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Court fines Delta Force 13 ₵1,800 each.

By Justice Kofi Bimpeh
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The Asokwa District Court in the Ashanti region has fine 13 members of Delta Force a pro-NPP group of the tune of ₵1,800 each or in default, serve 12 months in jail.

The court presided over by Korkor Achaw Owusu has asked the 13 Delta Force members to sign a bond of good behaviour for 12 months.

The 13 pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy to commit a crime by rioting.

Their counsel, Frederick Kankam Boadu, pleaded for a non-custodial sentence for them.

The Attorney General on October 10, 2017, dropped earlier charges of conspiracy to assault a public officer, and causing unlawful damage against the Delta Force 13 and charged them with rioting.

The prosecutor, ACP Okyere Darko, told the court presided over by Her Honor Mary Nsenkyire during today’s [Tuesday] hearing that the Attorney General had withdrawn all the earlier charges.

The suspects have subsequently been rearrested, and their lawyers are securing bail for them.

The lawyer for the accused persons, Matthew Appiah, is not entirely happy with the turn of events. He maintains that his clients are innocent.

They reported themselves to the police and were fined Ghc2,400 each, and also made to sign a bond of good behaviour for escaping lawful custody.

Meanwhile, the case involving the eight (8) persons, supposedly aligned to the NPP, who stormed the court to release 13, was eventually dropped by the state for lack of evidence.

Read AG drops charges against Delta 13.

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