Sunday 24th June, 2018
By Gifty
Amofa, GNA
Accra, June 24, GNA – An Accra circuit court
has convicted three persons for diverting premix fuel meant for fishermen at
Chorkor in Accra.
Benjamin Nii Quaye, Paul Dogba and Emmanuel
Kubi, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy and discharging petroleum into a
container (drums) instead of motorbike tanks.
However, the court presided over by Mr
Emmanuel Essandoh deferred the s
By Gifty
Amofa, GNA
Accra, June 24, GNA – An Accra circuit court
has convicted three persons for diverting premix fuel meant for fishermen at
Chorkor in Accra.
Benjamin Nii Quaye, Paul Dogba and Emmanuel
Kubi, all pleaded guilty to conspiracy and discharging petroleum into a
container (drums) instead of motorbike tanks.
However, the court presided over by Mr
Emmanuel Essandoh deferred the sentence till Monday, June 25.
They have been remanded into police custody.
Police Chief Inspector Maxwell Oppong told the
court that the convicts: Quaye, Dogba and Kubi are trader, driver and
unemployed in that order.
He said Chief Inspector Alfred Quashie and
General Sergeant Enoch Sarkodie Okyere are the prosecution witnesses and
stationed at the James Town Police Station.
The Prosecution said on June 14, at about 1345
hrs, police received information that the convicts were conveying a quantity of
premix fuel from Chorkor-James Town to Tema.
Police then laid surveillance and succeeded in
arresting Dogba and Kubi on board a KIA Truck with the registration number GW
789 09.
When a search was conducted on the vehicle, it
was found to contain 20 drums of premix fuel.
He said during investigations, it was revealed
that Quashie, who was in charge of the premix fuel at Chorkor, meant for
fishermen, arranged with Dogba and Kubi to send the substance away.
After investigation, they were charged and
placed before the court.
GNA