MAN ARRESTED IN COURT WITH JUJU OBJECT

By Felix Engsalige Nyaaba

National Security operative at the  Supreme Court yesterday arrested  a jujuman and another young man  suspected to be a fraudster.

The Juju man, identified as  Amadu Abdallah was arrested in the early hours of yesterday when he attempted to enter the Media gallery of the Supreme Court   and with talisman and some awful materials in brown and red colors suspected to be charming substance known in the local   terms as “juju”.

The second suspect was a young man whose names was not immediately identified at the time of the arrested on suspicion that he was a fraudster

According to the security operatives, Abdallah managed to gained access to the media gallery of the court, but his demeanor and behavior while sitting in the court room raised suspicion and he was ordered together with journalist to leave the court room for further checking at the gate.

However, when he was asked to enter through the security alarm gate, he was rejected three times by the machines therefore made the security to suspect that he was carrying material that do not allow in the court.

Following that, Abdallah was arrested and during a search conducted on him, revealed some materials including a talisman and some red and brown substance tied together suspected to be “juju” in   the pocket of his smock.

The security said, though Mr. Abdullah in possessed of one of the accredited special duty identification cards, he failed to tell the security which agency or department he was coming from.

When the ID card was sent to the Director of Communication of the Judicial Services, Mrs. Grace Tagoe, she confirmed the authenticity of the ID Cards, but wondered how Abdullah came into the possessing of the card.

 Abdallah was later handed over to the police at the court where his statement was taking and he was asked to the report at the Accra regional CID for further interrogation.

The Communication Director of the judicial services, according to the security was also asked to assist the police in investigation on the issue and ensure that ID cards are not issued to persons who are not under their control or cannot be identified.

In the case of the fraudster, the police said he was arrested upon his suspicious movement and enquiring of some personalities who cannot be identified at the court.

According to the police, the young man  who was in possessing with several bank ID Cards was going around the  court premises asking people for some persons names they could not identified.

However, matters became worst for him, when one police lady identified him as one among some young men who attacked him sometime ago in attempt to rob or defraud her.

He was therefore taking to the Ministry police station in Accra for further investigation.

Caption: Adamu Abdallah, the Jujuman in a smock been interrogated by security operatives, and the young fraudster