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SHOCKER MAN JAILED FOR INVOKING CURSES ON A POLICEMAN

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SHOCKER!  MAN JAILED FOR INVOKING CURSES ON A POLICE MAN

Ordinarily this headline wouldn’t have gained the needed traction it is receiving now, since jailing of People for various offences  is an all-too  familiar scenario in our courts. But what has  raised eyebrows  in this case is the offence for which a young man resident in kasoa has been jailed for.

 Our courts and legal jurisprudence is one that’s  has been known to be  alien  to the admissibility of spiritual matters as evidence in court, so for a court of law to admit  invocation of curses as an offensive conduct conducive to the breach of Peace,  contraory to section 207,  of the criminal and other offences act, Act 29 is one that certainly bewilds the imagination of many legal luminaries


Social medial and Traditional media has been buzzing with wide and varied views on the matters since the news broked, Tpical of Ghanaians, especially the uninitiated in legal circles,  many People are  being excessively harsh and uncharitable to the Kasoa district court magistrate who delivered the Judgement. to many concerned Ghanaians , it is a  case of travesty of Justice that has been meted out to the Poor young man, who averred  in his statement of case Presented to the court that , he had to invoke the name of the river god  as a means of defending himself  , because he felt unduely targeted and intimidated  by the  conduct of the policeman, amongst five Passengers in a taxi cab that were stopped and searched.




Convener of Fixed the Country Movement,  Oliver Barker Vormawor who first broached the story, on social media is appealing to his colleague lawyers who are minded to join hands with him to seek Justice for the Poor young man , who barring any appeal would  unfortunately had to contend with 12 long months in Prison with hard labour. 


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