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BENCH WARRANT ISSUED FOR 2 ‘LANDGUARDS’

by Kofi Ampeah Woode

An Accra Circuit Court has issued a bench warrant for the arrest of two persons – Stephen Okutu (alias Kofi Santos) and Benjamin Djanker (alias Asaa), charged by the Ghana Police Service for providing land guard services for an estate developer.

The warrant for their arrest was issued on January 17, 2023, by the Court presided over by Judge Samuel Bright Acquah, in a case of which four persons – James Okine (an estates developer), Abubakar Issah (unemployed), Kamach Yeboah and Ali Amadu (heavy equipment operators) – have been handed a Court bail the sum totaling GHS250,000 with 8 sureties, on Police charges of conspiracy to commit crime and unlawful protection of land.

The Circuit Court slapped the quartet with the bail amount and a total of eight sureties – James Okine’s bail bond was GH¢100,000, with two sureties who should be Public Servants earning not less than GH¢2,000 monthly salaries, whiles the rest had bails of GH¢50,000 with two sureties each – on Tuesday January 17, 2023, where they all pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Godrich Ardey, a businessman who resides at Katamanso, reported to the police on January 3, 2023 that his family’s land of 1.625.474 acres at Katamanso, covered by a Land Title Certificate, was being encroached upon by James Okine, who also is the owner of Greenlake Estates and had recruited land guards to protect him and his workers, while they were unlawfully grading the land to commence development.

On January 5, 2023, the police visited the said land with the complainant and found Kamack and Amadu using a pay loader machine to grade the complainant’s family land under the protection of Abubakar Issah, one Stephen Okutu and Benjamin Djanker, but Okutu and Djanker ran away to avoid arrest and have been at large, hence the issuance of the Bench Warrant.

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