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Chief
sentenced to 15 years for stealing family gold
Fiapre, Dec. 24, Ghanadot/GNA - A Circuit
court at Fiapre near Sunyani on Friday sentenced Nana Boahen
Kokor Ankobeahene of Kwatire in the Sunyani West District,
to 15 years imprisonment for stealing quantities of gold,
belonging to the Ankobea family of Awuah Domasi.
The 71-year old chief pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing
and was sentenced accordingly, but his accomplice Kofi
kyeremeh, a 24-year old priest who pleaded not guilty, was
discharged after the court’s investigations found him not
guilty to the charge.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Kingsley Baafi told the
court presided by Mr Yaw Osei Benjamin that complainants in
the case are family heads and queen mother of the Ankobea
family of Awuah Domasi.
He said in June 2007, Kyeremeh informed Nana Kokor that
“through his powers he had detected that one of the elders
now deceased had buried quantities of gold ore in a certain
room in the Ankobea family house at Kwatire”.
He said the chief and the priest armed themselves with some
working implements and went to dig the gold ore without the
knowledge of the family members.
The prosecutor said Nana Kokor after digging the gold took
it to his house at Odumase to take care of it.
Chief Inspector Baafi said the complainants got hint of it
and reported the matter to the police for the arrest of the
chief and the priest.
The accused person admitted the offence and told the police
that after digging, the spirit of the priest whisked the
gold away, and before it could return the family has to
perform some rituals, he added.
GNA
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