Court remands 48-year-old chief for rape

Cape Coast, May 17, GNA - A circuit court in Cape Coast on Monday remanded Nana Korsah VII, a 48-year-old Chief of Ekumfi-Ekumpoano into prison custody for allegedly raping his ex-fianc=E9e's daughter. He pleaded not guilty and would be reappear on Friday, May 21.

Giving the facts of the case, the prosecutor, Police Inspector Danie= l Agbezuhlor told the court presided over by Mr Beresford Acquah that on Ma= y 13 the victim, Adwoa Mensima, a 27-year- old tea seller in Tema visited h= er mother at Ekumfi-Ekumpoano. At about 1900 hours on Saturday, May 14, the chief known in private life as Kofi Ababu invited her to his palace and asked her to buy him fri= ed fish. The prosecutor said when Adwoa returned from the errand the chief as= ked her to send the fish to one of his rooms in the palace but to her dismay he followed up and locked the door. He said the accused then told her that he wanted to have sexual intercourse with her but she refused with the reason that her mother was his

ex-fianc=E9e. The chief then grabbed her and forcibly had sexual intercourse with her. Inspector Agbezuhlor said Adwoa informed her mother about the incide= nt, who in turn reported it to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service in Cape Coast. The victim was issued with a medical form while the chief was arrest= ed. 17 May 10