TWENTY-FOUR people who were arrested for engaging in violence during the recent chieftaincy dispute at Krobo-Odumase in the Lower Manya District were on Wednesday granted bail by the Odumase circuit court.
The accused persons were first remanded by the court on November 20, this year for breaching public peace that resulted in gunshots in which six persons sustained various degrees of injury.
They were granted bail in the sum of GH¢10,000 each with two sureties.
The release of the accused persons came when the prosecutor, Chief Inspector Emelia Kessie Ebeheakey, prayed the court to warn them to be of good behaviour and desist from engaging in acts that could stir up violence in the area.
The court, presided over by Mr Asamah Kwasi Asiedu, consequently cautioned the accused persons to comport themselves while on bail, failure of which the bail would be revoked.
The suspects, who are yet to be charged, are to reappear before the court on December 22, 2009, while investigations into the chieftaincy dispute continue.
According to the facts of the case, the suspects were arrested when some youth joined opposing royal families in the Piengwa chieftaincy dispute and clashed with youth supporting the incumbent chief, Nene Tetteh Zogli III, at the Yokwenor Palace on November 20, 2009.
The prosecutor said the enstoolment of Nene Zogli three years ago had been opposed by the three royal families — the Zogli Kwabla We, the Angmortey Zogli We and the Tetteh Akora We — who had called for his destoolment, since he was not a royal but rather a “Sipim”, a king maker.
She said the three factions set up a committee that confirmed that the chief was not a royal.
They petitioned the Paramount Chief of Manya Krobo, Nene Sackitey, against the enstoolment of Nene Zogli as the chief of the Piengwa Division, but Nene Sackitey did not approve of their call for the sitting chief’s destoolment.
Angered by the disapproval by the paramount chief, the three opposing royal families, going by the findings of the committee, insisted on destooling Nene Zogli.
According to her, the police received reports that the three opposing factions had confined one Staff Sergeant Martin Odjidja of the 37 Military Hospital to be installed but Nene Zogli confronted them at the main palace, resulting in the gunshots in which six persons from the opposing royal families sustained injuries.
She said the police immediately intervened and arrested the youth belonging to the three opposing royal families and those who attempted to destool Nene Zogli without notifying the police.
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