4 Ghana Immigration Service (GIS) officers and two different individuals have been remanded in police custody by the Wa District Justice of the Peace’s Court docket, over the demise of a farmer on the Piree-Kaangu within the Higher West Area.
The 4 GIS officers, – Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, 36, Assistant Immigration Management Officer II (AICO) Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, 22, AICO II Nkrumah Alex, 33, and AICO II Philip Oppong, 28, stationed at Nadowli, had been charged with homicide.
The others, Pogee Antaa Julius, 38, a Unit Committee Chairman of Noro Electoral Space, and a farmer, and Logu Seidu, 49, a relative of Patrick Banoebuuri, the deceased, had been additionally charged with abetment of crime to wit homicide.
The Court docket, presided by Mr Maxwell Maxibrian Titriku, remanded the six suspects to help the police in investigations into the circumstances that led to the demise of the sufferer.
The details of the case presented to the courtroom indicated that Patrick Baoebuuri, now deceased, was arrested for allegedly stealing 18 sheep by the members of the group, and 14 of the animals had been retrieved, and he was let loose.
Nevertheless, Pogee Antaa Julius, and Logu Seidu led a bunch from Naro to apprehend Patrick Baoebuuri once more in his home at Piree-Kaangu for failing to professionalduce the remaining 4 sheep.
The sufferer was handed over to Senior Inspector Adjei Boadi Philip, AICO II Abdulai Rawuf Abubakar, AICO II Nkrumah Alex, and AICO II Philip Oppong, who had been on obligation on the GIS Checkpoint at Naro, to be “disciplined”.
The courtroom additionally heard that the 4 GIS officers “obtained Baoebuuri Patrick, who was in good well being, and took him via ‘frog bounce’ throughout which the sufferer died.
The courtroom was advised that the police conveyed the physique to Upper West Regional Hospital for preservation and post-mortem.
The case has been adjourned to Monday, March 17.
In the meantime, the household of Patrick Banoebuuri had appealed to the Inspector Common of Police, Dr George Akuffo Dampare, and different stakeholders to make sure justice prevailed.
Mr Richard Banoebuuir, a brother of the deceased, cautioned influential personalities within the nation, particularly the Higher West Area, to desist from interfering within the case. —GNA
