From Della Russel Ocloo, Tema
THE Tema District Magistrate Court has remanded four persons into prison custody for allegedly clubbing a security officer of the Ghana Ports and Harbours Authority (GPHA) to death.
The suspects, Francis Ntim, 26, Kofi Boadu, 34, Augustine Emmanuel, 25 and Mohammed Tahiru, 31, all residents of Tema Newtown are to reappear on the October 22 to answer a substantive case of murder filed against them. A fifth person, known only as Nazia, was said to be at large.
Prosecuting, Inspector Assan told the court that the deceased, Cletus Adudgri, a senior security officer with the GPHA, while on a night duty at the inner gate of the Fishing Harbour, was attacked by the suspects on September 14 at about 3:15am.
According to her, the deceased officer was said to have, earlier in the day, denied the suspects access to the harbour on suspicion that they were involved with a group of residents who had organised a series of demonstrations in the past months against officials of the GPHA in respect of the lease of a parcel of land belonging to the authority to a private developer.
She said the suspects who felt humiliated by the deceased’s act later attacked him at his duty post using clubs and other dangerous objects. He was later found in a pool of blood and rushed to the Tema General Hospital.
Inspector Assan said the deceased died the following day at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital where he was referred to for further treatment.
The presiding judge, Justice Rita Agyemang-Budu, in remanding the suspects, bemoaned the spate of lawlessness among the youth and appealed to the police to intensify their investigations into the incident.
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