{"id":336169,"date":"2017-07-13T11:35:33","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336169"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:35:33","slug":"13-delta-force-members-case-adjourned-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=336169","title":{"rendered":"13 Delta Force members’ case adjourned again"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Kumasi Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has adjourned to August 8, 2017 the case involving thirteen (13) members of pro- New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force.<\/p>\n

A representative for the prosecutor in the case, C\/Inspt, Hannah Acheampong, pleaded with the court presided over by Her Honor Mary Nsenkyire for an adjournment because the prosecutor, ACP Okyere Darko, was on leave.<\/p>\n

The court at a previous hearing had adjourned the case to today, July 13 because the Attorney General advised that they conduct further investigations into the case.<\/p>\n

Background<\/strong><\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”mezauB65CcFnJ86yCbPBInDS1J4nsFRz”]The 13 were arrested after they stormed the office of the Ashanti Regional Security Coordinator and allegedly assaulted him in the process.<\/p>\n

They subsequently escaped<\/strong><\/a><\/span> from a Kumasi Circuit Court\u2019s custody after some of their members sparked confusion when they were arraigned and charged with conspiracy to assault a public officer and causing unlawful damage.<\/p>\n

The 13 suspects have already been fined GHc 2,400<\/strong><\/a><\/span> each, and have been made to sign a bond of good behaviour for escaping lawful custody.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the fellow group members who aided their escape from court custody had the case against them controversially dropped.<\/p>\n

Initial reports indicated that, the Attorney General directed that the case be dropped with a Principal State Attorney, ACP Okyere Darko, saying that Gloria Akuffo had instructed the Police to stop pursuing the matter because they had insufficient evidence against the accused persons.<\/p>\n

But the government denied that it sanctioned a decision to drop the charges.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Information in a statement said that the Principal State Attorney in the case did not consult the Attorney General before dropping the charges against the accused.<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Lauretta Timah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Kumasi Circuit Court in the Ashanti Region has adjourned to August 8, 2017 the case involving thirteen (13) members of pro- New Patriotic Party (NPP) vigilante group, Delta Force. A representative for the prosecutor in the case, C\/Inspt, Hannah Acheampong, pleaded with the court presided over by Her Honor Mary Nsenkyire for an adjournment […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[5,11],"tags":[658,54,1486,3,5974,1495],"class_list":["post-336169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ashanti-region","tag-delta-force","tag-delta-force-13","tag-ghana-news","tag-kumasi-court","tag-npp-vigilante-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336169","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=336169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}