From Collins Agyekum-Gyasi, Kumasi.
A 41-year-old unemployed, Mohammed Aminu, who posed as a Bureau of National Investigation (BNI) Operative in the Kumasi Metropolis was remanded in prison custody when he was arraigned before the Kumasi Circuit One Court presided over by Mr Justice E. Amo-Yartey, on Thursday.
He has been charged with fraud and impersonation. His plea was not taken and he will reappear before the court on February 8, 2010.
Aminu, who has been introducing himself as a staff from the BNI, did same to Lance Corporal Fuseni Konlan at the Asawase Police Station and requested the Corporal to assist him to arrest the complainant in the case who called at the station to lodge a complaint against the accused.
Aminu, who was in the company of one Joe and Sunsum arrested the complainant at Dichemso, handcuffed him and said that he was wanted for his involvement in the Bawku crisis so the policeman should help them to send the man to the BNI office at Ahodwo Roundabout, Kumasi.
The prosecutor, Chief Inspector Nana C. K. Fosu, said the Lance Corporal who was on guard duty that night, alighted at the Suame Roundabout and went to his duty point.
He said after the policeman had left, the accused and his accomplices held the complainant captive in a taxicab and refused to allow his (complainant) relatives know where they had taken him to and rather demanded a ransom of GH¢5,000.00 before he would be released.
Nana Fosu said after a marathon negotiation the accused person collected GH¢1,200 behind the Jubilee House, Ghana Commercial Bank at Suame before he regained his freedom at about 2.30 pm.
The complainant, however, lodged a complaint with the Ashanti Regional BNI who managed to arrest Aminu on December 31, 2009.
Nana Fosu said the accused admitted his offence and was still assisting the police in their investigation.
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