The Ho Magistrate Court has convicted and thus fined a man and his son for forcefully removing and destroying a neighbour’s sewage pipe at Ho on Tuesday 16th April 2024.
Presenting the facts of the case, Mr. Selorm Kwaku-Agbesi, an Environmental Health Officer, prosecuting for the Republic explained that John Avenorgbor consented and authorised his son Kofi Avenorgbor to forcefully remove and thus destroy a neighbour’s sewage pipe leading to a splash of faecal matter in a residential area, consequently endangering the lives of indigenes and creating a public nuisance, regarding Section 54, sub-section (a), (i) – (iii) and (c) of the Public Health Act of 2012 (Act 851).
Before the lordship H/Walbert Owusu Annor (Esq.), the accused persons were sentenced on their (own) plea of “guilty with explanation”. They are to pay Ghc 1000.00 each for the damage caused to the Environmental Health Office and pay 100 penalty units each, in default face 6 months in prison.
Because they debunked the office of Environmental Health when they ordered them to fix the pipe within 24 hours to ensure there are no further splashes of faeces in the community.
Source Hebrews Pouyeli ll Volta Forum
