The Assembly Member for Akutereso Electoral Area in the Adansi South District of the Ashanti Region, Seth Koli, and five others have been remanded into prison custody by the Bekwai Circuit Court for timber logging in the Dampayaw Forest Reserve of the Akrofuom District.
The five other suspects are Baba Ben, Narteh Moses, Inusah Akosom, Kwadwo Akwah and Joshua Ahiable.
The suspects, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of entering a forest reserve without authority to fell trees among other charges, will reappear in court on September 4, 2023.
The prosecution officer, Detective Inspector Eric Okyere, told the court, presided over by His Honour Isaac Apeatu, that on August 15, 2023, the six suspects entered the Dampayaw Forest to cut timber. A Range Manager of the Forestry Services Division saw them and reported to the Bekwai Forestry Commission leading to their arrest.
Items retrieved from the suspects included a tractor, one chainsaw machine and three cutlasses, the prosecutor told the court.
From Frederick Danso Abeam, Bekwai
