Court convicts former police officer for false pretense

The Tarkwa Circuit Court has remanded twelve persons into prison custody for causing extensive damage to the railway track between Akyem and Bonsawire in the Western Region.

They are Dennis Adom, a driver; Larri Koku, a farmer; Ali Asoma, unemployed; Nurudeen Kobina, a vulcanizer; and Jonathan Ayandor, a pastor.

The rest are Alex Kofi Acquah, Kwame Simon, Isaac Arhin, Lambon Moyisi, Jude Azumah, Yenderi Mombe, and Daniel Combat, all illegal miners.

They are currently being charged with conspiracy, undertaking mining operations without a license, and causing unlawful damage, but their pleas have not been taken as the investigation is still underway.

They would reappear before the court on October 22, 2025.

Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Samuel Ahiaboc, prosecuting, told the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu that the complainant, Nathaniel Fiifi Henson,was the area manager of the Railway Company Limited at Tarkwa.

He said on September 29, 2025, the complainant, accompanied by five witnesses in the case who were workers of the company, made a routine visit to the railway track between Akyem and Bonsawire.

ASP Ahiaboc said that after the complainant and the witnesses had walked about four kilometres, they discovered that some intruders had illegally mined various places under the old railway track, and they reported the matter to the police.

The Ashaiman District Court has convicted 54-year-old Kofi Boakye Frimpong, a former public officer, for falsely pretending to be a police officer in active service.  

The court, presided over by Mr. Derick Pardden Eshun, convicted him on his own plea of guilty to the charge of falsely pretending to be a public officer (police officer).

He pleaded for leniency.

The court, however, deferred his sentencing, remanding him into custody to reappear on October 14, 2025.

 Inspector Henry Nartey Tetteh, prosecuting, said the complainants are police officers of Zenu-Attadeka MTTD who arrested and sent to the station the accused person.

They reported that on September 17, 2025, at about 09:00 hours, while at their duty point at the Zenu Star Fuel Station, they stopped Frimpong, fully dressed in a tactical black long-sleeved police uniform with a chief inspector’s rank badge.

The prosecution added that the officers, suspecting that he might not be a police officer, engaged him briefly in a conversation, indicating that during the interaction, Frimpong suddenly jumped onto a motorbike and instructed the rider to speed off.

 This, the prosecution noted, heightened their suspicion, and after a chase, he was arrested and sent to the police station.

 The facts stated that, upon interrogation, it was established that Frimpong is a dismissed chief inspector who has relocated to Ashaiman and is still wearing a police uniform and holding himself out as a police officer.

The accused person was subsequently charged with the offence while the investigation continued.