Three farmers aged between 69 and 28 years have been granted GH₵300,000 bail by an Accra Circuit Court after pleading not guilty to the charges of conspiracy to commit a crime and fraudulent translation of land.
Nii Tettey Ayikai, alias Numo Ali, 69, Daniel Tettey 28, and Edward Laryea also known as Okomfo, 49, secured the bail on Thursday 18th January, 2024.
His Honour, Samuel Bright Acquah, the presiding judge, ordered that the accused persons provide three sureties, each one of which must be justified and adjourned the case to February 12, 2024.
Before the adjournment, the court was told by the prosecuting officer, Superintendent Augustine Yirinkye that one Shantel Iddrisu, an Estate Developer and resident of Kasoa is the Complainant.
The accused persons on the other hand live and work at Danchira, in the Greater Accra region.
In the year 2020 the accused persons offered a parcel of land situated at Danchira to their agent, Abdul Hanan Abdul Rahman, to sell.
In the same year, the accused persons’ agent sold 12 plots out of the said land to one Asubonteng Kwadwo Asiedu, a witness in the case, who acquired same on behalf of his two brothers, Yaw Ansu Gyeabour and Kwasi Ansu Gyeabour, domiciled in the United States of America.
The agent issued indentures over the land in the name of his company, Hanash and Sons Construction to the witness, after which the accused persons collected a digging fee from the witness and supervised the construction of a fence wall, as well as single rooms with toilets on each plot of the land.
In the latter part of February 2023, the accused persons sold four plots from the witness’s land to the complainant. The witness reported the matter to the Danchira Police, where the accused persons were arrested, and stated that their agent was the one who sold the land to the witness on their instructions, but the agent had run away with part of the money.
As a result, they have to regularise the witness’s document for an amount of GH¢72,000.00 but the witness paid GH¢40,000.00 through the Danchira Police, which the accused persons received and issued a receipt.
The balance, GH¢32,000.00, was deposited with the Police for the accused person to collect after preparing the documents. After hearing this, the complainant also lodged a complaint at the Regional CID, Accra and the accused persons were arrested.
The accused persons admitted having granted the same land to the agent, witness and Complainant, but failed since 2020, to allocate another land the complainant and regularize the document for the witness although they agreed to do so.
After investigation, the accused persons were charged with the offences and brought before the court.
