US-based Ghanaian charged with causing harm and possessing firearm

Kofi Agyeman, a US-based Ghanaian who shot a boy in the buttocks in a fit of anger for being jilted by his former girl friend, was on Thursday arraigned at a circuit tribunal in Accra.

Agyeman, who pleaded not guilty to causing harm and possessing firearm without authority, was granted five million cedis bail with one surety to appear again on February 1. Police Chief Inspector Kofi Adu told the tribunal chaired by Mr Ziblim Imoru that the accused fired several shots, one of which hit a boy, Seidu Suraju in a confrontation with his former girl friend and her new lover.

The prosecutor said on January 15 this year Nana Esi, Agyeman's ex-girl friend went out with her new date and on her return home late in the evening she met Agyeman in front of her house. Agyeman asked her to come out of the car but she refused. The accused then slapped Nana Esi's boyfriend but the couple, in no mood to create any scene, drove away.

Agyeman chased them in his car to a filling station where he rained insults on Nana Esi's boyfriend. Agyeman then pulled out a pistol and shot indiscriminately to disperse the crowd drawn to the scene. Inspector Adu said one of the bullets hit Suraju who was passing by.