NDC Chairman granted bail

The Half Assini Magistrate Court   has granted GH¢500,000.00 bail to Gideon Konibah, the Jomoro Constituency Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and his accomplice with two sureties to be justified for alleged fraud. 
  
Konibah and Augustine Ofori Andoh, Deputy Constituency Secretary of the NDC are facing a provisional charge of defrauding under false pretence and their pleas have not been taken and they would reappear on Wednesday April 12. 
  
Prosecuting, Police Detective Sergeant Richard Amoah, said from June to August last year, the accused persons collected GH¢87,000.00 from 13 fishermen in the area under the pretext of supplying them with outboard motors but failed to do so. 
 
He said all efforts by the victims to retrieve their monies failed when the accused person could not provide the outboard and therefore lodged a complaint with the Police resulting in his arrest and accomplice. 

Source: GNA