FOUR elders of the Katanga Division of the Krachi Traditional Area have been jailed six months each with hard labour for breaking into the royal house and taking away some stool regalia.
The four, including a woman, were convicted by the Hohoe Circuit Court on four counts of conspiracy to commit crime, unlawful damage, unlawful entry and stealing.
They are Opanyin Kwadwo Oduni, 76, a farmer; Opanyin Osafo, 64, a driver; Benjamin Owusu, alias Kwaku Kuru, 74, a farmer, and Beatrice Boame, 56, a trader.
According to the prosecutor, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Ben Dadzie of Hohoe, Opanyin Yaw Donkor, a farmer, who is the complainant and the four convicts are all elders to Nana Diawuo Bediako II, the chief of Katanga.
According to ASP Dadzie, about 3.15 p.m. on December 7, 2007, the convicts entered the stool room and came out holding the stool sword, a black stool and other royal regalia.
The prosecutor said when Opanyin Donkor confronted them, the convicts ignored him and left with the items.
He said Opanyin Donkor reported the matter to the stool father, who later detected that the door to the stool room had been forced open.
Upon further search, the prosecutor said the following items were found missing: the black stool, two other stools, a walking stick, a sword and some traditional stones.
When the matter was reported to Nana Bediako, he referred it to the police at Katanga.
Sentencing the convicts, the presiding judge, Justice Edward Bosompim-Apenkwa, said he was being lenient because he took into consideration their ages and status, adding, however, that their behaviour was not the proper way to register their disapproval of the chief.
He sentenced them to six months each on every count to run concurrently. He also asked them to return the regalia to the chief.
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