Mahama’s poster destroyer granted bail

A Berekum Circuit Court has adjourned to June 8, a case involving a teenager who defaced posters of President John Mahama in the Brong Ahafo Region.

Accra100.5FM’s Kweku Effah, reporting, said the accused, Daniel Frempong, 17, a first-year high school student, pleaded not guilty to the offence when he appeared before Justice Osei Kofi Amoako..

The accused allegedly led two mentally challenged persons in the dead of night to deface the posters of the governing party’s presidential candidate in the area. They also set the poster alight. Frempong, who told the court that both his parents were supporters of the NDC and Mr Mahama, said he embarked on the action to protest against the hardships wrought on him and his family by the current government.

He said his parents had increasingly found it difficult to pay his fees and feed the family due to rising cost of living and lack of opportunities.

The court granted him a GHS1,500 bond, and ordered the parents to produce his birth certificate to ascertain his real age.