The Agona Swedru District Magistrate’s Court has remanded four people from the Asona Royal Family of Agona Kwanyarko into police custody for allegedly conspiring to kill the family head.
The plea of Kennedy Adjie, Gyasie Oduwa also known as Joseph Koomson, Eric Frimpong and Lawrence Amoo aka Sokodie, were not taken.
The court, presided over by His Honour Isaac Appeatu, remanded them to enable the police to conduct further investigations into the matter.
Presenting the fact, Inspector Mariam Maboah, prosecuting, said an informant reported to the Ofaakor Police that three men at Agona Kwanyarko in the Central Region with sponsorship from a chief had contracted him to kill Opanyin Ebo Essandoh, the Head of Asona Royal Family.
He was also to injure anyone who may accompany Opanyin Essandoh to a site where the ‘operation’ would take place and to bring to them a bag containing land documents he had been carrying.
The informant played an audio he recorded when the transaction was ongoing to justify his report at the police station.
The Family Head, Essandoh, was later invited by the police and after the voice recorder was played, he identified the voices as persons from a faction in the family.
The case was transferred to Agona Swedru Police Command since Agona Kwanyarko is under its jurisdiction, and the informant was asked to arrange with the culprits to meet on Saturday, October 2, at Awutu Obrechire for the supposed operation, the prosecution said.
On the scheduled day, the police went and laid ambush, and when they arrived at the scene they were apprehended, the prosecutor said.
GNA