The Wa District Magistrate Court has sentenced the Assembly Member for the Gbache Electoral Area in the Wa West District, 28-year-old Seidu Peter Kaadaare to fourteen months imprisonment for attempted rape and unlawful entry.
The court, presided over by Mr. Maxwell Maxibrain Titriku sentenced Kaadaare to hard labour in prison when he was found guilty.
According to the prosecutor, Kaadaare committed the offences under the influence of an evil spirit.
The Regional Public Relations Officer of the Upper West Regional Police Service, Chief Inspector Gideon Ohene Boateng, disclosed this to the media in an interview in Wa.
“The accused person, in his caution statement to the police, admitted the offence in the presence of an independent witness and further stated that he did that under the influence of an evil spirit,” he said.
“He was charged with the offences of attempt to commit a crime, to wit rape, and unlawful entry after further investigations.”
Chief Inspector Boateng said the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU) of the Regional Police Command, received a report from the complainant, a female basic school teacher, aged 32, that the accused, who resided at Kambali, a suburb of Wa, indecently assaulted her in March 2022.
“While the matter was under investigation, the accused person developed an attitude of consistently knocking on the complainant’s door at midnight so he was warned to distance himself from the complainant and her family by the police.”
On the 14th of April 2022, at about 2250 hours, while the complainant was asleep in her bedroom with her front door unlocked, the accused person unlawfully entered the complainant’s room with the intention to have sexual intercourse with her,” Chief Inspector Boateng said.
“The complainant screamed for help, drawing the attention of other co-tenants, who rushed out from their rooms and saw both the accused person and the victim on the victim’s veranda, where they rescued the victim,” he stated.
The complainant subsequently reported the matter to the police, which led to the arrest of the accused person.
