Woman fined for assaulting policeman

Cape Coast, Dec. 17, GNA- Ekua Ahemaa, a 58-year-old farmer from Effutu near Cape Coast was on Wednesday fined one million cedis by a Cape Coast circuit court for slapping a police officer. Ahemaa, who pleaded not guilty to assault would go to prison for nine months in default.

The court ordered that 500,000 cedis out of the amount should be given to the victim, Chief Inspector Samuel Amponsah of the regional police command, as compensation.

The court said Ahemaa, who in her defence claimed the police officer first assaulted her, could have reported the case to the police, instead of taking the law into her hands.

The case for the prosecution was that there is a land dispute between Ahemaa's daughter, one madam Efua Kakraba, and Chief Inspector Amponsah's wife, pending before a court at Cape Coast.

The prosecution said, on June 4, this year, a carpenter Madam Kakraba had engaged to re-roof her building on the land, came to report to her that the police officer had ordered him to stop work because there was a court injunction on the land.

The prosecution said Madam Kakraba then went to report the matter to her mother and the two went to Chief Inspector Amponsah's house, and in an ensuing quarrel, Ahemaa slapped the police officer several times.