THE Ashaiman Circuit Court has remanded 28 suspects arrested in connection with last Friday’s incident at Tema Newtown, where irate youth went on the rampage and destroyed property running into millions of Ghana cedis.
They are Richter Nii Armah Amarfio, Nii Adjei Kraku, George Bruce, Charles Kwame Essel, Paa Kwesi, Kwame Ayiah, Isaac Tawiah, Vincent Agya Kally, Robert Oppong, Kwadwo Mensah, Isaac Nana Essuman, Mark Addo, Ato Kwame, Ashietey Larbi and Emmanuel Ansah.
The rest are Ekow Mensah, Mensah Brabba, Daniel Mahama Martey, Kwesi Ansah, Kwamena Anso Nyamekye, Theophilus Boakye, Isaac Armah, Jonathan Klottey, Tetteh Elvis, Nii Tetteh Kwamena, Adjei Quaye, Adjei Tawiah, John Nketiah and James Koranteng.
Four juveniles, Elvis Tetteh, James Koranteng, Isaac Amarh and Kofi Annan, were, however, granted bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 with two sureties each to be justified.
The suspects are to reappear on September 30, 2010.
The prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police Ms Enyonam Klu, told the court that the suspects were among some irate youth who went on the rampage at the Tema Fishing Habour attacking officials of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA), who were on duty at the Toa yard, which had been leased out to a private developer for the construction of a palm oil refinery.
She said the accused persons, wielding locally manufactured guns, machetes and other dangerous implements, set ablaze three offices belonging to the GPHA, a bulldozer and a Nissan pickup parked on the premises.
The accused, she said, also ransacked the offices of the Tema Traditional Council, where they vandalised the palace, smashed glass doors and burnt two pickups and a Toyota 4Runner belonging to the council.
The plea of defence counsel, Messrs Adomako Acheampong and Mike Oquaye Jnr, for bail for the accused was refused by the court on the grounds that they might interfere with investigations.
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