By Gifty Amofa
Accra, July 03, GNA – The Amasaman Circuit Court has granted a GHC50,000.00 bail with two sureties to a man over an alleged assault.
Ebenezer Katey has denied the charge.
He was ordered by the Court presided over by Justice Enid Marful-Sau, a High Court Judge with additional responsibility at the Circuit Court, to return on July 10, 2025.
Police Chief Inspector Frederick Awuah-Ansah giving the facts, said Madam Mary Adom, a Prophetess and the Complainant, was the General Overseer of
Apostle Pentecostal Ministries located at Kwaku Panfo whereas Emmanuel Katey alias “Coded,” the accused person, was a mason who resides at Ashamoah.
He said in 2015, complainant purchased four plots of land situated at Kwaku Panfo from one Kpakye Quartey at GHC22,000.00 for the construction of a church building.
Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah said the Complainant also acquired all relevant documents covering the said land.
On April 28, 2025 at about 1030 hours whilst complainant and her workers were on the land, digging foundation for the church building, Katey and his accomplices namely “Tension,” Favour and Agbaa now at large, armed with a pair of scissors, wielding cutlasses, violently attacked complainant and the workers on the land now, witnesses in this case, the Court heard.
Prosecution said Katey then assaulted the complainant with his waist belt when she brought out her mobile phone to make a telephone call for assistance. He also took away her mobile phone.
Chief Inspector Awuah-Ansah said a witness who secretly did a video recording of the incident was assaulted by Katey, the accused person and his accomplices when they caught him.
The witness however managed to escape with his mobile phone and reported the incident to the Tentibian Police for assistance.
Police said the case was still under investigation.
GNA
Edited by Samuel Osei-Frempong