The State on Thursday introduced a brand new cost in opposition to Oliver Barker-Vormawor, chief of the Democracy Hub anti-galamsey protest group. Initially, Barker-Vormawor was charged with stealing keys to a police towing car.
During the court docket proceedings, Nana Ama Adinkra, a Senior State Attorney, knowledgeable the court docket of a brand new cost sheet. She withdrew the earlier cost sheet and changed it with an up to date one.
In the brand new cost sheet, the state dropped the theft cost in opposition to Barker-Vormawor and as an alternative charged him with “intentionally turning off the ignition of a police towing truck.”
Four others related to the matter have been discharged because the state dropped expenses in opposition to them.
Those discharged embrace Cedric Bansah, Emmanuel Offei, Nana Amo Mensah Prempeh, and Thomas Yeboah.
Barker-Vormawor and eight others are going through expenses of conspiracy, illegal meeting, inflicting illegal injury, offensive conduct conducive to a breach of the peace, and assault on a public officer.
They have pleaded not responsible and are presently on bail.
Just a few weeks in the past, the police arrested 53 members of the anti-galamsey protest group, Democracy Hub, for alleged lawlessness and subsequently arraigned them.
A Circuit Court in Accra had beforehand discharged seven of the protesters, and on Thursday, October 24, 4 further people have been launched after the state dropped the costs in opposition to them.
Source: GNA
