Transporter charged with accepting bribe to influence public officer

Daniel Kumi, a transporter, who collected two million cedis and a carton of frozen fish from the wife of a suspect under the pretext of influencing officers of the Bureau of National Investigations (BNI), has been charged before an Accra Circuit Tribunal.

Kumi, 42,who pleaded not guilty to accepting bribe to influence public officer, was granted five million cedis bail with one surety to appear again on September 25. Inspector Emmanuel Boison told the tribunal chaired by Mr. Ziblim Moru that Kumi, a transporter at the Tema Fishing Harbour collected the items from the wife of Daniel Kwame Peprah, the suspect, claiming he could influence the BNI to grant him bail and drop the charges against him.

Inspector Boison said on June 28, this year Preprah was arrested for allegedly evading customs duty on his Opel Kaddett saloon car and for possessing forged documents on the car from Vehicle Examination and Licensing Division. He said the accused made use of the items when he did not succeed in bribing any of the BNI officers