The Circuit Court in Bolgatanga has remanded into police custody a popular small-scale miner in the Upper East Region, Zongdan Boyak Kolog, popularly known as Polo, for his alleged involvement in various crimes, including threatening to kill a chief.
Polo was arrested together with some armed bandits whom he had reportedly hired from Bawku to help him fight and protect a mining concession in Gbane in the Talensi District of the Upper East Region.
Among the six persons standing trial for their various roles in what was described as a horror encounter by onlookers who ran for their lives in a daylight sporadic shooting in the bustling mining community of Gbane is Baba-Yaro Zumah, a self-acclaimed anti-corruption fighter in Bolgatanga.
The others are Atta Yin-mason, Yussif Mbelma-trader, Moro Razak, also a trader, and Belba Abdulai, an unemployed resident of Bawku.
