Story: A. Kofoya-Tetteh, Koforidua
TWO persons who are being tried at the Koforidua Circuit Court for allegedly causing fire outbreak at the Koforidua Central Market on January 27, 2008 have been granted GH¢5,000 bail each with a surety to be justified.
The two — Ebenezer Frimpong, a welder, and Kingsley Mensah, who had since been in prison custody after the incident — will re-appear before the court presided over by Mr Robert Adjei Djan on February 28.
When the case was called last Thursday, the counsel for the accused persons, Major J.S.K. Amissah (retd), pleaded with the court to grant his clients bail, since it was an unfortunate incident in which they themselves had their property burnt.
He said granting them bail would not interfere with investigations, which must be conducted on time for compensation to be paid because many people were aggrieved.
At an earlier sitting, the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) T.K. Nyadu, told the court that at about 5.30 p.m. on that fateful day, January 27, 2008, fire broke out at the Koforidua Central Market.
He said Frimpong had on that day, done some welding work on a shop at the market without putting in place safety measures, which possibly resulted in the fire outbreak that caused massive destruction in some parts of the market.
It would be recalled that fire gutted parts of the Koforidua Central Market on January 27, this year. that destroyed goods worth thousands of Ghana cedis.
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