[ 2016-07-26 ]

Maxwell Kofi Jumah

Kofi Jumah convicted; fined GHc1200
A Kumasi Circuit Court on Monday found Maxwell
Kofi Jumah guilty of causing unlawful damage to
electoral material.

Jumah, a former Member of Parliament for Asokwa
constituency in Kumasi and one-time Deputy
Minister of Local Government and Kumasi
Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) Chief Executive was
convicted along with his campaign manager, Oscar
Riches.

The Daily Guide newspaper reported that the court
presided over by Afua Adu-Amankwa sentenced Jumah
to a fine of GHc1200 or in default, spend six
months in prison.

Oscar Riches aka Ghana Beyeyie was also sentenced
to pay GHc960 or in default serve a prison term of
three months.

The court had earlier in the trial granted bail
to the two of them in the sum of GHc10,000 each
with one surety.

They were charged with two counts of causing
unlawful damage to a photo album belonging to the
Electoral Commission and resisting arrest.

Source - Graphic.com.gh

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