The case of the eight members of the pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force, has been adjourned to 17th of May 2017.<\/p>\n
The eight are facing trial at the Kumasi Circuit Court 2, for disturbing a court session, resisting arrest, and freeing\u00a0the 13 Delta Force members who were in lawful custody.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”wGLgkFjeqMcNRGGdmkdHMgP5ZMhrOJaS”]The prosecutor, ACP Okyere Darko, on Tuesday, pleaded that ample time be given them for further investigations.<\/p>\n
Lawyer for the accused persons, Gary Nimako, has argued that his clients are not guilty because they were not arrested at the scene of the crime.<\/p>\n
Her Honor, Justice Patricia Amponsah, ordered that the 8 reappear before court on the 17th of May.<\/p>\n
8 Delta Force court raiders granted bail<\/strong><\/p>\n They eight were last week granted bail by the Kumasi Court.<\/p>\n The bail conditions was GHc 10,000 each with two sureties, and they were also to report to the police CID on Tuesday, April 18, before 3:00 pm.<\/p>\n The 13 Delta Force members who were freed, were facing charges for raiding the Ashanti Regional Coordinating Council and assaulting its coordinator.<\/p>\n The 13 have since been granted bail, and are to reappear before the court on the 20th of April, 2017, after charges of conspiracy to assault a public officer and causing unlawful damage.<\/p>\n They were also granted bail of GHc 10,000 each, with two sureties. Meanwhile, the 13 have already been tried for escaping from court.<\/p>\n They were each fined Ghc2,400, and made to sign a bond of good behaviour for six months.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The case of the eight members of the pro-New Patriotic Party vigilante group, Delta Force, has been adjourned to 17th of May 2017. The eight are facing trial at the Kumasi Circuit Court 2, for disturbing a court session, resisting arrest, and freeing\u00a0the 13 Delta Force members who were in lawful custody. [contextly_sidebar id=”wGLgkFjeqMcNRGGdmkdHMgP5ZMhrOJaS”]The prosecutor, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":309781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[54,3,5974],"class_list":["post-311777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-delta-force","tag-ghana-news","tag-kumasi-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=311777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=311777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=311777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=311777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}