Some of the convicts
The Nalerigu District Magistrate Court, has convicted and sentenced 12 persons to a fine of four hundred penalty units equivalent to GH¢4, 800 each or in default, spend 18 months imprisonment over land dispute in Gbalo near Chereponi in the North East Region.
The convicts are Sulemana A. Mumin, Salifu Abdulai, Sulemana Seidu, Alidu Munkaila, Adam Naaba, Alhassan Nasoma, Bawa Yakubu Ibn Mohammed, Iddrisu Ibrahim, Bawa Salisu , Imoro Bamor, Adam Nasoma and Abdulai Yussif.
They were on April 9, 2025, convicted by the court on two counts of conspiracy to commit crime and causing unlawful damage.
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On July 25, 2022, the convicts who are residents of Gbalo community near Chereponi, and had a land dispute with another community called Sagong/Kukpong, mobilised and attacked the Sagong/Kukpong community, set houses and food stuff ablaze and caused damage to several properties of the Sagong/Kukpong community.
On August 24, 2022, the North East Regional Police Command, through an intelligence led operation, arrested the convicts and arraigned them before the court.
After almost a three-year trial, the District Magistrate Court, presided by His Worship Simon Kofi Bediako, found the accused persons guilty and convicted them on the two counts of conspiracy to commit crime and causing unlawful damage.
The court, accordingly sentenced them. Meanwhile, the police in the North East Region, have assured the public that, it will not relent in its efforts to bring perpetrators of violence to book and advised residents to use peaceful and legal means to resolve conflicts and disputes in their various communities.
FROM Eric Kombat, Nalerigu