By William Y. Owusu
Monday, 02 October 2006
Three persons believed to be members of a fake site plan producing a syndicate were last Friday arraigned before a circuit court in Accra.
Emmanuel Gbedemah and Malik Mensah, both draughtsmen, and James Duvor Yao, a trader, allegedly prepared about 35 site plans for developers and forged the Accra Regional Surveyor’s signature on them.
They were charged with 41 counts of conspiracy, forgery of official document, forgery of stamps, altering forged documents and possessing forged documents.
They pleaded not guilty to the charges and were each granted ¢300 million with one surety until October 27.
Chief Inspector Mary Agbozo, presenting the facts for the prosecution told the court that sometime in February, Gbedemah prepared a site plan of a plot of land at Pokuase for a developer who took it to the Regional Survey Department for verification.
"Upon examination, the regional surveyor detected that the signature representing him had been forged."
Gbedemah was subsequently lured to the Regional Surveyor’s office where he was arrested by the police and an instant search on him led to the discovery of two other forged site plans bearing the names of Michael Komla Agbonu and Nicholas Nyabah Okai.
"A further search at his Pokuase residence revealed 32 additional site plans all forged bearing various names."
Gbedemah, the prosecutor said, mentioned Mensah as the person who gave him the site plans to send for endorsement.
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