An Accra Circuit Court has granted bail in the sum of GH₵150,000 with three sureties to Samuel Yeboah, 38-year-old unemployed for alleged abetment of crime.
The court said one of the sureties should be a public servant earning not less than GH₵3,000, a month.
It will take the plea of Bismark Adu Odame, a 31-year-old Miner, Yeboah’s accomplice, accused of defrauding by false pretences.
The court presided over by Mrs Kizita Naa Koowa Quarshie adjourned the case to November 8, 2022.
Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Fuseini Yakubu told the court that the complainant was Nana Ekow Freeman, a media consultant residing in Komenda in the Central Region, while Odame, resided in Akwatia in the Eastern Region with Yeboah also a resident of Akim-Oda in the Eastern Region.
The prosecution said in March 2021, the complainant received a phone call from Odame through a Vodafone number, and introduced himself as Commissioner of Police, Mr. Alex George Mensah, from the National Police Headquarters Accra.
It said Odame allegedly informed the complainant that he had been assigned to help NPP members to be recruited into the Ghana Police Service and asked him to submit names of party members and their contacts to him.
The prosecution said Odame asked the complainant to task each prospective applicant to pay cash in the sum of GH₵ 3,000.00 for documentation and other processing fee.
It said the complainant submitted names of 47 people to Odame with payment of…
