Covid-19: Six Persons Fined GH₵14,400 Each for Attending Party

An Accra Circuit Court has today, Tuesday, April 21, 2020, fined six persons GHS14,400 (1,200 penalty units) each for violating the restrictions law passed by  government to curtail the community spread of the covid-19 disease.

The Akufo-Addo led government placed a ban on public gatherings and partially locked down some areas in Greater Accra, Kumasi, and Kasoa.

The six who are all males according to the police violated the directive and attended a party on the 18th of April 2020.

In default, the six convicts will each serve five years in prison.

All the six pleaded guilty to conspiracy not to comply with restrictions imposed by the Imposition of Restrictions Act, 2020 (Act 1012) and failure to comply with Act 1012.

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In the facts presented to the court by the prosecution, the six were part of about fifty people who attended the party at Teshie, First Junction.

According to police, they (police) went to the venue upon a tip-off and managed to arrest the six people who took to their heels alongside the other persons at the party.

Giving her judgment, the judge Efia Owusua Appiah explained her decision is to serve as a deterrent to other people.

The Ghana Police Service had earlier disclosed that some 406 persons have been arrested for violating the partial lockdown directive and the ban on public gatherings.

This was disclosed by ACP Lydia Donkor, Head of Legal and Prosecution, Accra Regional Police Command today, Tuesday, April 14, 2020, at a press briefing.