Journalists & Banker In Wee Drama

Patrick Osei Agyemang alias Countryman Songo, a popular sports presenter at Asempa FM, his accomplice, Bismark Selorm Brown, an ETV Morning show host and Franklin Ayensu, another suspect believed to be a banker, were yesterday put before an Accra Fast Track High Court after they were arrested with substances suspected to be Indian hemp, popularly called wee.

The accused were in a court presided over by Justice P. Ofori-Atta but the matter could not be heard because there was no state attorney to prosecute the case.

The facts before the judge were the quantity found on the presenters and the circumstances leading to their arrest.

They were taken to court by the police investigators and due to the fact that there was no prosecuting attorney, their pleas were not taken and so the facts of the matter were not read either.

An investigator at the Nima Police Station, Thomas Prempeh, told Justice Ofori-Atta that the Attorney General’s office was yet to assign a prosecutor to the case and that details had already been passed on to the High Court.

Justice Ofori-Atta granted the accused persons bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 each with a surety and ordered them to re-appear in court on December 9, 2011.

Victor Kwadwoga Adawudu, counsel for the accused, was in court.

It would be recalled that the police, on Monday, arrested the suspects in a swoop at North Ridge, near the Alisa Hotel in Accra, with some substances suspected to be marijuana.

The police were said to be on routine patrol duties when they saw some suspected criminals and swooped on them and in the event rounded up the suspects in the company of five others.

The suspects were initially taken to the Nima Police Station and were later sent to the Police Headquarters where their urine was tested, after which they were yesterday taken to court.

Countryman Songo is a presenter who is very popular with taxi drivers for his 1pm daily sports programme on Asempa Fm dubbed ‘Fire for Fire’.