Seven Menzgold protesters arrested granted bail

The Asokore Mampong District Court in the Ashanti Regional has granted bail to seven customers of Gold dealership firm, Menzgold after the police arrested them for breaching the public order act.

The suspects will reappear in court on January 22, 2019.

All six suspects appeared in court except for one of them, Jafta Agyemang.

The other suspects are; Eric Kwakye, Vivian Agyei, James Abubakar, Arnold Tamakloe, Adams Osman and Kofi Agyarko.

The six suspects who appeared in court pleaded not guilty to the charges of violating the public order act.

The court presided over by Her Worship Mrs. Portia Molly Anafo Salia granted bail to the suspect with a sum of GHc5, 000 each.

The lawyer for the seven customers, Kwame Owusu Sekyere, told the court that his clients were not part of the protest, but were there as customers of the firm to get their locked up investments released to them.

Chairman of the Concern Customers of Menzgold, Isaac Baffour said they would continue to demand what is due them.

Background

The Ashanti Regional Police Command arrested seven persons on Tuesday after they defied police orders not to embark on a demonstration exercise.

The protesters burnt car tyres and blocked the Amakom road leading to Adum.

Their action was to protest their locked up investment and the supposed silence of President Akufo-Addo and Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II in intervening in the matter.

But the police, whose order for a cancellation of the demonstration was defied by the demonstrators had to move in to disperse the about 50 angry demonstrators and clear the roadblock.

But the police, whose order for a cancellation of the demonstration was defied by the demonstrators had to move in to disperse the about 50 angry demonstrators and clear the roadblock.

ASP Godwin Ahianyo, the Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer in a Citi News interview, said all other persons who participated or supported the demonstration would be arrested and put before the court.

“We are doing everything possible and hopefully on Wednesday they will be sent to court. [They are] over one hundred if I am not mistaken, we are still picking them. We are not going to end now, we have some names, we have some telephone numbers. And we have people who are behind this demonstration. We will be inviting them, we will get them and we’ll also put them before court,” he said.

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By: Hafiz Tijani | citinewsroom.com | Ghana

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