An Accra Circuit Court has remanded two persons into police custody for allegedly assaulting officials of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG) at Oyarifa during a disconnection exercise.
Mr Shadrack Adjetey Monnie, a 42-year-old building contractor and Mr Anyetei Ezekiel, a 24-year-old construction labourer, were jointly charged with causing unlawful damage and two counts of assault.
The two however pleaded not guilty to all the charges.
Presenting the case in court, Mr Paul Assibi Abariga, the prosecutor said the complainants, Mr Thomas Tetteh Yemo and Mr Evans Kwame Ofori, were both technicians from the Dodowa District Office of ECG, while the accused persons and others at large were residents of Oyarifa, Accra.
The prosecution said on May 22, 2023, the complainants were performing their lawful duties by disconnecting all ECG customers who were owing the company at Oyarifa and its environs.
It added that Mr. Monnie, one of the accused organized Ezekiel and others at large, to prevent the complainants from performing the disconnection exercise in the Oyarifa township.
The prosecution said Mr. Yemo was in the compound of a customer who owed the Company when the accused persons and their accomplices came there and ordered him to leave the premises without reason.
It said none of the accused persons lived in the said house. The prosecution said the accused persons pushed Mr Yemo who fell into dirty stagnant water, leading to damage of his Infinix mobile phone.
It said when Ofori tried to assist Yemo, the other accused persons pounced on him and beat him mercilessly.
The prosecution said Ofori forced his way out of the compound and ran towards a commercial vehicle in other to escape further beatings.
Mr. Abariga continued that, the accused persons chased Ofori, and further manhandled the technician who lost his ECG Identity card holder and a spectacle in the process.
The prosecution said the Police chanced on the scene and arrested Monnie, whilst his accomplices fled the area.
On May 26, 2023, Ezekiel was also arrested by the Ayi Mensah Police who Mr Yemo identified as one of the people who attacked and assaulted them.
The prosecution said the accused persons were handed over to the investigation unit of ECG for further action.
Police Medical Forms were issued to the complainants for treatment.
The Court presided over by Mr Samuel Bright Acquah, remanded the accused into Police custody and are to reappear today June 8, 2023.
