Buokrom assemblyman remanded in custody

Kumasi, Nov. 29, GNA 96 Anthony Nsiah, Assemblyman for the Boukrom electoral area in Kumasi has been remanded by the Ashtown magistrate's court in Kumasi for allegedly causing damage and stealing. Nsiah, 60, is alleged to have caused damage to a church building being constructed by one Reverend Joseph Okrah at Buokrom and stole some tools belonging to the workers on the project.

He pleaded not guilty to the charge and was remanded into prison custody to reappear before the court on December 4, 2006.

Briefing the Ghana News Agency in Kumasi on Wednesday, Superintendent Paul Ayitey, Asawase District Police Commander, said the Reverend Okrah in October, this year, employed some construction workers to work on the church project.

He said whilst the workers were carrying out their duties, Nsiah stormed the site and without any provocation caused extensive damage to the building and took away some tools belonging to the workers all amounting to about two million cedis.

Superintendent Ayitey said Reverend Okrah lodged a complaint with the police who arrested him and after investigations charged him with the offence.

He said in the course of the investigations, Nsiah claimed that the said church building was being constructed on a site earmarked for a sanitation project and that led him to damage it. Superintendent Ayitey said however, when his outfit verified the assemblyman's claim from the Survey Department in Kumasi, it was found out to be false.