The West Ada Police Command has granted a police enquiry bail to Isaac Adi Buertey Puplampu, after keeping him in police custody for unlawfully demolishing a native’s property.
The Ackwehs had pulled down a dilapidated mud house adjoining their family residence for a befitting building ahead of their late dad’s funeral and burial in October this year.
Then on Sunday, August 29, this year, when the new building had sprung up above the footing stage, the soi-disant chief, Isaac Adi Buertey Puplampu, allegedly led thugs to the site and ordered them to flatten the project.
Armed with secret videos of the unlawful demolishing without a court order, the Ackwehs reported the matter to the West Ada District Police on the same day.
The police invited the suspect to the station but, according to the former, the suspect declined it.
As the police lay patiently to arrest the self-styled chief for declining their invitation on his alleged involvement in the unlawful demolition, picked an intel on Tuesday that their ‘prey’ was at the Ada Traditional Council for a case in which natives of Hwakpo were challenging his legitimacy as the chief of the area.
Led by Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) George Aboagye, police personnel went to the traditional council where, after the day’s hearing, picked the suspect to Sege, where he was kept in custody, after taking his statement before his counsel, who had earlier represented him at the Ada Traditional Council.
Earlier communications and the video evidence in the custody of the police showed that more than two boys destroyed the Ackwehs’ property, but Isaac Puplampu, though would not mention their names and locations, told the police, during interrogation, that he ordered only two boys to hammer the building.
The West Ada Police Command granted the suspect a police enquiry bail on Wednesday, after his first day in cells on Tuesday.
In order to fast track the case, the East Ada Divisional Police Command ordered for the docket and after concluding its preliminary investigations, Chief Inspector Yussif, the CID in charge of the case at the Division, said another suspect had been picked up.
Emphasizing, he and another personnel had visited the scene at Hwakpo for first hand information to enable the Divisional Police Command prefer necessary criminal charges against the two suspects who would be arraigned before the Sege District Court, when the police complete their investigations.
By: Umar Sheriff Musah
