Ninety-year old man remanded for psychiatric examination

An Accra Circuit Tribunal chaired by Mr Mohammed Nabon on Wednesday remanded a 90-year old man to a psychiatric hospital for thorough examination. He would reappear on December 20.

The accused, Adamu Busanga, a pensioner, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully causing harm by inflicting severe cutlass wounds on one Issah Jabre, 64.

The Police told the court that about three weeks ago the accused person claimed that he had not received his pension allowance for about four months and, therefore, travelled from Bawku to Accra to rectify the problem at the Pension House.

After rectifying the problem, Busanga went to Nima to lodge with his younger brother but the brother had no suitable place for him to sleep. The brother, therefore, took him to the complainant to stay with him.

At about 2am on November 5, without any provocation, the accused inflicted cutlass wounds on the complainant.

He was taken to the Police Hospital for treatment but was referred to the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital the following day. Busanga admitted the offence but said he did not know what came over him.