the alleged murder and at the time of the incident, most of them were not even in Ardeyman.

He said that most of the accused persons were arrested because they had a land dispute with certain individuals at Ardeyman.

The court subsequently ordered the police to fast track their investigations into the case and also make copies of the charge sheets available to the lawyers of the accused persons.

The case was adjourned to July 12, 2017.

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