Barker-Vormawor faces new cost, 4 others discharged
The State on Thursday introduced a brand new cost towards Oliver Barker-Vormawor, chief of the Democracy Hub anti-galamsey protest group. Initially, Barker-Vormawor was charged with stealing keys to a police towing car.
During the courtroom proceedings, Nana Ama Adinkra, a Senior State Attorney, knowledgeable the courtroom of a brand new cost sheet. She withdrew the earlier cost sheet and changed it with an up to date one.
In the brand new cost sheet, the state dropped the theft cost towards Barker-Vormawor and as a substitute charged him with “intentionally turning off the ignition of a police towing truck.”
Four others related to the matter have been discharged because the state dropped expenses towards them.
Those discharged embody Cedric Bansah, Emmanuel Offei, Nana Amo Mensah Prempeh, and Thomas Yeboah.
Barker-Vormawor and eight others are going through expenses of conspiracy, illegal meeting, inflicting illegal injury, offensive conduct conducive to a breach of the peace, and assault on a public officer.
They have pleaded not responsible and are at the moment on bail.
A couple of weeks in the past, the police arrested 53 members of the anti-galamsey protest group, Democracy Hub, for alleged lawlessness and subsequently arraigned them.
A Circuit Court in Accra had beforehand discharged seven of the protesters, and on Thursday, October 24, 4 extra people have been launched after the state dropped the fees towards them.
Source: GNA
