TWO POLICEMEN HOT OVER “NOKO-FIO”

By Felix Engsalige Nyaaba

Two police officers of the Ghana police services stationed at the Ashanti Region have appeared before an Accra Circuit court for allegedly defrauding thirty six persons under the pretext of assisting them to get enlistment into the police service.

 The two, Corporal Edward Bosomtwi Gyan and Sergeant George Kwesi Appiah, were granted bail in the sum of GHC60, 000 with three sureties each, one of which must be resident ofAccra.

They are facing two counts of conspiracy to defraud and defrauding contrary to the criminal offence Act 1960 of Act29, after their earlier charged sheet has been substituted to fit the degree of crime they committed.

Their accomplice, Benjamin Anobiga, a Civil Servant, is on the run and the court presided over by   Mr. Francis Obiri, has issued a bench warrant for his arrest.

They all pleaded not guilty and are to re-appear before the court on June 28, 2012.

They were said to have collected GH¢50,000 from their victims somewhere in April 2011, to help them enlist into the Ghana Police Service.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Aidan Dery, the accused persons after collecting the various sums of money from the complainants, wrote letters with the police letter head to the complainants to attend an enlistment parade at Pawlugu police training school in the Upper East Region on June11, 2011 for training.

He said when the day was due for the complainants to leave for the training at Pawlugu, the accused persons quickly send information that, the date has been changed and that they were to go on October 12, 2011.

He said that one of the complainant later found out that, the accused persons have no any influencing power to get them enlisted into the police services and that their activities was fraud.

According to DSP, Dery the complainant then demanded the refund of their money but the accused kept on deceiving them that the police administration was trying to give a date for the training.

He said that when the victims realized that they have been short-circuited, they lodged a complaint with the police who arrested the two.

He said that during investigation, the two police officers denied receiving any such monies from their victims.