The court has sentenced a final year student of the Suhum Presbyterian Senior High School(PRESEC) in the Eastern region to 2 years in prison for threatening to kill his teacher.
21-year-old Abdulai Fuseini, recorded a video of himself brandishing a cutlass and threatening to behead his teacher, Foster Odei Ansong for punishing him.
“Heerh, tell Foster (the teacher) that Monday I will come to school, I learnt he is looking for me. Why? Have I stolen anything or what?, me Junior Sticker, by you have seen the machete I will slash his throat like how they slash the idols. Forking guy, I don’t know whether he is 39 or 40,” he was heard saying in the video.
Mr Foster Odei Ansong reported the student to the Suhum Police Station after he saw the video go viral and some officers were sent to arrest him while class was ongoing.
Abdulai Fuseini was convicted and slapped with two years imprisonment after he was processed and arraigned before the Suhum Circuit Court where he was found guilty.
Details of the arrest and prosecution was confirmed by Chief Superintendent Joseph Owusu of the Suhum Police Command.
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He told the press that video evidence proves that 21-year-old Abdulai Fuseini indeed threatened to cut off the head of his teacher for punishing him.
The Criminal Offence Act of Ghana states that, a person who threatens any other person with death, with intent to put that person in fear of death, commits a second-degree felony.
SOURCE: GhanaCelebrities.Com