Accra, March 13,– A 25-year-old
driver, Fataw Fuseini, has pleaded not guilty to the charges of possessing
firearms and threatening one Suleiman Alhassan with a gun, before an Accra
Circuit Court.
Fataw was earlier brought before
the court and remanded on March 2, but his plea was not taken because of the
absence of a Dagbani interpreter.
On Tuesday when the case was
called Fataw pleaded not guilty to the charges after the charges and facts were
read to him in Dagbani, by an interpreter.
He told the court that he was not
guilty of the offences charged him, adding that the facts as was read, did not
reflect what happened in anyway.
The court remanded him into
police custody and adjourned the matter to March 26.
Earlier, Police Chief Inspector,
Kwabena Adu, prosecuting, told the court that the complainant Suleiman is a scrap
dealer and lives at Agbogbloshie, whilst the accused is a driver also lives at
Agbogbloshie.
He said on February 19, at about
1245 hours the complainant was at his work place around Sikkens company at
Agbogbloshie, when Fataw came to the yard with his tri—cycle full of rubbish to
dump.
He said the complainant told the
accused not to dump the rubbish in the yard, since the elders of the yard had
given warning to all around not to dump rubbish in and around the place.
The prosecution said Fataw became
offended, left the tri-cycle in the yard, went to call five others now at
large, armed with a locally manufactured pistol and attacked the complainant.
The accused pulled a pistol from
his pocket, but the complainant held his hand and with assistance of the
complainant’s brothers, the accused was overpowered and the pistol taken from
him.
Mr Adu told the court that, a
spot search conducted on Fataw revealed six ‘AAA’ live cartridges.
He was handed over to the
Agbogbloshie Police together with the pistol and the cartridges.
GNA
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