Two men, who fought over a 43-year\u2013old woman at the premises of the Accra High Court, were on Wednesday fined Gh\u00a2 120 each\u00a0 by the Accra Circuit Court.<\/p>\n
Kofi Atakora, a former boyfriend of the woman and George Sefah, the current boyfriend of the woman, were found guilty of disturbing the peace in a public place.<\/p>\n
They will serve 20 days in jail if they fail to pay the fine.<\/p>\n
The court, presided over by Mrs. Abena Oppong Adjin-Doku, also found Atakora guilty of causing harm for pouncing on his former girlfriend during the fight.<\/p>\n
The court fined him Gh\u00a21,200 on the charge of causing harm and in default he will serve 12 months in jail.<\/p>\n
Atakora was also ordered by the court to compensate his former girlfriend with Gh\u00a2500.<\/p>\n
It seems the bad blood between the two men is far from over as they were seen pointing fingers at each other before the court delivered its judgement.<\/p>\n
Breakup<\/strong><\/p>\n Atakora, 42, was in a relationship with the woman, Elizabeth Darko, from 2004, until they broke up in 2008.<\/p>\n According to the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Kofi Atimbire, the two former lovers had not been on good terms since the breakup.<\/p>\n In 2013, Atakora sued Elizabeth at the High Court on the basis that she was still in possession of some property the two acquired during their relationship.<\/p>\n Fight<\/strong><\/p>\n On February 14, 2014, Elizabeth, accompanied by her new lover, Sefah, 52, appeared before the High Court to answer the claims leveled against her by Atakora.<\/p>\n Elizabeth and Sefah waited at the corridor leading to the court room since the court was yet to start business.<\/p>\n \u201cAtakora who was in an angry mood went to them and pointed his finger at Sefah, leading to a fight between the two,\u2019\u2019 Chief Inspector Atimbire said.<\/p>\n He revealed that Atakora got a red eye while Sefah suffered a cut on his lips as a result of the fight.<\/p>\n \u201cElizabeth attempted to separate them, but Atakora pounced on her, hitting her continuously with his fist. Elizabeth sustained a deep cut on her forehead,\u2019\u2019 the prosecutor stated.<\/p>\n Chief Inspector Atimbire added that, a report was made to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of (DOVVSU) leading to the arrest of Atakora and Sefah.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n Source: Graphic Online<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two men, who fought over a 43-year\u2013old woman at the premises of the Accra High Court, were on Wednesday fined Gh\u00a2 120 each\u00a0 by the Accra Circuit Court. Kofi Atakora, a former boyfriend of the woman and George Sefah, the current boyfriend of the woman, were found guilty of disturbing the peace in a public […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":201518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[16252,3196,3,16251],"class_list":["post-392992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-corut","tag-dovvsu","tag-ghana-news","tag-graphic-online"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392992","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=392992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/201518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}