Murder of Oblogo Chief - Three in prison custody

An Accra Magistrate Court has ordered three out of 15 persons suspected to have had a hand in the murder of the chief of Oblogo, Nii Kwaku Bibini III, to be remanded into prison custody.

The three on remand are Ibrahim Tetteh alias Hotcake, Moses Attoh and Abdul Rauf.

The remaining 12 who are on bail are Kofi Kpoh, Agenyega Amedeka, Comfort Aryee, Samuel Kponmegbe, Otokunnor Sackey, Samuel Tetteh, Gabriel Aheto, Mr Prince Sackey, Enoch Kofi, Joshua Tetteh, Joseph Laryea and Salifu Sumaila.

A Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) George Amega prayed the court that the cells at the Criminal Investigation Department was being decongested and fumigated as such the three who have been remanded by the court be sent to prison custody instead of police custody.

According to DSP Amega, the Police had also not received any advice from the Attorney Generals Department on the case docket.

Lawyers for the accused persons objected to the prosecution’s submission explaining that they might not have access to them which may create some difficulties for them.

The lawyers also said, sometimes the Police tended to forget accused persons on remand at the prisons and they did not want their clients to experience same that.

The court presided over by Mr Ali Baba Bature obliged the prosecution and adjourned the case to November 5.

The accused persons who had their pleas preserved are being charged with conspiracy to commit crime and murder.