Two farmers jailed two years for poaching

A Cape Coast Magistrate Court, presided over by Mr Peter Asare-Duah, on Wednesday sentenced two farmers from Amoaben near Kruwa to 24 months imprisonment in hard labour for poaching in the Kakum forest reserve.

Stephen Nuamah, alias Mallam and Kwabena Amoako, alias Gramah, both pleaded guilty to four counts of entering a wildlife reserve, hunting, possessing arms without authority and threat of death and were jailed 18 and six months respectively.

Prosecuting, Inspector Reuben Dzogbeti told the court that on January 17 this year at about 11 pm, the Kakum Forest Guards on their usual patrol spotted the light of hunting lamps and traced it.

He said when they got closer, they saw the two men hunting in the forest and ordered them to stop, but they took to their heels.

Inspector Dzogbeti said the Guards chased the convicts to a point when Nuamah called one of them by his name and threatened to kill him if he did not stop chasing them.

He said sensing danger, the Guard took cover behind a tree and immediately, heard gunshots from the direction of the two farmers, but his colleagues overpowered them and handed them over to the Police.