Kofi Annor, an Akim Akroso farmer,has been bonded six months to be of good behaviour or suffer a fine of GHC 300 or 12 months prison term in hard labour for using a “powerful abusive language” on a landlord.
The Akim Oda Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Albert Owusu Annor, also imposed a fine of GH¢300 on Annor, in default he would serve 18 months prison term in hard labour.
He pleaded guilty to threat of harm, Section 69 of Act 29/60.
Annor had told the landlord, Madam Josephine Ruby Amponsah that; “You this woman full of witchcraft, wait and see what I will do to you. Whenever I start farming, you come to worry me with your witchcraft.”
Police Chief Inspector Adelaide Appiakorang told the Ghana News Agency at Akim Oda that Madam Amponsah, who lives in Accra, has a 10-acre parcel of land at Akim Akroso in the Birim Central
Municipality.
She stated that the land is covered by an indenture and other relevant documents as a farmland, and that in 2003 while in Accra, one
Nana Aboagyewaa went on the land to farm without the consent of the landlord.
Chief Inspector Appiakorang said Madam Amponsah summoned Nana Aboagyewaa before an Akim Oda court, which restrained the queenmother
from accessing the land.
However, three years later, Nana Aboagyewaa defiled the court order and this time round, released part of the land to Annor for farming purposes, adding the landlord went to court again when the court ordered Annor to vacate the farmland but he refused.
The Police Chief Inspector stressed that Annor then vented his anger on Madam Amponsah, attacked her and used threatening words on her, that on March 8, this year, Madam Amponsah reported the matter to the police and Annor was arrested.
According to her, during interrogation, Nana Aboagyewaa told the police that she warned Annor not to farm on the land.