I was too drunk to remember — Accused pleads
A scrap dealer, Ibrahim Dawaa threw an Accra courtroom into laughter when he told the court he was too drunk to remember committing the offence he had been accused of.
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Dawaa, who was charged with causing unlawful damage, pleaded not guilty and was granted bail in the sum of GH¢2,100 with one surety by the magistrate’s court, presided over by Mr James Kojo Bota.
The facts of the case as presented by Sergeant Lois Konadu were that on March 18, 2016, Robert Kofi Blankson Baidoo, an excavator operator was on his way from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle to Agbobloshie in an excavator.
The prosecutor said on the way, a witness in the case engaged the services of Baidoo to help him spread pieces of block heaped on his land to make way for a container to be used for business.
Sergeant Konadu said Baidoo proceeded to use the excavator to work until Dawaa appeared from nowhere and ordered him to stop work or pay GH¢150. Because of that, Baidoo stopped levelling the land and alighted from the excavator.
Dawaa then asked Baidoo to gather the broken blocks he had spread, but he did not comply with the order.
The prosecutor said Dawaa became offended, picked up a stone and smashed the windscreen of the excavator valued at GH¢2,100.
Inspector Konadu said but for the intervention of by-standers, Dawaa would have caused damage to the rear of the excavator with a cutlass.
