An Accra high court presided over by Justice Elfreda Dankyi has sentenced a radio presenter with Power 97.9 FM, Oheneba Boamah Bennie, to 14 days in prison.
Radio XYZ reported that the court also fined the Power FM broadcaster GHC3,000 at a hearing on Tuesday (8 February 2022).
In her ruling, Justice Dankyi held that Oheneba Boamah was guilty of the charge against him and that she was being light-handed in passing the sentence.
“I have been magnanimous,” the judge declared when counsel for Boamah, Victor Kojoga Adawudu, prayed the court to be charitable.
Oheneba Boamah Bennie of Power FM was detained by the police in December 2020 over a series of threats against President Akufo-Addo
Background
Oheneba Boamah Bennie was arrested in December 2020 for allegedly issuing a series of threats against the president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the police confirmed in a statement.
Boamah, the co-host of the Inside Politics Show on the Accra-based Power FM, was invited for questioning at the Criminal Investigation Department on 14 December 2020, but was subsequently detained over threats he issued during a Facebook live interaction after the results of Election 2020 went in favour of Akufo-Addo.
“The suspect, 36 years old, has been cautioned on the offenses of offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace and publication of false news, contrary to Sections 207 and 208(1), respectively, of the Criminal and Other Offences Act 1960 (Act 29),” the police said in a statement after questioning Boamah.
It added: “The suspect is being held for allegedly insulting and issuing series of threats to the President of the Republic of Ghana and Commander-in-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces, H E Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, in a video which he shared on his Facebook page.”
Source: asaaseradio
